Mystery Skype - Global Connections

What great fun Mystery Skype is! There are so many different jobs. Photographers take photos. Atlas readers read the atlases and come up with questions for the Inquirers to ask. Question Keepers, keep a record of questions we ask and write them on the whiteboard for everyone to see. Inquirers talk to the opposition and answer and ask the questions. They need to remember to speak clearly and be polite. The Clue Keepers cross out countries on the map and come up with our next questions. Logical Reasoners come up with and decide what the final questions should be. They need to check the questions we've already asked and make sure our questions are the best ones we could ask next.  The Google Mappers use Google Earth and other maps to help find the countries.  As for the Runners, they tell the Logical Reasoners the questions given to them from the other groups and then tell the Inquirers what question to ask the opposition.

So far, we have Skyped a school in Vancouver, Canada, a school in Kapiti, New Zealand and another school near Los Angeles, in the United States of America.

It is so much fun and a highlight of our week. It's important to work as a Team, show good Sportsmanship, and represent ourselves, whanau, class and school well.  In other words...we need to show our Mahora Values!

This is what we received today from the teacher of the class we Skyped.

By Bianca and Ezrah