Melvlle Intermediate - Is this 8C Selwyn House??

 We've been working on perspective and point of view for Mathematics and using 'Room with a View' from Figure it Out Mathematics Curriculum Level 3.   We've utilized our Quadblogging Aotearoa buddies for this task and we've spent a week asking and questioning about what we think that the classroom looks like.  This process has involved questioning, constructing a two dimensional model from the responses that we've received, constructing a three dimension model based on our two dimensional diagrams and we are in the process of refining/correcting the models.  This is the effort of Jamie and Elizabeth from Room Five.  Is this 8C Selwyn House?

Melville Intermediate - Is this 8C Selwyn House?

Today for Mathematics we continued our classroom building process... of our Aotearoa Quadblogging buddies 8C from Selwyn House... today we used cubes to make a three dimensional model of what we think the classroom looks like.  The process has involved detailed questioning, the construction of a 2d model and this is the next stage in the process.  We're looking for feedback from our friends, and then we are looking to refine the model and then publish it in a 3d model in Minecraft.  This video is presented by Damien from Room Five and was filmed in class this morning.  Damien created this as an explanation piece.
Selwyn House 3d Model from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Selwyn House: Class Modelling

Selwyn House Collaboration - slideshow

Melville Intermediate - What does Selwyn House look like?

 This morning in our class we have been designing 2-D models of 8cs class but we have come across a problem, Lots of us have asked the same questions but we have all been getting different answers so we have no idea at all what theyre classroom loos like. could you please all decide on a set of answers so we can design your classroom.

- How many doors are in the classroom? - some of the students say that there are two doors in the classroom and some have said that there are three.  Elizabeth from Room Five thinks that this is because one of the doors is a double door and the other door is a fire door.  

- How many windows are there in Selwyn House in 8c?  We had two different answers from the students.  Some of the students said that there was seventeen windows and others said that there were nine windows.  We thought that this could have been because some of the windows were double windows.

- Are the desks set out around the teachers desk or in a cluster of four desks? We thought that we were told that all of the desks were in a circle around the teachers desk in the middle and others thought that the desks were in the top left hand corner of the class, in a group.

- Where is the coffee table and the couches in the classroom? We think that they are located in the bottom right hand corner of the classroom (the South East corner) because that's the only space in the classroom that we couldnt allocate.  The middle picture in this series is Elizabeth and Jamie working on a two dimensional map of what they think Selwyn House in Christchurch is like!

Melville Intermediate - A fantastic Quadblogging Aotearoa Collaboration

As part of Geometry this term our students have been excited with the prospect of constructing scale models of other classrooms around New Zealand involving (first) 3d models and then Minecraft.  The students are currently at the questioning stage.  Thanks to our friends at Tawa Intermediate, Selwyn House in Christchurch and Mt Pleasant School our students have left comments on their class or individual blogs and sought information about the classroom layout. 

Already the activity is paying learning dividends because a number of our students have realised that their questions need to be more detailed and more direct so that the 2d plan of the layout can be more accurate.  The great thing about the blogging aspect

of this is that an online conversation between the students is being recorded in the commenting that is going to allow its progression and development to be easily monitored.   In the next few days we should complete our students two dimensional drafts which we are then going to send to our Aotearoa Quadblogging buddies.  From there the learning communication and conversations should develop further.  Stay tuned.

Melville Intermediate - Quadblogging/Minecraft Collaboration

This term in class we're looking at Geometry as our major subject in Mathematics.  Currently were working on a variety of tasks, one of which is from Figure It Out Geometry, Level Three.  In this task

'Room With A View' (which is from page thirteen if you've got the book in front of you).  Requires you to model a classroom using a speaker phone and reconstruct the classroom through the instructions of the person that you've spoken to.

We thought we'd take it one step further.  We've left comments to our Aotearoa Quadbloggoing Buddy Classes to ask for help with this.  We're going to use the contacts that we made with Selwyn House, Mt Pleasant School and Tawa Intermediate.  We've either left comments or are leaving comments that will give us enough information to construct models using Geometric language.  Over the next week we'll receive replies from our Quadblogging buddies, and then we'll construct the classroom based on our replies.  The construction of the classroom is taking two forms - we're going to draw it, what we think it is like, construct a model of the class, and top it off by building the classroom belonging to our buddies in Minecraft.  We're then going to share the models with the students who are in the classrooms.  A great collaboration that we'll keep updating in the next week and a bit!

Melville Intermediate - Selwyn House inspire our writing

Today in class we were looking for an energizer with our writing.   We were looking for a problem to solve or something to contribute too.  Of course our class is signed up for AoteaQuadblogging with three other classes from around New Zealand and we saw that our friends from Selwyn House in Christchurch had posted their new unit of study - but even better, posted a Google Doc of a series of problem and how to solve them.  We took the problems, modified them slightly, and then used them as our writing task for today. 

8C ECC - slideshow

Melville Intermediate - Week One, Term Three, Commenting.

Between now and Friday you need to visit the following sites and look at the work the students have posted to start the term.  You need to leave at least one comment to one of the pages.  Remember that you comment must follow the correct format, that it includes your first name only, our class and URL that the comment reflects that you have read or viewed the post in detail and asks at least one question at the end of it.  All of the classes that are listed are on our sidebar of classroom links or you can click directly on the URL below.

Miss Tyler Smiths Class from South Africa have set up a number of posts and links to other sites.  Some of your had your inquiry from Term Two based around aspects of Egypt, they've got some great links to the BBC Pyramid Building Site.  You can click on their class page at this address.

Room Seven at Vardon School in Hamilton, New Zealand have been busy posting at the end of last term and always have some fantastic work and posts on their site.  You can visit their page to look by clicking on this link here.

Our Quadblogging buddies from 8C in Selwyn House, Christchurch have started their new unit of inquiry, and this term they are looking at 'Sharing Our Planet' although its only the first week of school they've already used Google Drive to share the starting of their unit., which is something that we are going to do this morning in class, just before interval.  

Mrs Mel B's class from Tokomaru School like us are doing Netball for Physical Education for the rest of the term, they're also very luck that they are having representatives from Netball Manawatu come and run the sessions with their students.  You can che here.
ck out what they've been doing by clicking on the link

Room Twelve from New River Primary School are looking at 'Cultures of the World' this term.  They've started by learning a Samoan Sasa and having experts coming in for the tutition.  You can read about that and see the pictures.

Finally we can't forget our friends from Point England School.   Room Thirteen are very good communicators and have a wonderful class page, as do the students and other classes.  You can view their work on 'Lifes a Stage' for Term Three by looking at their Immersion assembly here