Reading Night

Thank you to all the parents who came to our reading night last night. We hope you all found something useful to help support your child as you read together each night.

Thanks to the children who were our assistants







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Our cup song performance

Here is our performance from this morning. We hope you enjoy it!

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How to do the cup song step by step!

This week we are looking at instructions.  We have started off by learning how to do the actions to the cup song from pitch perfect.





This is the full version of the song.



Do you think we will get this good?

Today's poem

Bendy bodies

Head, shoulders, knees and nose
Can I touch these with my toes?
If I wriggle, bend and twist
I will look silly in this pose




Ears, elbows, tummy
Can I touch these with my knee?
If I squeeze and push and rock
I wonder what we'll see?

Shoulders, back and hips
Can I touch these with my hand?
If I wiggle, swing and tap
I think I'll do it grand






I like to stretch and bend my body
It is just so much fun!
How many other ways can we move like this?
Come on - everyone.



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Reading with Tui

Tui have been learning about keywords in sentences and finding the main idea in a story.

Last week they read an article about William Atack. This week they have used the keywords to summarize the story by making a sock puppet movie on the iPads. (They used the feltboard app to make their backgrounds)

By Hayley

By Ella

By Theo

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Reading contractions

What is a contraction?

They are 2 words stuck together. They turn into one word by taking some letters out and put in an apostrophe.






By Ford

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Feeding at Sophie's bird cafe

Here is a photo of the birds feeding from Sophie's bird feeder that she made in reading time this week.

I hope they don't get a sore tummy from all that peanut butter!

Bird Cafe

Last week the Fantail reading group read about a bird cafe. This week we made our own bird feeders.





We used our black and yellow thinking hats. What was the worst thing and best thing about making bird feeders.

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