A novel idea.

In the final weeks of term one, our class (room P4) decided to dig a hole due to our interest in our class novel Holes. It started when our teacher Mr.Cope got the book out of the library and brought it back to class. After the first few chapters we were intrigued, everyday we looked forward to reading Holes wondering what would happen next. Towards the end of the book we had the idea that maybe we could dig a hole just like the characters. After finishing the book we got permission from Mrs. Lowe and made a date to dig the hole. Our Hole class was ecstatic.

The morning we started was very interesting. Everyone had their own shovel to dig with and were raring to go. Instead of digging one hole together we decided that we would do a competition between the year eights and the year sevens. At the start it was pretty easy for the year eights but then the dirt went hard and it was not so easy from then on. The year sevens struggled to keep up with the year eights because they had lots of roots in their hole to cut through. To be honest, we thought it would be much easier than it was. By lunchtime we had barely done half so Mr. Cope got us to dig the hole together. Sadly, we didn’t finish the hole but it was good fun. After we failed to finish the hole we compared our experience to the boys in the book and we had no idea how each could finish a hole by themselves in one day as we couldn't even finish one!