Meadows Arts and Technology Elementary School (MATES)

MATES's first Senior Walk welcoming the graduating seniors of 2023. Almost 2/3 of the MATES 5th grade class of 2016 returned. MATES is proud of all of their accomplishments!!

Third Grade County Fair. Culminating project for Charlotte's Web.

Fifth Grade vs. MATES Staff kickball Game. Final score -- MATES Staff 7/Fifth Grade 6. The students displayed fantastic sportsmanship.

Congratulations to Hazel Denninghoff, Malcolm Campbell, Lana Fitch, Alli Detmer, Delaney Le, Lilly Chavez, Jackson Welch, Adalyn Brennan, Hieu Madara, and Simona Gurevich for representing MATES at the Inaugural VCOE Visual and Performing Arts Showcase. Their artwork was on display, and recognized by all in attendance.

Second Grade performed Geology Rocks -- another demonstration of how MATES helps students learn through multiple modalities and to make learning FUN.

Have you seen the new MATES media booth? Mr. LaGuardia's Friday Focus class is a tech club. The students learn how to use the sound and lighting equipment, and work the booth for our class plays. Thank you to the Smidt Family Foundation for their generous donation to make this media booth possible.

First graders have started their Africa unit! We started with a plane ride to Tanzania. Students made passports and tickets to board the 22 hour plane ride. We had inflight entertainment and even time to take a nap on the long flight.
After landing, we got to go on our first Safari in the Serengeti! We used binoculars and searched for animals.

So many Friday Focus options -- Art, Card Games, Tech Club, Typing Games, Tap Dance, Directed Draw, Relaxation Station, Rock Painting, 3-D Printing, Stained Glass Art, STEM, Messy Science, or Pickleball. FRIYAY!

Kindergarten students in Room 3 started their unit on community and started with a map of their classroom, then a map of MATES. They wrote in their journals about our MATES community helpers, too. They walked around the school with their maps afterward!

Congratulations to all of our third grade students for portraying a famous person in the Wax Museum!

The first grade classes transformed their classrooms into pizzerias for a day of fully integrated learning.

Valentine's Fun!

More from Room 4's STEM Challenge -- What can you make with 100?

Room 4 STEM Challenge...What can you build with 100...

100 Days Smarter! Happy 100th Day of School!

The 3-5 grade students have so much fun in Friday Focus!

Room 3 Kindergarten Penguin Movie

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We are so proud of our Exemplary Arts Education School Designation as well as our Distinguished School Award. MATES teachers, staff, students and families work together to make this happen.

Meadows Arts and Technology Elementary School wins California Exemplary Arts Education Award Meadows Arts and Technology Elementary School, a K-5 charter school in Thousand Oaks, won the 2023 California Exemplary Arts Education Award.

The Room 2 Weather Report https://drive.google.com/open?id=1m2nOFriRytRtyh_orjnbdkAJGV34J9dG&authuser=0

MATES Open Enrollment begins this Monday, January 9, 2023. Sign up for a tour today!

Here are some creations from Room 4's Make a Toy Engineering Challenge!
Toys created by students include: Buddy the Elf, a playground, an ice cream shop, a dinosaur, a drone, a snowflake ornament, a beach car, a mermaid, and a doll.

1st and 2nd grade study buddies got together to complete a winter STEM Challenge. The challenge was to build a structure to hide a polar bear from the cold. The only materials provided were toothpicks and mini marshmallows. Students worked together to plan, build, and make improvements on their structures.