Melville Intermediate - Waikato Symphonic Band @ MIS

This is the theme to 'Mission: Impossible' as performed at Melville Intermediate School on Thursday 29th of August by the Waikato Schools Symphonic Band.  Filmed by Chloe from Room Five and edited by Josh from Room Five.
Symponic Band - Mission Impossible from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate Vs. Hamilton Junior High School

On Tuesday 27th of August 2013 a group of Melville Intermediate students went to Tokoroa for the Intermediate Schools Waikato tournament.  There were two groups of students from Melville Intermediate the Y7 team and the 8A team and some extras.   The Year Eights played five games and the Year Seven students played four games because they had a bye.   The Year Eights won two games and lost three games but didn't make it into the finals (it was only the top team).   The year seven team tried their best to win but unfortunatly they didn't.

This video is highlights are from the game between Melville Intermediate School and Hamilton Junior High School.  Filmed by Briar and Biancas Mum and edited by Briar and Bianca. 
Vs.Hamiltion Junor ghigh School 28/813 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Waikato Schools Symphonic Band

On the 29th of August a band named Waikato Schools Symphonic band practises at our school hall every Thursday after school made a performance of a few songs before they went on a big tour around New Zealand. The first song they played was Born this way by Lady Gaga they didnt tell us but im pretty sure most of us figured it out. They also played Mission Impossible, Firework by Katie Perry, and some others i've never herd of before. It was an amazing performance and we hope they go well on their tour.
Born This Way - WSSB 29/8/13 @ MIS from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Vs. Te Awamutu Netball 27/8/13

On Tuesday 27th August 2013 the Waikato Inter Intermediate Competititon took place in Tokoroa.  Melville Intermediate had a Y7 and Y8 team in the two competitions.  This is footage of our Y8 Girls playing in their first game against Te Awamutu Intermediate.  Melville are in their traditional Green/Red strip and Te Awamutu are in the Gold and Maroon.  Filmed by Bianca's Mum and edited by Bianca and Briar.

Melville Intermediates Y8 Girls team on Tuesday had wins against Hamilton Junior High School 8-5 and Morrinsville Intermediate 7-6.  They had close losses against Fairfield 5-10, Cambridge Middle School 3-8 and Te Awamutu Intermediate 4-9.   Well done to Maeroa Intermediate who dominated in the final against Cambridge Middle School and won 18-8.
Vs. Te Awamutu Int, Girls Y8 27/8/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Netball Vs. Te Awamutu Int. Y7

This video is highlights of Melville Intermediate Y7 students playing against Te Awamutu Intermediate Y7 students at the Inter Intermediate Waikato Netball Finals at Tokoroa which was held yesterday..  The filming is by Biancas Mum and was edited and put together by Bianca and Briar.

The Melville Intermediate Y7 Girls team had losses against Fairfield Intermediate 2-18, Cambridge Middle School 4-12, Te Awamutu Intermediate 2-13 and Morrinsville Intermediate 2-6.  Our warmest congratulations to Te Awamutu Intermediate who were victorious in the final against Tokoroa 12-7.
TeAwamutuY7 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - two Students save an Endangered Moth!

On Wednesday 28th August Room Five were returning from the Gym to move onto the Netball Courts.  It was then Harry and Elizabeth made an exciting discovery. they had spotted a large monsterus green thing stuck in a spider web, and they were gobsmacked  at the sight of it. in less than a second a crowed gatherd  around to see the thing.

It was a Puriri Moth.   They are endangered.  They the caterpillars eat the leaves of the Puriri Tree.  Adults only live for two months.  It was 5.1cm long.  Owen and Deighton decided to save the moth and carefully placed it on a garden. It was then released.

Melville Intermediate - 8C's Helpful Video.

Those of you following along as our 'Room with a View' task has developed will have seen us develop our two dimensional model of 8C Selwyn House, Christchurch.  The language of Geometry and the directional use of language have been key features in our developing our understanding of their classroom.  Today we were very pleased to be aware of a video response to our short movie that we posted earlier this week.   Even better than that, instead of simply walking around thier classroom, 8C from Selwyn House has responded with their own two dimensional model of thier classroom! Thanks so much to our friends!

Melville Intermediate - Jamies Minecraft Collaboration

As part of our viewing of the quests from Mr Woods Minecraft Kids Quest Site the students from Room Five were asked to carry out one of the tasks and then write an explanation of the task that they had completed and detail another task that could be created by the site.   This work is written by Jamie from Room Five and the pictures with the post are screen shots of her work.

MINECRAFT CHALLENGE

Learning intention: I am writing explanation for my choices.

1.Minecraft because minecraft is something I enjoyed doing and I always have fun creating houses. My challenge is to make a house for four people which is one one of my favourite things to do on mine craft.

2.My challenge is that im not use to playing on the computer so building this will be different and complicated. The controls are hard too.

3. Yes, I would choose a different Quest because then I will be giving myself a better challenge. Making house’s is fun but next time I would want a bigger challenge.

4. Another Minecraft because its one of my favourite things to do. A new Quest to do would be to make a hospital or something ,more challenging maybe even a hotel. My suggestion is to Make a hospital for at least 10 paitents. With waiting rooms and play areas for the kids. Also with at least 3 storys. This would be educational because I could teach you how to work the hospital and how it works. 

The questions based around this writing were - why did you choose Minecraft, why did you choose the particular challenge, would  you choose a different one, What could be a new quest that you could develop/work on.

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 - Miriams Magical Moments

Miriams Magical Moments is the invididual student blog of a former student from Mrs Yollis classroom page.   Miriams just returned to school for the 2013/4 school year. 

This is an outstanding individual students blog that is a great example of a someones work.  You can see this wonderful site by clicking here.

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 - Special Cheer Performance

On Friday at Melville Intermediate School we had a special performance from the Melville Intermediate School Cheer Team.  Fresh back from the Winter Olympics Competition at Totara Springs, Melville Intermediate took the opportunity for our 2013 Winter Olympics Squad to perform thier competition winning cheer to the school.  On Friday the schoo hall was kept open at lunchtime and the Winter Olympics Squad, second overall and Cheer Winnters performed to the class.  This is a video of that performance that was recorded and edited by Chloe from Room Five.
Winter Olympics 2013 MIS Performance from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Vs. Maeroa Intermediate Boys Rugby

On Tuesday Melville Intermediate competed in the Open Grade Boys Rugy Waikato Inter Intermediate Competition.  This is footage of the Melville Intermediate Boys playing against Maeroa Intermediate School.  Melville Intermediate were desperate to win having already lost their previous game to Te Awamutu Intermediate, however they faced a formidable Maeroa team who had a significant advantage in the forwards.  Filmed by Miss Land from Room Six.  This was edited and prepared for publishing by Daniel, Levi and Nathan G from Room Five.  Melville are in the Green with red collars, Maeroa are in the Blue and Red.
Vs. Maeroa Intermediate 20/8/13 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!