Learning to Write Emails

In Room One we are learning all about different types of communication, especially "Digital Communication". We have been receiving lovely emails from Nana and Grandpa Watkins which you can see on the Flat Stanley in the USA page.
Here is a copy of one of our replies that we wrote as a class.
We remembered to use good manners by addressing it to them and saying thank-you and who our email was from.

Dear Nana & Grandpa Watkins and Flat Stanley

We looked at your photos and we thought they were tremendous! Thank you for sharing them with us.

We talked about the stocks and we think:

• A horse pulls the person in the stocks (Dylan)
• Like a jail because they can’t move (Samuel)
• If someone is a baddy you put them in it so they can’t be naughty anymore (Jacob)
• During the wars you might have been in them to stop you getting hurt. (Bronlee)

Then we asked Sean because he and his mum had talked about it, he said “In the olden days when people were baddies they were put in here and other people got to throw things at them like tomatoes and eggs.”

Mrs Webb asked Room One if we should still have stocks now.
We thought:

• only one or two people would ever be naughty because it wouldn’t be very nice
• the people would feel gloomy and embarrassed and sad, maybe even scared.
• Samuel said even if someone in our class had done something naughty he wouldn’t like to throw anything at them because they are his friends

We can’t wait to hear about more adventures.

Love from
Room One