We made PIKELETS!

On Tuesday we made pikelets.

First we had to read the recipe, then we had to gather all of the ingredients,

" This is a hard word to spell said Jahq!"

"Pikelet's are my favourite food" said Zack.

"Can I mix it?" said Phoenix

"I love pancakes!" said Milo.

"For a special treat Mum lets us have these for tea" said Milo.

We melted the butter, cracked the eggs, whisked the sugar.
We measured the flour, a pinch of salt and baking powder.
Then we had to add the milk.
We poured the wet sloppy liquid into the dry flour.

The mixture went a bit lumpy!
We had to whisk it really fast until our arms hurt.
Our mixture smells delicious!

When the bubbles come to the top, it is time to turn them over.

Now we can choose what we want on top of our hot scrummy pikelets.
We had butter, jam or sprinkles...
Or all of these together!

We also made one each for all of the other kids in our class and Mrs Jones.

Lastly we used up all of our mixture to make a GIANT pancake for Mr Tucker!

Mr Tucker wants us to make pikelets again tomorrow!
He said they were delicious and he wants more with a big swirl of Golden Syrup on top next time!

Milo's Dad visits!

On Monday we had a special guest join us for our writing session, he wore a very crisp, white uniform.
His name is Simon.
Can you guess what job he does?

There is more exciting details to come on this mystery...
Stay tuned for the next instalment!

Phoenix Comic Life

Milo's Comic Life

Jahqwons Comic Life

Zacks Comic Life

Icecream Fun!

After the car wash it seemed we just had to refresh ourselves with a Frosty Boy ice cream!
The boys selected their flavour, Strawberry and Chocolate were the favourites!
Then they all laughed at getting 'brain freeze'.
Zack said " This is the best day EVER!"

The Carwash!

We decided it would be really fun to have a car wash!
And it was actually hilarious!
The boys squealed and screeched as we proceeded to be squirted, soaped, suds, engulfed in total darkness and then polished and blow dried!
Here are their stories...


The Car wash was fun it sounded like a thunderstorm.
When I smelled bubble gum I wanted to eat it but could'nt.
The wind drier sounded like a robot, I loked the car wash it was fun.


By Milo

We had to pay and put the code in and a lot of water is hitting the car.
The waves washing the car.

By Zack

We went for a car wash last Thursday.
It sounded like a tornado.
It looked like a rainbow.
It smelt like bubblegum.
It dried the car.

By Jahq

We waited for a car wash.
The car wash sounded like a rain storm.
We could not see out.
The bubbles looked like a rainbow.

By Phoenix

The boys did a fabulous job of trying to use our 5 senses to help us describe this shared experience!

The Stumpery

We went to the Stumpery and I got poked by the sharp wood and it hurt! I saw a dragon and he was blowing fire on the dragons.

By Zack

We went to the Stumpery and saw a dragon breathing fire out of his nostrils and mouth!

By Phoenix

We went to the Stumpery, there was a dragon shaped like a monster. There was a big birds nest. Frank Wells made a chair out of wood, it looked like a ghost.

By Jahq

I went to Fiordland with my family and climbed a massive mountain! We saw a Tarn on the mountain, it was a large swimming pool. It was fun!

By Milo

2013 Our New Group

2013 sees this Literacy adventure begin again, this time I have 4 fabulous year 3 boys in our group!
We are going to use all of the strategies we learned last year by using the Gail Loane book I've got something to say.
Leading young writers to authorship.

This book inspired me last year to listen, look and share experiences in life in exciting ways that motivate the young writers to communicate and discover the links between their own lives, what they know about the world and what they know about language, vocabulary and writing.

From the left is Phoenix, Jahq, Zack and Milo, please join us on our journey into writing and celebrate with us our successes.

Classroom Transition

For the last four weeks of our intervention the accelerated literacy group was integrated back into the classroom. This has meant we have been working on specific genre writing (persuasive writing). The main focus has been on becoming independent writers within the class.

To achieve this we have:

Always started our writing together. As a group we discuss our topic, plan, discuss again and then write our first few sentences together. We have then gone off on our own to finish our writing. This means that we have all our ideas clear in our heads and also in our plans before we write.

We have also been learning to proof read and edit our writing on our own before seeing the teacher. This has involved us learning to reread our writing, confirm our sentences, check for punctuation and spelling mistakes, and also to add in more interesting words.

This has created a routine within class that can be maintained even now the group has finished.

Below is our editing card that we use in class to work through our writing independently.

Coming Soon: Some of our fabulous persuasive writing!!

Transition

After 11 weeks of teaching this group of students we are now planning to transition them back into the classroom.
Tracy the classroom teacher is going to continue to focus on getting one quality sentence that is expressed orally with her first.
They are also to use a bubble plan to plan their writing as in the small group teaching we had been doing shared word brainstorms and students would select from that word group to construct the sentence.

Tracy will see them every day and they will trial writing stations following the writing time and the direct acts of teaching.

My Dad - Connor

My Dad has big oval brown eyes.

My Dad has ginormous steps when he is in a hurry.

My Dad has hair that is brown as a Bear and it is short.

My Dad likes to throw a ball with me and my brothers.

My Dad let me go on the motorbike when we went to the swimming pool.

My Dad wears his favourite t-shirt it is his Rock Star one, it is blue.

He wears it when he goes to work.

Love

Connor

My Dad - Kane

My Dad has brown short spiky hair.

My Dad has humongous blue eyes.

My Dad has spiky skin on his face.

He play fights me at home.

My Dad wins the fights.

My Dad is hilarious because he says funny jokes.

Dads favourite cars are the model ones that open up.

Jacob and I are not allowed to play with them, some of them have motors sticking out.

They are really colourful.

Love Kane

My Dad - Sophie

My Dad has black & white salt & pepper hair.

My Dad smells like a rose in Spring.

My Dad is a tickle monster when I hop

Into his bed.

He likes doing Art with me at home.

He is an artist.

My Dad is like a Jungle Gym

We swing on his arms like monkeys.

Hayley and I are his favourite thing

In the whole world.

He would do anything to have us.

Love Sophie