Mask Story

Last week the Cat in the Hat's Reading Group read a story about making clay faces.  We decided that we would have a go at this activity, but use play dough instead... check out our wonderful faces that we made :-)

A Very Busy Week 7 :-)

Wow... where has the week gone?  Team Toru have been super busy with their learning this week.  We have been looking at doubles to 20 as a knowledge focus for Maths, including a really cool Doubles Rap that we have been singing together.  At Writing time we have been retelling "The Three Little Pigs", as well as learning about punctuation. During Reading time we have used our imagination to create a house for a fourth little pig, as well as describing the wolf using adjectives.  And today Team Toru, along with Team Wha, got to experiment with Zentangle designs...
Whew!  A very busy time for us...
Here are some snapshots of our learning below :-)

Top Handwriters today!

Miss Ferris was in Team Toru for the day today.  She helped Mrs Gempton to choose 3 top handwriters.  Here is the work she chose!  Well done Tom, Amy and Ali!
We are getting very clever at copying our Handwriting off the board now.  
Ka Pai Team Toru Tamariki!

More Super Handwriting

We are continuing to work really hard at our Handwriting in Team Toru.  Here are four Handwriting Stars from today's focus on the letter Nn...

Using Kidspiration for our Reading Response Work

One of Team Toru's Reading groups has been using Kidspiration as a tool for sharing their learning.  Here is an example of what they found out reading "Hermie the Crab".