Pike River Mine Disaster - My Article

A Gas Explosion - Traps All

One Friday the 19th November 29 men got stuck down in the Pike River Mine. The youngest is only 17 years of age, he was eager to start work at the mine. The oldest miner was a 64 four year old. They are stuck down there because of a gas explosion. If they put a camera down into the mine, they are fearing that they will cause another explosion. The mine is located 46km northeast of GreyMouth. Halfway between GreyMouth and Reefton. The drill has to try and get through 150m of solid rock. A team of Australians are in ChristChurch, should the Mercy Mission need them ?

- Haylee Robben

Athletics Day =]

Tomorrow, 19th November 2010 is Athletics Day. I am going to compete i n every event except for high jump because i FAIL ! My favourite events are Ball Throw and Sprints. I will need to take food, water, hat, sunscreen, and warm clothing. I will hopefully be able to not do high jump !

Cultral Diversity ( HR )

At the moment we have been studying Cutural Diversity. We have to make a powerpoint presentation on a country in pairs. Anthea and I are doing Egypt. We have not yet started our powerpoint presentation. Hopefully we will start it tomorrow =]

Loud Shirt Day !

Today is Loud Shirt Day ! At our school ( St Andrews Middle School ) we are participating in Loud Shirt Day by wearing mufti. We are also wearing loud shirts. Loud shirts are bold and bright shirts or shirts that have writing on them ! This is celebrated nation wide to support the deaf people, to funraise money for them. It is usually a gold coin donation, but they will accept any other money because every cent counts. The money goes towards helping the deaf people like : the little children that are suffering but also it goes towards the adults that are also suffering from being deaf. =]

This is my second Japanese video. This is HR (me) and AC. We say hello and bow then we say our name is ... then we ask each other what is it and we hold up a picture and then finally we say goodbye. I hope you enjoy the video. I did think that i did very well on th is video it is definaltely better than the last i would have to say =]

HR and JS Japanese Dialogue

In our class, our teacher Ms Fraser is teaching us some Japanese. We had to change languages in the middle of the year so it has been very hard. In the video we are saying : hello, how are you and goodbye. I could have done better because i think that we needed to say a lot more in our Japanese dialogue video. But anyway i think i did ok =]

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Maori Video

Our student teacher Ms. Foy is teaching us maori. We have done two sessions of maori with her so far. We have learnt maori numbers and some maori greetings.

Speaking :

I can greet people in maori - never, sometimes,usually,very frequently, always

I can count to ten in maori - never, sometimes,usually,very frequently, always

I can give numbers between 20-100 in maori-never,sometimes,usually, very frequently, always

I was pleased with the part of my video when i had to count to ten in maori because i have learnt how to at my primary school.

I need to work on giving number between 20 - 100 because in have to think about what to say because i am not fluent.

Enjoy my video :)

Clustrmaps

Science Fair

For the science fair i am working with a partner her name is Emma. We might be doing one these subjects : What age remembers the most , What fertilzer works the best, or does the colour of a room affect human behaviar. Me and Emma are doing a board which is a full exhibit, we are both year seven students so we had a choice of doing an induvidual wall chart or a board with a partner or indualvidualy, so we chose to do a full exhibit. I am really looking forward to working on the science fair with emma because it's gonna be really fun and we both haven't entered the science fair before......

What I've learnt this week

On wednesday we had sports options, I went to Contours Gym with some other girls at school. We got to try out Zumba. We did about 6 songs some of the dance moves were really hard. Most of the songs were mexican. I found Zumba really fun...

HR science pre - assesment

This is my science pre assesment i am talking about the rock that i am holding.... Please enjoy but dont laugh at me :)

HR and HC chinese dialogue

This is HR and HC talking in chinese we are saying : Hello , Our telephone numbers , Our favourite foods and drinks and then we both finally say goodbye to each other ... I hope that you all enjoy this video :)

HR and HC chinese dialogue

This is my SAMS Learner T -shirt.
I chose to do all these colours because they are
bright and happy colours. My background colours are the
house colours:Totara , Kowhai , Rata and Matai.

Thinker: At the side i drew some imagination bubbles,because sometimes thinkers have to use there imagination.Also for think i drew a box with a brain on the outside of the box. This represents that some thinkers have to think outside of the box to get the best ideas.And i drew a desk for independence because a good thinker is an independent thinker.

Communicater: I drew a few speech bubbles to represent Communicater, i put those because talking to each other is a way of communicating with one another just like a computer which i have also drawn on my tshirt.

I also drew a world with three people on it because its all about working together,especially around the world.

Chinese Introduction Video

This is me talking chinese. We have been learning chinese in class for about 6 weeks...I think that I did very well even though I've only been learning this language for a short time

So enjoy!! :)

SAMS Learner

SAMS Learner

What I do well

I am good at participating

Why: Because if the school has an sporting event or a game in P.E, i always particpate in whatever we are doing even if it is something that i dont really enjoy doing.

What I dont do well

I am not good at trying new things

Why: Because I'm not confident enough, I wont try new foods, but i will try to learn another language, because thats something that i doenjoy learning.