Check out this global maths challenge.

Do you think you have an answer?

Let me know
http://melvilleroom8.blogspot.com/2010/07/melville-intermediate-y-maths-help-us.html

Rubbish, Rubbish and more Rubbish

What an interesting thing to see..... all the rubbish that we create in a day in savvy 7. What do you think of this?

Have you started your Collaborative Home learning?

Remember you can use any of the different ways to present your Key Competency activity

Collaborative Home Learning

Home learning has been many different things for different people. Some have continued to reveal their passion projects and do really interesting things along with working on basic facts and some great reading.

This term our new challenge is collaborative home learning. Your challenge is to use google apps to work together and produce something that others will enjoy and learn something from. The theme this week to start with is 'Relating to Others'.

Relating to others was our key Competency last term. The skills we focused on are life one ones and not to be forgotten.... so let's remember.

Create a presentation the helps us remember one of the relating to others ideas. Make sure you include
1. The name of the focus
2. Reasons why it is important
3. A relevant example of it in use that may be a situation that we would find ourselves in.

Your other challenge is to communicate and collaborate using the apps. Make sure it is not a one sided presentation. Make decisions together.

Make sure your work is proof read and appropriate to your audience.

If you need any assistance just ask and be sure to have your home learning shared with my by Thursday 29th July.

Good Luck and have fun

A clip recommended by Aimee

This is an amazing clip about a girl that draws a story about the second world war with sand (not fast forwarded)

she was the winner of Ukrain's Got Talent 2009. Thanks Aimee for something quite unique.

The best toilets in town

What do you think of our new toilets?

Awesome Ukulele Learning

Well the Ukulele man arrived this morning with many multicoloured ukuleles under his arm. We all had an opportunity to play 2 songs, learn 2 chords and really get the strumming action happening. We hope to continue this if we have enough ukuleles. Mr Ukelele (aka Mr Prichard) will skype in a lesson weekly to keep up our skills. Check out the great clips of you all playing.

We are about to see our very own reading wiki.

But before the big unveiling..... what is a wiki?

What shall we call this game?

Maths Shoes Voice thread

Have some fun with this puzzle.

Click on the image and see how long it takes you to complete the puzzle. Who can get it the quickest! Let us know

News from Ainayya

Ainayya has just emailed me a recount of her exciting holiday. Here is just one of the pics that she sent. I will show you more on Monday.

You are Truly Savvy Ainayya! Thanks

Great Holidays

Looking forward to hearing a few more holiday stories. Thanks for those that have been sharing their stories on the blog.

Here is a picture from my holiday adventure. We went to New Plymouth and Mackenzie and Sam enjoyed some time with their grandparents and cousins.

I am starting a 2 day ICT expo tomorrow so will share some of my stories too.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday. Have a think about how you would like the new seating plan to look....and...

The Ukelele man is coming on Monday morning. Please please please if you have or can borrow a Ukelele, bring it on Monday.

What are you up to?

Great to see some people have visited the blog in their holidays. Spread the word that there are some interesting posts coming. Remember to email me (stephcamp@gmail.com) any information or photos that you would like on the blog.

Tell others what you are doing with your holidays. Leave a comment.

We certainly had a good go at it!

We were aiming to get more people form New Zealand to visit our blog and see what we are up to. Our new NZ visitors increased over the week thanks to those in Savvy 7 spreading the word about our blog. Grace suggested a cake to celebrate and what a great cake it was.

Well done guys . Thanks so much Grace for the cake (and your special Nana too!)

We had a great day in Civic Square

It was great to get into the city and see things that we have never really "seen" before.

My favourite quote from today came when we walked into Civic Square and were admiring the "Fern" sculpture suspended above us. " I've been here lots before but I've never looked up" Anyone want to take ownership of this one?

Thanks so much to the parents who came with us.