The Amager s International School Newsletter 2006 February Issue nr.2 Christmas Show a Success! Amager`s International School Address: Engvej 141, 2300 Copenhagen S. Denmark Tel.: 32 58 72 42 Fax: 32 84 72 42 Web.: www.a-i-s.dk E-mail: office@a-i-s.dk The 3rd class & company dazzle the audience with several songs taught by Maybritt Nyrup. The Christmas Show has once again been a success due to the wonderful presentations from the different classes, support and donations from the parents to the Lottery, Raffle, Loppemarket and Café. This year however was a bit different to previous years, as it had a main charitable purpose of supporting the earthquake victims in Pakistan by donating the profit from the event to the cause. Thanks to your help we managed to collect 5000 kr! The 6-7th class presented the donation to the Red Cross Communications Director, Klaes Hammundsen. He spoke of how the International Red Cross has currently distributed supplies to the survivors through: food, water, Continued on next page In this issue: Christmas Show 1 A.I.S Charity 2 Praktik Ugen 3 Experimentarium 4 Pancake Day 5 Radiant Rodents 6 Movie Review & Poems Fun Page 8 En notits fra jeres studie- -vejledere! 7 Success Stories 9 10
Page 2 AIS Newsletter clothes, blankets and tents. There has already been 5000 tons of food, water and clothes distributed, as well as 460,000 blankets, 91,000 covers, and 45,000 tents. This is a copy of the pressemeddelelse that was sent out to the local newspapers in Amager. Pressemeddelelse: 13. december 2005 Internationale skoleelever indsamler til jordskælvsofrene i Pakistan! Det er fedt at hjælpe, udtaler elever fra 6.-7. klasse på Amager s International School. I samarbejde med rektor har de arrangeret, at overskuddet af årets juleshow lørdag d. 17. december går til jordskælvs-ofrene i Pakistan. Amager s International School afholder juleshow hvert år, hvor de både har show, loppemarked, lotteri, julepynts-salg og café. Normalt går overskuddet til at købe nye materialer eller til at friske faciliteterne op. Men i år er det anderledes! Da eleverne i 6.-7. klasse talte om dette års show, kom de på, at overskuddet burde gå til jordskælvsofrene i Pakistan. De mener, at vi i den vestlige verden bør gøre, hvad vi kan for at hjælpe til. 4 elever fra klassen fik rektor Carolyn Murphy med på idéen, og inden længe var hele klassen godt i gang med projektet: nogle lavede plakater med facts om katastrofen, andre lavede eksklusivt julepynt til salg, mens Osama Badawy og Cherina Hilmy terpede deres tale, som skal åbne og lukke juleshowet. De lægger i deres tale vægt på, at vi sammen kan gøre en forskel. Da skolen har 95 % tosprogede elever og en del elever fra Pakistan, er det klart, at eleverne er berørt. Eleverne vil gøre en forskel og de kan gøre en forskel! Here is the picture with the boys from 6th-7th giving the 5,000 kr. cheque to Comminications Director, Klaes Hammundsen!. In addition, three mobile health clinics, nine flying air medics with doctors and nurses, and two field hospitals are in operation to attend to the sick and wounded. There has been 150,000 survivors that have been attended to since the first three months after the disaster. Osama og Cherina udtaler: Det er fedt at hjælpe nogen! Hvis vi kan hjælpe til med at give nogen tag over hovedet eller måske endda redde menneskeliv med lægehjælp, er det fedt. Det er vores pligt at hjælpe de fattige de rige skal jo hjælpe de fattige. Lidt for os betyder meget for dem! Yderligere oplysninger: Sevinc Aktas og Waslah Mansha, 6.-7. klasse: 32 58 72 42 Klasselærer Charline Astrupgaard: 32 58 72 42 He also said that it costs less than 1 kr. to clean 10 ltr of water, and that one could only survive three days without water, but three weeks without food. Together we have all made a difference, and that is the most important thing. Written by 6-7th class This is a copy of the letter from The Danish Red Cross to thank us for our donation.
