Melville Intermediate - Commenting

This weeks commenting tasks is to comment 'home and away'.   Firstly please ensure that you have completed the commenting on a least one of (set of two) videos from the New Town Second Grade Superstars and their videos about New Zealand.

Then you need to choose a New Zealand class linked through our website.  You might want to check out Miss T Classroom, Open the Door to B4, Point England School, Room Six from Melville Intermediate or our Aotearoa Quadblogging Buddies - Room Fifteen at Tawa Intermediate or 8C @ Selwyn House.   Choose a piece of work created by students at this site and leave a comment that is appropirate once you have looked at the work.  Don't forget to complete the URL and identify yourself with our address.

You also need to choose an 'away' site, that is a class page that is linked to us thats located somewhere around the world.  You could choose to go to the United Kingdom are look at A Room with a View Class Two, South Africa and Miss Tyler Smiths Class, Mrs Yollis Classroom in the USA, our friends in Grade Two in Ireland, If Only the Best Birds Sang or Mr Millers Class in Califorina and see what they've been up to in Minecraft.

Melville Intermediate - PES Student Blogs

Josephine from Point England School

Its the holidays in New Zealand, our students are not due back in the classroom until Monday, May 6th. However in the meantime there's some other great sites to check out. Mr Webb's been active online and amazed by the work that's going on, in the holidays, from a couple of students from Point England School in Auckland. There's an entire school of wonderful blogs at work up there, we've been very lucky to have visitors from their pages and plenty of comments. We'd recommend that if you are looking for a great students site that you check out the blogs from Josephine.  She's made over a hundred posts this term, and there's a great variety of writing about many different topics.  There wouldn't be many class pages that post a hundred times a term, so this is a fantastic effort.  Another thing is to have a look at her posts during the holiday, she's working independently in her own time to publish to her blog.  Amazing motivation, dedication and effort.  Well worth a look.

Sela from Point England School

Another great indivdual site that you can visit is Sela's  page.  Again like Josephine, Sela is posting in the school holidays in her own time.  She's written about a variety of topics and events that have occurred Netball, the Holidays (which are boring because nothing is happening apparently!) and suggestions about great learning sites that you can visit. 

If your a student from Room Five at Melville Intermediate School, reading this in the holidays you can claim a special, edible prize at the start of Term Two.  You will need to visit either of the pages listed above and leave a comment (you can claim the prize twice if you leave two comments) and follow the regular comment writing procedure.

Melville Intermediate - Commenting Tuesday

Today you have a choice of visiting one of the following class pages.  They have just started for the year like us so you need to locate a piece of students work that interests you and lave a comment.  You need to remember what is expected from your comment terms of the format, and how you leave a question and also remember to leave your comment signed in the appropirate way.   The class pages you can choose from are 8c in Christchurch, Room 9 Vardon School in Hamilton,  Room Six at Hawea Flat. or you can visit Mokoia Intermediate in Rotorua. 

Melville Intermediate - Tasks for Week Nine for Room Eight

Week nine is upon us with just this week and another week to go before the end of term three holidays.  For your tasks this week there are some slightly different things to do.  Firstly you need to go to this site here, which is entitled 'Draw a Stickman' its been brought to our attention by the wonderful Allanhk from Appleby School.  You can click on this link to go to her wonderful class page.  Secondly once you've completed that task you need to complete some commenting.  The commenting this week needs to be at the three class pages listed, needs to follow the correct procedure and format and needs to be completed by this Friday.  You are going to travel to the USA and leave comments on Mrs Yollis Class page in California, Mr C's Class blog in Missouri, USA and Mr McClungs class page in the USA.  These are all teachers who teach at different levels so take care to select a piece of work that you like or find interesting and leave an appropriate comment.

Finally its the World Cup in New Zealand for Rugby Union at present, one of the best reviews I've seen on the world cup has come from Matthew in Room Seven, St Marys School in the South Island.  Visit his review of Week Two of the World Cup and leave a World Cup related comment or question by clicking here.

Melville Intermediate - School Holidays Week One

Thank you for your visit to our class page, its currently the school holidays in New Zealand.

Our students have another week of holidays next week and will return to school the following Monday. If your leaving a comment the students will be able to reply to your feedback from that point onwards.

Kindest regards, Mr Webb and Room 8, Melville Intermediate School.

Melville Intermediate - International Blogging Challenge

One of the exciting events that is coming up soon (next week I believe) for our students is the international blogging challenge. There's a link to it here.

You can read all about it through the site but there are hundreds of students taking part and its going to really be a positive for the students of Room 8!

It will mean a lot of work but our students will be thrilled to be involved!