mr+noble+letter

This is my second draft.

Alwyn Mcalpine Room 23 Fairfield Intermediate Hamilton 29th of June 2009 Mr. Noble Fairfield Intermediate Hamilton Dear Mr Noble, This is the second to last letter I will be writing to you soon as I am now a year eight student. Hi my name is Alwyn this is my second year at Fairfield intermediate I have three sisters a dog and a cat and my teacher is Miss Crawford. My favourite things to do are read books, practise shooting for basketball and just hang around with my friends. My goals for this year are: reading a wider expanse of genres to increase my reading skills, which I already am doing. Expanding my number knowledge such as quick application of basic facts or place value information I am completing this goal by practising basic facts at home and joining in the PV races at school (which is this really fun place value game that we do with miss Crawford, for a warm up before the proper maths session begins). Improving my punctuation I am still having trouble with this goal which you can probably see by the state of the punctuation in this letter, even though I am trying really hard. In class right now we are learning about active schools and we are doing some spelling lessons on suffixes because most of us aren’t very good. I think we need more fundraiser programs like discos and mufti days because while helping the school get money it’s also really enjoyable for students and teachers alike. It’s also a great way to make new friends and interact with old ones when not at school. I sincerely think that we need outside basketball courts for all the kids like me who want to get a bit more practise at shooting and just to have a great time playing at lunch time. You know the bark on the playground that can really get quite painful when you’re running around in bare feet or jumping off the monkey bars we really need some kind of rubber mat instead of bark. I am going to tell you a short story of an incident on the field at lunch that includes me my friends and some random kid who I don’t know at all. My friends and I were all standing around talking when I felt something smash into the back of my head I opened my eyes a few seconds later to find myself sprawled on the ground with my friends arguing with the kid who shoulder barged me. I didn’t enjoy camp as much as I could of because I had a headache the whole way through but that didn’t stop me trying everything I could. My favourite camp experience was the orienteering because we were left to our own causes so we had to be responsible and look after ourselves. Other than my hobbies I play guitar I used to do karate. I have two cats, one dog, four guinea pigs and two chickens. I also have to deal with three extremely annoying sisters. I hope you enjoyed my letter and thank you for reading it. Yours sincerely Alwyn Mcalpine
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