Roald Dahl

In Room 4, this term, we are studying works by Roald Dahl. For homework we had to find out information about his life and books he had written. Kaizen produced this amazing piece of work!

Read to Self

Here are a few shots of our daily session of Read to Self. We pick three good fit books from our class library, find a comfortable space within the class and settle in for some good reading. Our goal is to reach a high level of "reading stamina". This means we will be able to read without distraction for a long period of time as a class - Mrs Nansen sets the timer to time our stamina each day. Everyone is accountable towards the goal, once someone becomes distracted and loses focus the timer stops but we carry on reading for a while longer. So far we are up to 14 minutes as a group!

Good Fit Reading!!

One of the crucial parts of becoming a good reader is choosing the right books to help you reach your goals.

In class we discussed this and I used this fun little illustration to help us understand what "Good Fit Books" are. I asked all the students to take off their right shoe and add it to a pile in the middle of the circle. When everyone was back in their seat, I instructed them when I said "Go!" to quickly grab a shoe and put it on as fast as possible. The moment came and everyone leapt for a shoe. Laughter spilled out as everyone was trying to put on their "new" shoe, finding it was either too big or too small and just plain looked funny on them.

The purpose of the lesson was for students to use the "ipick" rules to choose books that match their reading ability, just like how wearing a shoe that is too big will take you a long time to get to your destination - reading books that are still too difficult for you will take you a long time to improve your accuracy, fluency and comprehension.

Lesson well learnt and room 4 are excellent at picking "good fit books"!

Is this learning....

Lollycake+learning = ?????! Stay tuned to find out more...

In the meantime here is the recipe:

LOLLY CAKE

100g butter
1/2 can condensed milk
1 pack ground malt biscuits
1 bag chopped Eskimos or fruit puffs

1.  Melt the butter & condensed milk in the microwave for 1 min then mix together
2.  Add the biscuits to the butter/milk mixture
3.  Chop your lollies and stir them in
4.  Roll the mixture into a log and refrigerate until solid
5.  Cut the log into slices and ENJOY!!