Hello Greenie's Class,

This is a Goodbye, Happy Holiday Letter!

An Enormous Thank you for writing to us. It was fantastic to get your letters. We have learnt heaps of stuff about Chicago.

Here are the answers to some of the questions you asked in your letters this week.

Cross Country: This is a running course not a ski course. The course was set out on a farm. The whole school walked over to the farm. There were races for all age groups. We went up hills and down hills. We jumped over hay bales and looked out for cow poops! It was a fun day!

Diggers: A digger is a machine that comes and digs the drains. It has a bucket on the front.

Coming to School. Kids come to school by car, by bus, by bikes or by walking. No one comes in a yellow jeep!

Pigs.In New Zealand some pigs are wild and some pigs are tame. You go hunting wild pigs in the bush. You take a gun, a knife and pig dogs. We like eating roast pork. We all like the crackling.

Bagels: They are are delicious. We love them!

Floating and Sinking: We think we might try floating a pumkin in water. Some children think it will sink and and some of us think it will float.

Michael Jordan: Yes, we have heard about him. He is a really good basketball player.

Favourite Buildings: Our favourite building is Sky Tower in Auckland.We saw it when we went on camp.It has lots of lights round it and there's one red light on the top.

Behind the Cows! Sometimes when farmers round up the cows to take them to the cow shed for milking they use the farm bikes. That's what Ashley was doing "Behind the Cows"

Goodbye, Happy Holiday Greenie's Class,

From the Hikutaia Kids.