Savvy 7

Snow in the Hutt Valley

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leave a comment and share your experience

Savvy Sorted!

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It has been an amazingly busy term with lots going on. Have a fantastic holiday everyone, leave a comment about what's up! Seeya!

Watch out for the last Savvy 7 photo tomorrow!

Camp Crosswords

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Use this link to make your own crossword puzzle to challenge others.

1 Day to go...

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We are off to camp on Wednesday. Yipee! Make sure you have got everything.

Lots has been happening

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Check out just some of the things we have been up to. Can you tell an interesting story about each one?

This will help your apostrophe knowledge and possibly your punctuation activity

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Really challenge your Geometry knowledge

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Have you ever really thought about it?

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Check out this little movie.

Add to the list....

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Writing without punctuation is like.....

a world without shade.
music without sharps and flats
a week without Saturday and Sunday

Callenge yourself with this Punctuation activity.

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Punctuation just got a whole lot clearer!

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What is your favourite punctuation clip. Let us know!

What do you think?

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Click on the image to read the full article.

Wonder what the statistics would be if we did this at our school. Anyone got any ideas about something like this for book week next week?

Your Favourite Pop Songs

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The Plastic Bag

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I loved this one! What message does it send to you?

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The Shoe Analogy is back

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We are really thinking about our use of reading strategies. We realised that some are easier to use than others in different situations.

What strategies would you put with each of these shoes? Why?

A comment from your Holidays

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A few Holiday Pics to share

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OK! Who is this? On holiday ? Where? What are the clues?

What makes a great blog?

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Below are links to the 5 finalist in the blog of the year competition from the Interface Magazine.

Let's use our criteria for what makes a great blog and see who we should vote for.

http://mssroomd.blogspot.com/

http://theinsandouts.co.nz/

http://discovery-bdclass.blogspot.com/

http://super7scoopers.edublogs.org/

http://rockets13rss.blogspot.com/

So who is Savvysaurus getting friendly with?

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If you can be the first to comment explaining who is with Mrs C and Savvysaurus then you will get a very special signed item. Who will be first?

We made it!

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Savvysaurus was a very good flyer. The plane was full of teachers ready to experience something new.

Savvy helped select some costume pieces. He is also very excited now as he is sitting in a huge auditorium full of hundreds of teachers.

Savvy 7's, ask Saurus a question about his experience and I'm sure he will reply very soon.

Hope Savvy Saurus doesn't have a fear of flying.

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Keep watching to see his adventures over the next 4 days in Christchurch!

Here's a fun reading activity

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We learnt a lot about the coming election

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Today we had the real voting experience. Kirsty and Sade presented our activity well at assembly and here is their comic life presentation that went with their speech. Well done girls.

It is Voting day in Savvy 7

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look out for more info.

What is this all about?

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Jump Rope Anyone?

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Our Class Mascot is.......

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Mr Dinosaur! After great decision making and voting, Mr Dinosaur won by just a feather. What feathers?? I think he needs a name. Make a comment to suggest a name then we can vote on that.

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A huge increase in comments to our blog

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Some Amazing comments have appeared on our blog. I registered on the "comments 4 kids" site and we are now being visited by students from around the world. They are all part of the "Comments 4 Kids" idea and have left some very useful suggestions. Thanks a heap.

A big THANK YOU to Mr C ( not my husband) in Texas America for directing his students to our blog.

Rules for Comments4Kids
1. Relevant
2. Positive
3. Comment only when you have something to say
4. Always use good conventions i.e. punctuation etc.

Click on this and have a conversation.

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Type with me!

What a day

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It is always exciting at Normandale. Today was dress-up day for Jasmin! We also had yet another successful 50c fundraiser. Some classes enjoyed the sunshine while learning about cricket. Phew!

Mrs Campbell was working hard this morning

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This was the story told by Mrs Campbell when she got back to school today after lunch.

Once upon a time there was a teacher who caught the train into town. She got there early so managed to have a coffee with her husband before she was ushered up to the 17th floor of a very flash building.

The teacher was greeted by some very friendly people who welcomed her into the large board room which had an amazing view of the beautiful Wellington Harbour.

( Mrs Campbell went on .... and on... and on...)
Finally the story ended with a game of Jeopardy. The answer was $300. We had to come up with the question. After lots of great attempts she told us.

"How much money did Mrs Campbell get this morning to bring back to school for offering some ideas and advice on a developing site ! YIPEE!

Savvy 7 made a great list of books that they would like to see in the library from the $300.

Dotty dots

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I found this cool site on Motoroa's blog. Great idea for www. Click on the image and take a look!

Typing Challenge

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Here is a game that will challenge your typing.

Have a go and post a comment to say where you got to. Good luck

Daniel's great Passion Project

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Check out Daniel's great combining of his love of lego and his love of language. Gotta love it Daniel.

Art lesson on You Tube

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Check out this wonderful art work that was inspired by watching a tutorial on You Tube.

The 10 ways series

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I have been thinking of ways to increasing our love of blogging. I am challenging you to get to the blog and add one idea before we hit 10.

Add a comment and number your response.

What are the best things to put on blogs that show what we have been doing?

so go for it.... add your comment and number it.

I will start you off.

1. Add a video clip of something we have been doing.

Let's drive and explore Ratio

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Squares

Triangles

How is your spelling?( www)

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I love this quote..... My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places –
Chocolate fish for correct or closest guess.
Hint: a character

Christchurch Earthquake

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Click on the image to see the earthquakes that have continued in Christchurch. This was the site that we looked at at Assembly on Friday. WOW!

