Record of meeting 4 February 2015

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Happy birthday Cath and Diane



Helene enjoyed her Pump class. Wendy’s leg is now pain free after having surgery for a bypass to her leg. Cath had visitors over the weekend and its happy birthday to her today. Jo had the computer man who could not find her missing document but was a nice man John Dagg -see contact details below. Lynn nothing to report. Diane has cleared her pool of tadpoles, enjoyed a swim and will celebrate her birthday tomorrow. David is going to spend the weekend with his grandson in Sydney. Geoff had a good week with letters published in the Fin Review and other publications.

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Words of the day

Razed – completely destroyed

Maladroit – clumsy or awkward

Verdant – green with

Desecrate – to divest of sacred or hallowed character

Exclude – to leave out

Megalomaniac – passion for big things or insanity for self exhalation

Nephrologists – a person who studies clouds

Manifest – clear and obvious

 

Stories from words of the day

Diane – coal seam gas mining

Lynn – The report

Jo – my flower garden

Cathy – Commercial development

Wendy – Parliament House

Helene – Diverting his gaze

Geoff – Press Club speech

David C – The valley

 

Reading of homework

Helene – Roast lamb and vegetables

Garry – Rainbow balls

Jo – That’s me sitting there

Lynn – The new Fred is wed

Diane – An alien creature

David C – Dorothy’s dilemma – a brilliant story

Terry - Parallel dimensions

 

Exercises

1. My day

 

We created stories and poems which included 5 activities, 3 colours, a dream and a childhood memory

 Cath – My birth day

Jo – red roses

Lynn – mundane tasks – it rhymed

Diane – Escape from boarding school

David C – I am a regular guy

Geoff – I’m floating

Helene – The road bumps of life

Wendy – A yellow sunshiny day

Terry – A comic book

2. “Some relationships are better than others” and including animal noises

 

We produced the following range of furry, slimy, woolly, scaly, noisy stories

Lynn – What are we bleating about?

Diane – Making hay

David C – Mermaids on my pond

Geoff – Always owned cats

Helene – Sounds of silence

Wendy – If you treat me right

Terry – A yard of turkeys

Cathy – Bleating and hissing

Jo – In the jungle

 

Homework

Little red riding hood

Rewrite a fairy tale from the opposite/another point of view

 

The boy who cried wolf