Mata's Olympic Poem

This week Matai students created an Olympics poem. We worked together and shared our ideas about the olympics. We then made our own poems. Come into our learning space next week to see the ones that are on our wall.

The Olympics

   By Matai

Once every four years

Laughing and cheering

Yelling and screaming for our country to win

Medals are hard to win

People are playing different sports

It’s hard to qualify for the Olympics

Cheering for our country

Supporting others when they are competing

Our Playground Models

In week 9 of term 2 we took part in an Inquiry morning with Kowhai. This gave us the chance to create our playgrounds that we had designed.

Duffy Assembly

Yesterday we had a Duffy Assembly and were lucky enough to have Dr Megan Woods, MP, as our special guest. The children loved receiving their new books. The Choir sang Octopuses' Garden and did very well for their first performance in public.

Here is Megan presenting some books in Matai after the assembly.

How many fit in the container?

During Maths today we made our own containers then guessed how many cubes would fit in there. How many  do you think?


Action Stations

Hope everyone enjoyed Queen's Birthday weekend....

Today we introduced Action Stations in Matai....if you have children in Kowhai or Pohutukawa you will be familiar with these. 

Each week we will pose a question to the children and they think about this while trying action stations of their choice. 

This week's question is "How do we learn from someone else?" 

     

                           

We have started with 10 stations which cover reading, writing, maths, I.T., art, problem solving, collaborative activities, fitness and construction. 

They also help with Cognitive, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Co-operative, Social, Emotional, Language and Persistence skills.

Caught being good

This week our two stars in Matai are Letitia-Ann and Tomas, well done.

Matai stars

On Friday, Matai ran our CARES assembly, the focus was on "Co-operation".

Thank you to our presenters, for some it was the first time they have spoken in front of the school which can be a bit nerve wracking so well done!

                 Congratulations to Aryan and Bronte who received CARES awards.