Ukulele man would be proud

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Today at Assembly the Savvy 7 Ukulele Orchestra performed. Loved it guys! Great effort and loved your extra touches. Keep up the hard work. When is the next performance?

Garageband in Action

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Today some of the skilled Savvy 7 "Garageband" composers shared their skills with the next group from Room 9. They are quite talented when making music that has many layers. Watch out for some examples to come.

Comic LIfe Creations

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Hey I have seen some fantastic examples of making information coming alive through Comic Life. Check out the ins & outs creations. Give them some positive feedback. I have posted a few of ours to show some different ways.

Looking at our Actions!

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We have been learning alot about the R's. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair, Repurpose etc.

Today we looked at our actions so see what proportion we do of each R. Interesting findings!

What is this telling you about our actions now and how we could improve our actions.

So what was the science behind that?

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We had a fantastic time at the Fonterra Science Roadshow. Look at these pics and see if you can explain the science behind them.

I know fractions is about a lot more than pizza......

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But is this not the best pizza fractions game you have ever played?

One condition to playing this game! Don't be hungry and you must answer the question below once you have played it.

What is the skill that the game is teaching us?

Ukulele Man is back

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Make sure your Ukulele is at school on Monday as Mr Ukulele is back and we have sorted some technical issues! Yipee. Can't wait for Monday.

A Winning Creation

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Well done Grace. This is Grace's winning piece of art work completed at GKP. She won the art award.
What do you think the title of the work could be. Send in your suggestions and let's hear Grace's opinions on them.
Fantastic work Grace.

Savvy 7 please complete the form

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What's going on in Savvy 7?

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Leave a comment and explain what you think is happening.

A Brief Visitor

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Today as we were writing about every 1o year old having a mobile phone, we had a visitor. Here is a picture of Clinton who is helping with some of our computer issues. He happily showed us his cool iphone and also his ipad which is in the picture. Looking forward to seeing some of the cool things it can do.

Why is it important to learn to swim?

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After 2 busy weeks of swimming, we are considering this.
What do you think?

Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra

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Poor Ruth

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A broken arm!! Not good.

How about you tell us about it Ruth or send me a photo to put on the blog.

Look forward to hearing form you.

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Check out these decimals

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Decimal Day
squares and hexagons

Good News Savvy 7

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Well after 2 full days of scenarios that you never want to happen, I have the qualification required to take 60 children on camp. But...... I plan on no one putting me to the test. Ask me a question about my learning!

First Aid Course

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Hi Guys
I am at a First Aid Course for Monday and Tuesday. I will be checking in and updating you with what I am learning. Have fun at school.
Mrs C

Making a huge effort with their weekly responsiblity

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Thanks you two for the huge effort! It is not easy keeping this area tidy but it certainly makes the job easier for all. Well done.

Is Plastic Fantastic?

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A Fantastic Fraction Site

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Check out this cool site

Listen to this

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The challenge is on

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Yesterday the plank challenge was on. Check out these abs of steel!

Some Great 'Rubbish' Ideas Using Comic Life

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Click on the image to go to the page. See Mrs Campbell for your personal login and password

and some more time...

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Hone’s Time

Hone is an eight year old boy, living in Auckland. In a week he spends:
One and three quarter hours eating breakfast
One hour and ten minutes brushing his teeth
35 minutes getting dressed
40 minutes travelling to school
Do you believe these statements about Hone? Which ones are reasonable and which
ones are not?

Time...... have we ever enough?

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Sally’s Time

Sally is an eight year old girl, living in Wellington. In a week she spends:
3 and a half hours eating breakfast
14 minutes brushing her teeth
7 minutes getting dressed
One and a quarter hours traveling to school
Do you believe these statements about Sally? Which ones are reasonable and which
ones are not?

Awesome Synthesizing

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Today we made some fantastic Biopics by synthesising the information we read. That means to read something and take the bits that we read and put them together to be able to look at it in a new way.

Check out these 2 posters. Maybe you could go and make your own about a different famous person. Email me your wonderful posters.

Mr B is nearly back

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Can you find the link to his new blog?
Clue..... where you would think it is but under a different name!

Swimming Starts

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Monday is the first day of our 2 week swimming block. Yes, that's right, we will be swimming every day. What great fun.

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Check out this global maths challenge.

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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

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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?

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

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Collaborative Home Learning

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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

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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

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What do you think of our new toilets?

Awesome Ukulele Learning

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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.

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

What shall we call this game?

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Maths Shoes Voice thread

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Have some fun with this puzzle.

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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

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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

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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?

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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!

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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

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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.

This is like a wordle!

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Where do yu think these words may have come from?? Leave a comment!

Amazing Character Writing

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We have been sharing some amazing character writing that we did with Mrs Piters. Some examples will follow. Please comment and explain 1 thing that you remember that really has improved your character writing.

Interpreting Data

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Create 5 questions that could be answered by interpreting this graph

We're going on a sculpture hunt.....I'm not....

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Thinking about Reading Questionaire

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Look at these Statistics

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Savvy 7 filled in the form ( see below) and these are the results.

What do they tell you?

How many of Savvy 7 own or have access to a Ukelele?

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2010-06-26

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Olly is a good friend of mine and I thought you would like to see his very entertaining speech! He was the overall winner of the Yr 5/6 category at Muritai School!

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Our Passions are Popular

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Georgia impressed us with her Passion Power Point this morning. Great going! She also shared this impressive photo that her mum had taken while at work! Cool job!

I wonder is she would come and tell us a bit more about her job and the skills she uses every day?

What's in your lunchbox today?

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This is a shot of our board after collecting data on a tally chart. You can't see the question but it was "How many different items are there in your lunch box today." Our graphs are coming soon.