08 October 2014

Record of meeting 8 October 2014


News

Jo had an eye lash removed from her eye and the pain has gone also talked about seeing  lights. Cath enjoyed morning tea at the Pelican. Terry ordered on line new safer side mirrors for his car.  Wendy went to a picnic at the Lady Denman and alerted us about full lunar eclipse tonight around 9 pm. Helene had her grandson visit her last week. Geoff went to a first birthday party in Sydney. Pauline has returned from a cruise with her sister. David C’s grandson visited for a week. Di visited a friend in a nursing home.

 
Words of the day

Pinguid = fat, oily, greasy

Myriad = a great number of things, a unit of ten thousand

Skittish = lively

Booby = foolish person

Encapsulate = to enclose or summarise

Snow-white-ism = a new fashion

Uxorious = excessive foolish doting on his wife

Demise = end, eventual failure

Doff = take off or lift a hat or clothes

 
Writing from words of the day

Helene – Fish and chips

Wendy – don’t get foolish with me

Terry – After a bottle or two of wine

Cath – Own style of fashion

Jo – She looked amazing

Di – Any opportunity

David C – I met a man

Pauline – Lay down and die

Geoff – A nice fresh war

 
Reading of homework

Helene – I go every where

Terry – Fairies wearing scrubs

Cath – Fly spray that’s all

Jo – A house fly admires a blow fly

Di – Fun with you all

David C – Shiite

Garry – A grasshopper in Australia

 
Reading

Helene read the story of B 1 cooking pancakes for her grandsons’ birthday.

Pauline read out her story “The ten pound pom” – there will be more to come.

 
Exercise

We participated in a progressive write where we could see all of the previous contributions to the story. This resulted in some great collaborative writing.

David C – the dress in the window

Pauline – On the beach

Geoff – The sun dial

Wendy – The big one

Terry – It’s gross

Cath – Undercover agent

Jo – Seven men

Di – Good bye from the Teddy bear

 
Homework

Life after death
 
 

 

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