INKLESS TALES UPDATE

1M, QUICK!!!

CLICK ON ELIZABETH TO GO TO A SURPRISE ON INKLESS TALES. IT WILL LEAVE YOU BEAMING!!!

OUR 'HICCUP' NEWS

Elizabeth has seen our 'hiccup' pictures and she has left a comment on the blog.
GUESS WHAT????
She wants to put them on INKLESS TALES!!!
She asked for our permission.....and our answer is
YES!!!!!!

WE ARE SOOOO EXCITED!!
WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM!

THANKYOU ELIZABETH!

WE'VE STARTED SOMETHING HERE!!!

The children have really caught the 'poetry bug' and have taken off with their writing.
It's hard to believe that this all started with a poem from Elizabeth at INKLESS TALES, barely 2 weeks ago!
BRYCE started the ball rolling and this week, ALISTAIR, LAURA, BEN and BILLEE-JANE have joined him in the spotlight.
LOOK OUT FOR THEIR POEMS IN FOLLOWING POSTS.
WHO WILL BE NEXT?

OUR BIG SURPRISE!

We came to school excited today because we couldn't wait to see if Elizabeth from Inkless Tales had left a comment about the poem we sent her.

We had Naomi's and Ben's Mums in to help us put comments on our blog and 1G's and 6J's. When they asked us what we wanted to do, we said: "WE JUST WANT TO WRITE TO ELIZABETH"!

So they helped us add our ideas about what Elizabeth should call the poem about 5.

We kept asking Mrs M what time it was in New York.
We wondered if while we were doing Word Wall, if she was having dinner and while we were having our lunch, if she was reading her children a story before bed.

We sent Elizabeth an email. It said:

'Please look at the blog because there's something special for you on it.'

She posted back that she LOVED our poem and that she had a SURPRISE for US... but we had to wait. Read her full comment HERE!

(Just scroll down to the comments.)

At 2:55pm, just before we went home, the SURPRISE arrived.

Click on the 'CHECK IT OUT' graphic to see the SURPRISE.


WHAT A LOVELY WAY TO FINISH THE WEEK.

THANKYOU ELIZABETH, YOU MADE OUR DAY!

Want to 'talk' to Elizabeth, 1M? Leave a comment on this post.

If you have more ideas about a title for the '5' poem, leave a comment about them too.

MRS M :>)

OUR AMAZING NEWS!!

Today we have some amazing news to share... we are SOOOO excited we could BURST!

One of our favourite websites to visit is INKLESS TALES and late last week the editor of this website, Elizabeth Bushey, left a comment on OUR blog!
We thought we were very special when we read her lovely comment left on our DO YOU HAVE TO BE A TEACHER TO TEACH? post. Elizabeth agreed with us that anyone can be a teacher and reminded us that WE CAN DO ANYTHING because we CAN.... we just have to TRY.

We felt like V.I.P.'s because someone from the other side of the world had visited our blog. We looked at Elizabeth's website and realised she was a V.I.P. too- a very clever one at that!

Yesterday when we logged onto the blog, there was another comment from Elizabeth, this time on our POST ABOUT 5. When we read this comment, OUR JAWS DROPPED.... NO WORDS CAME OUT!!!

She'd sent us a poem about 5- and 'unpublished' poem. We couldn't believe that Elizabeth had chosen us to be the FIRST to see it.You can read it, too. CLICK HERE to go to our post ABOUT 5, then go down to the comments.

Now we have to come up with some ideas for a TITLE and some ILLUSTRATIONS to go with the poem. We've never worked with an AUTHOR before. We are EXCITED, AMAZED and PROUD!

We feel really blessed to have Elizabeth help us learn. So we wanted to do something special for her (with just a bit of help from Mrs M!)

HERE IT IS...

We have a new friend, Elizabeth

America is where she's at.

That's a long way

but she's a mouseclick away

WOW... imagine that!

She's a writer and illustrator of stories and poems

and great games and songs too.

We love her website Inkless Tales

There's so much to see, learn and do!

Elizabeth paid a visit to our blog

and left a comment you see.

She agreed with us- we ALL can teach

That's right- even you and me!

Now there's a poem about number 5

We were the first to see it.

Thankyou Elizabeth for choosing us-

we really can't believe it!

The poem we love, we think it's great

It really helps you learn

all about 5 and what it looks like

but now it is our turn.

We learnt from you, you showed us how

We are trying something new

You encouraged us to have a go....

So here's our poem, Elizabeth, to you!

THANKYOU!

We know Mrs M has emailed Elizabeth and there are some exciting things we can do together.... we just wish she lived closer!

There's no one else in our school that has had this happen to them.

WE THINK THIS IS THE BEST YEAR YET...AND IT'S ONLY JUST BEGUN!!!

HOPE YOU LIKE OUR POEM, ELIZABETH. :>)

3 TIMES THE FUN

This post is brought to you by the Number...

This week we have been investigating the number 3
We know that-

* the names Ben and Max have 3 letters in them

* our school name has 3 words in it

* 3 babies born to the one family at the same time are triplets

* we write the number 3 in a clockwise direction

There are also stories that have 3 main characters in them.

Click on the titles to hear the story again.

* Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

* The 3 Billy Goats Gruff

* The 3 Little Pigs

Do you know of any other stories that have something about 3 in them? Bring them in to share.

Where have you seen the number 3? Do you have a 3 in your house number?

Have you seen 3 of something?....

look around your home, your street,

at the waterfront, the shops, while

you are in the car.....

Can you find 3 in 3 different places?

Can you find 3 different groupings of 3?

Take some photos if you can. Leave a comment and tell us what you have found.

HAPPY HUNTING!

Mrs M

PATTERNS!!! PATTERNS!!! PATTERNS!!!
We made some patterns about 3. Mrs M thought we would just do ABC patterns like these...

but we are just SOO clever!!!

Can you work out what these patterns are? Read them carefully.

Are they ABB ? AAB ? ABA ? or ABC ? Leave a comment to tell me what you think.

Patrick has given you 5 patterns to name!

Look at this one CLOSELY!

There's one other way to make a pattern about 3 and it's VERY tricky. Can you work it out?

Use objects from around your home to create 3 patterns. Tell us about them in a comment. Take a photo if you can.
Here are some to get you going. Can you finish these patterns?

FORK, KNIFE, SPOON, FORK, KNIFE,......

APPLE, BANANA, APPLE, APPLE, BANANA, .........

DVD, DVD, REMOTE CONTROL, DVD,............, REMOTE CONTROL

Click here to learn more about patterns and play a patterning game!

HAPPY PATTERNING!

MRS M