Aden's Car Track

During Term 4 Aden and Nina made a car track for our school.

They had to plan and create this.

Aden is very proud of his work and loves seeing other children playing on the car track.

Check out Aden's Slides from what he did.

Athletics Day: Thursday 2 November

We had lots of fun on Athletics Day.

We enjoyed running the relays.

We tried our best.

Look at the photos and see what we did!

Term 4: Notes

Please remember to bring your sunhat to school everyday! From week 2 if we don't have our sunhat we would have to sit under a tree during break times. Our sun hats need to have a brim on them.

We are currently doing Athletics practice. This means that we need to wear sensible shoes that we can run, jump and throw in. Our sun hat's will also help us as it gets hot doing athletics in the sun in the afternoon.

Our Reflections from Term 3

Hi Guys

Take a look at our positive things from this term.

Matai guys feel free to add any more that you come up with over the holidays.

Have a great break team.

From Matai

Sockburn Art Exhibition

Sockburn Art Exhibition

Thank you to all the families who came to the art show in the hall. The children have loved sharing their art with you. Here is a short video in case you missed it!

Our Art Exhibition: Stop Motion

Kia Ora

Here is our Stop Motion's from the Art Exhibition.

Take a look:

Pirate Prance

The Rockets and Spitfire reading groups have been reading Pirate Party this week.

As part of our learning we followed the instructions and performed the Pirate Prance. Thanks to Captain Kaleb for calling out the instructions - we had lots of fun!!

Reading Tasks - Jumbo Jets

We wrote down words we thought were interesting and then talked about what they meant - this helped us to understand the story better.

Sockburn School Art Exhibition

Sockburn School Art Exhibition

This week Matai have been getting ready for the Sockburn School Art Exhibition.
We are excited to be able to share our work and art with you all.

The Art Exhibition will be on Wednesday 13 September and Thursday 14 September.

For more information please check out the school newsletter in the coming weeks.

Cheers

Matai Learners

Creating Compound Sentences

In writing today with Mrs Hefferman we were learning how to take two simple sentences and join them together using a conjunction.

We used this powerpoint to help us with our learning.

Here are our compound sentences we created with the conjunction underlined.

We will be trying to add this kind of sentence into our writing very soon!

Preparing for our Art Exhibition

Create Day!

Today we had so much fun painting and creating sculptures in preparation for our Art Exhibition in Week 8 this term.

We don't want to give too much away but here are some photos of us in action...see if you can guess what we are making...

Stop Motion

To make a Stop Motion you have to move the object a very little bit and then take a picture.

If you take lots of photos then it will make the video longer.

You have take photos of  the small movements.

By Matai

In the last couple of weeks Matai students have been getting ready for our Art Exhibition. Part of the skills we have been learning is about stop motion.

Please check out our first ever stop motion.

Cheers

Mr G

Fia Fia

Tonight was a fantastic celebration of Pasifika culture that we have in our school and cluster community. Thank you to our wonderful children for an amazing performance!!

Rockets Reading Group

Last week we read a book about Hens. We read the information and then summarised it in our own words. Have a listen to our Chatterpix creations and see if we can teach you something about hens! Well done to Tia, Karaitiana and Sadie.

Information Reports Spitfires Group

At writing time last week the Spitfires were using the information from their book about Tyrannosaurus Rex to write information reports. Then they recorded their writing using Chatterpix app on the iPads. They found out a lot of interesting information! Well done Skyla, Heidi, Kaleb, and Patrick.

Leave us a comment with a question about something you would like us to find out about Dinosaurs!

Seeding Potatoes!

Over the past week a few children from Matai got some potatoes ready for seed.

We had to place them onto an egg tray and then put them in a dark place. We decided that the old filing cabinet in the old ESOL room was perfect for it.

One week on this is what they are looking like. We wonder how long it will take before we can plant them? Could anyone help us?

Wigram Sod Turning

Kia Ora Guys

Yesterday the whole school got to check out our new site for Wigram Primary School.

We were all so excited to be part of the Sod Turning.

If you missed it take a look at the video below.

Thanks to Helena for taking the photos.

Novel: Matilda

This term Matai have been reading a book from a favourite author Roal Dahl.

We have just started Matilda and are enjoying learning all about the characters.

Sustainability and Recycling

Welcome back to Term 3!

We hope you all had an enjoyable 2 weeks - we are back into learning and the children are settling back into the school routine.

This term we are learning about Sustainability and Recycling with a focus on Visual arts - leading up to a whole school art exhibition later on in the term - So exciting!!

To start us off we looked at what we were putting in the rubbish, recycling and worm farm bins in the Learning Space...the answer is not what was supposed to be in the bins!

We are working on ways to help remind us how to Reduce, reuse and recycle our rubbish - Mr Barrow even popped in to the hall to see how we were getting on.

We have decided we need to make posters to help people know what should go in each bin - come into Matai and have a look at what we are doing!

Cultural Assembly

Hey
Just a friendly reminder about our cultural assembly this Friday.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Inquiry Learning

We have had great fun learning about schools in the past and present and our wonderings took us to thinking about what schools could be like in the future.

Watch our Explain Everything Presentations and see if you agree with our ideas...looks like there might be a few robot teachers coming our way!

Tash

Manha

Karaitiana and Havana

Kamen and Kristian

Matthew

We will post more videos soon - keep an eye out for yours and please leave us some comments!

Explain Everything: My Favourite Page

Over the past couple of weeks Mr Gibson's literacy learners have been learning how to take a photo using the app Explain Everything.

First they had to download the template of our site. Then they had to pick their favourite page from a book and use the camera tool on Explain Everything. After that we had to crop the photo to fit it into the box. Finally we had to save and upload it onto our Google Drive.

To begin with we were excited about learning the new skill but then some of us found it really tricky. It was great to have some buddies to help us if we got stuck (and of course Mr Gibson)

Take a look at the video.

Addition and Subtraction

The Spheres were learning about addition and subtraction with 10 as one of the numbers in the equation. We are learning to do this mentally and how to count forwards and backwards using a number line. We used Explain Everything to record our findings.

Using visual materials

Using visual materials

Counting back on the number line

Visualising counting back on the number line

Counting back and visualising the number line in our heads