Colourful  Creative  Calendar  Art !

If you have not had the chance already, check out the wonderful calendar art creations in the school hall. Matai children worked really hard on drawing their fish to include all of the important features as well as using what they had  learn't about hot and cool colours to great effect!

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READY SET ROLL!

Ready Set Roll!

Matai students loved the opportunity to learn the beginning stages of roller blading -standing up without falling over!   After a few tries many children were able to move across the court and started to gain some confidence.   Check out the photo peach below by clicking on the blue link for some fun images from their training session.

Ready Set Roll

FANTASTIC DAY.....PET DAY.......

Check out this photo show to see the wonderful pets that were on show on Friday.Pet Day Photos

Time for Times Tables

 

Here is a selection of maths games for each group to help practice your multiplication. Remember you can play games from other groups just key in the times tables you are learning.

Rock Stars
counting up in twos
counting up in fives

Shooting Stars
Hit The Button x2 x5 x10
Repeated Addition Cookie Time


Twinkling Stars
Mixed Times Tables Practice
Fish Shop
Hit The Button multiplication and division
Moon Multiplication

One Two Three JUMP!

What a wonderful time Matai has been having in the past few weeks, working on our skipping skills. Here you can see us skipping with a single rope. The class have really enjoyed the challenge of running into a long,turning rope and then getting their timing right to skip. Also running through the moving rope which was challenging for some but soon became a favourite activity.

Lights...Camera....Action!

Matai children absolutely loved the opportunity to work in groups on Wednesday and Thursday, to prepare and perform Maui and the Giant Fish as a drama. Here are a couple of photos for you to enjoy. Click onto the link below for many more!
Marvellous Matai Performers

Maia our Movie Star!

A HUGE Matai thank you to Maia for volunteering to be filmed this week describing herself in Maori. You have such excellent pronunciation and we can all learn from you. Anyone needing help with pronunciation can watch Maia.
We are looking forward to hearing everyone during our talking days this coming week. Miss Standish and I are very proud of your motivation and effort as well as the number of Maori words and phrases you are able to use now.
Keep an eye out during the coming weeks for more Matai Movie Stars.

Maui and the Giant Fish

We have been enjoying the legend of Maui and the Giant Fish. We are learning to re-tell a legend and include all of the important parts.
This is a simple video of the legend. It does not have all the parts we know,but we can use it to share the story with you.

Here is a re-telling of the legend with all the parts we know and it was made by children from Solway School, a few years ago.

Sizzling Soccer Stars

Check out the Solway students who received Player of the Day certificates in the weekend. We are proud of you.Keep it up and enjoy being great members of teams who play fair.
Thank you to Mel Bryant for the fantastic photo.

Money Fun!

Today a very awesome person called Vane came to talk to us about money. He taught us about saving money and the difference between a credit card and an eft-pos card. We learnt that a credit card uses money you borrow from the bank and you pay it back with a little bit more ( interest). An eft-pos card uses your own money that you have saved in the bank. He told us we could start doing extra chores to earn money -not just tidy our bedroom,but everyones in the house!
He was very funny and made us pretend to go back in time. We also had to "train" to do chores to earn money.   Written by Matai Students.

Here are a couple of photos of Vane in action.

Welcome to our class blog! We are a group of 24 fabulous Year 2 and 3 children. We love to learn and to share the fun things we are doing in Matai with you.