Literacy+and+Communication

2012 =Click here to read from my Writer's Journal=

I am using my Toe by Toe strategies to help me read media type="file" key="Jack toebytoe in rdg 11.2012.flv" = by Jack. = || = =
 * [[image:xAM_0002.JPG width="400" height="300"]] || = Thank you Mrs Hogan for letting us enter your competition. We would like to do it again. Thank you for letting us share it with you. Thanks for the noodle cup, they came in handy and also the gel pens that we can colour in with. Thanks for the free book. The book will be good because we can develop our reading skills. My favourite part was getting the book and the noodle cup. A big thank you to the sponsors, especially the Feilding Library. It will be fun if we could do it next year. =

= = 2012 Speech - We need to look after our trees media type="file" key="Jack 2012 speech.flv" width="360" height="270" I am improving my reading fluency by reading to others media type="file" key="Jack Travis - read to others.flv" width="360" height="270"

2012 - Term 1
"Where's the Case place?" Stanley and I said. We walked everywhere.

"There it is." Finally we found it. We went back to places where there was this machine that went around the outline that had been dug out. It went around. There was a lot of machinery to look at. We all got sore legs. We were all thirsty. We had McDonalds. We took Dad some KFC because he was contracting.


 * Sheep **
 * With wool **
 * As soft as a cuddly teddy bear **
 * Wool like a winter coat **


 * Until shorn **
 * When they look pink and bare **
 * Ready for summer **


 * Sheep **
 * They can move very quickly **
 * Everywhere. **
 * They are hard to catch **
 * No matter where. **


 * Sheep **
 * Baa Baa Baa **
 * Bleats a sheep **
 * Hungry **
 * Looking for food **


 * Sheep **
 * Fresh green grass **
 * Chewed with white strong teeth **
 * Lambs drink from **
 * A bottle **
 * Or their mother’s teat **

=2011=
 * We eat **
 * Sheep **
 * Yum - Roast lamb for dinner **

I am getting better at adding details to make my writing more interesting

**Manawatu A&P Show Country Kids Challenge ** On Saturday Stan, Ashmo, Caleb, Tom, Ashley and me went to country kid show. There were five activities to do. 1 quiz, 2 sheep wool, 3 was to put some halters on two calves, 4 build a flag using 3 batons, 5 to help a girl out as she had just crashed the motorbike. My team zipped through the sheep wool like a wild cheater but we never zipped through the flag pole. We went as slow as ants. The final 4 teams had to go across two pellets without touching the ground. Then they had to wash a quarter of a ute, find a needle in a haystack and the say an over 20 word poem and stand up their flag up. Apiti won over all. Then Mum, Stan, Caleb, Ash, Danni, and I went inside and looked at all the animals. I got to pat a baby ostrich and pat an ostrich egg. I patted a horse too! By Jack I am learning to read procedural text for understanding when I investigate with my reading partners. We had to read the experiment before we could do it together.

On Thursday the 22nd of September Travis, Logan, Lacey and Jack did some experiments. We used a bowl, milk, dishwashing liquid and food colouring. When we put the dish washing liquid in the food colouring went away fast as. Then it came back.

We put seven teaspoons of dish washing liquid in a bowl. We put about half a cup of milk in the bowl and mixed it together. We noticed how the liquid moved and changed.