Page 3 AIS Newsletter 8.Klasse historier fra praktik ugen I praktik ugen var jeg praktikant i en thai restaurant i Griffenfeldsgade, Nørrebro. Jeg var kok. Jeg havde min egen afdeling, hvor jeg skulle lave forårsrulle og rejer. De første to dage, (mandag, var der lukket) hvor jeg var i køkkenet for at lave mad. Hver morgen skulle jeg forberede grøntsagen, ved at hakke den. De sidste to dage var jeg bartenderen, hvor jeg serverede drinks til kunderne. Det var ret sjovt at være der. Jeg fik ca. 900 kr. fra min chef. I min fremtid har jeg planer om at være kok, og have min egen restaurant. - James Herskov I did my praktik placement at SATS Motions Center. I chose this place as I like to work out and keep fit. I was in praktik for a week, everyday from 8.00 to 15.00. It was tough, but I made it through. I had to solve some problems with computers and had a lot of paper work to do. Sometimes if I wasn t too busy, I could attend some exercise classes. I really enjoyed being there and I have received a lot of knowledge on some courses to become a personal trainer. Jeg var i praktik, som medarbejder i en Metro butik. Min chef var en flink fyr, og meget hjælpsom. Jeg mødte op kl. 9.00-16.00 i mandags, 8.00-16.00 i tirsdags, 6.00-14.00 i onsdags, 8.00-16.00 i torsdags og 13.00-21.00 i fredags. Mit arbejde i praktik ugen var at sætte nye varer op, hjælpe kunderne og lave trimning. Det har været meget sjovt, jeg hyggede mig meget! - Sina Hadi Sohi I worked in a canteen during the praktik week. I have worked before, but in a real job. At first I was just stocking things and cleaning a bit around, but afterwards I started serving some of the customers. There was a book full of prices, and it was difficult to find the prices at times. Sometimes I couldn t find them. After a while I started to get the hand of things and that was good. There is one important thing that I learned during praktik week, and that is to be prepared for anything while working. Not everything turns out the way you want or expect it. I did have fun though during the praktik week. - Kevin Martinelli - Rajveer Singh
2006 February Issue nr.2 Page 4 Go go Gadget Girls! Students try and taste food while holding their nose. The food tastes different. Try! Trip To The Experimentarium Students discover the amazing gadgets and learn things they never knew about science! Lil Mo discovers how it feels to have his head as the main course! Euh! Taking a break from it all. All the gadgets and gizmos can get a bit tiring! We have had a great day at the Experimentarium. There were so many exciting things to play with and we have learned so much! It was very interesting just to sit down on a chair, look at a mirror, push a button and within minutes have a nice card printed with your picture on it, with data about your body that you could study and measure later on. There was also a machine that we put our arm in that measured our blood pressure and other machines that measured how strong our muscles were. We fed a robot with food being in the form of a CD, and we could see which foods were healthy and not healthy for our body. Then a girl at a little bar with many vegetables and fruits asked us to taste a piece of different types of food with our nose closed using our two fingers. We found out that food did not taste the same, so we learned how important it is to be able to smell food in order to get the taste. There was a stationary bicycle which we could cycle on, and after cycling a certain distance, we could get a free drink. There were also some big squares you could step on, that had the sounds of a piano when you stepped on them. There was a funny soap bubble show; it is interesting that when one has soap on the hand, the bubble does not get broken. There were so many interesting things to play with at the Experimentarium, and both classes had fun and learned a lot of new things. We highly recommend the place! Written by 4A & 5-6th class
2006 February Issue nr.2 Page Side 5 Second Class Have Pancake Day Ingredients: - Eggs - Milk - Flour - Sugar - Salt - Baking powder - Butter or oil - and of course an appetite! Humpdy Dumpty had a great fall...straight into the bowl! Preparation: Sift together 2 cups of flour, 2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, and 1/2 a teaspoon of salt. In a separate bowl, combine one egg and 1 1/2 cups of milk; add to flour mixture, stirring only until it becomes smooth. Blend in melted butter or oil. Cook on a hot, greased pan, using about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake. Cook until brown on one side and around edge; turn and brown the other side. Add jam, syrup or sugar topping for that extra delicious taste! Recipe for pancakes serves around 4 people. You can always add more ingredients of course, if you are making pancakes for a lot of people. That is what we did in our class. Heh heh! Good luck and bon appetite! Chef Stefanie shows how it is done. Second class become master chefs as they make their pancakes all by themselves! By Angelo del Valle, 2nd Class Teacher
Page 6 AIS Newsletter Radiant Rodents of A.I.S Name: Browny Breed: Golden Hamster Age: 1 1/2 years old Lives: Second Class Room Likes: Kids, honey snacks, fruits, exercise in the maze, exploring, playing and SLEEPING! Dislikes: Loud noise, people fighting over him, techno, and lack of sleep! Browny lives in the 2nd Class and loves attention and kids. If you want to visit him, feel free to come by. Please, just tell the teacher first. Thanks! 4B s Ørkenrotter Vi fik vores ørkenrotter for 1 1/2 år siden. Der var de små, bløde og meget søde. Vi skulle lære at passe dem og give dem mad. Vi skulle også lære at gøre rent i buret. Vi skulle lave et projekt om dyrene. Vores mor og far skulle komme og høre om det. Vi synes stadig at de er søde og vi holder dem også engang imellem. Når der er ferie har en af os dem med hjem for at passe dem. Vi har lært dem godt at kende og vi elsker dem meget. Hilsen 4B
2006 February Issue nr.2 Page 7 Dawn of The Dead Movie Review The movie is about people who turn into some kind of zombies. No one knows how this zombie thing started, but when it did, it got worse and worse. When a zombie (human eater) bites a person, that person transforms into a zombie too, and starts to search for human meat. The main actress is a nurse, who gets attacked, but escapes. Unfortunately, her husband doesn t. Throughout the movie she meets some nice people, and they let her stay with them at a mall. They have food, clothes to wear, and other things they need. The zombies wanted them, but why just them? The zombies wanted them because they were the only people left that weren t zombies too. The zombies find them at the mall, but they manage to leave the city and escape to an island, where other zombies await them. Will they manage to escape? What will their fate be? If you are interested, I recommend you to watch the movie. Written by Bano Shaher, 7th Class Haiku Poems from 5-6th Class Each thing needs training. Even if the master trains. Why not a student? - Gehad Abou El Zalaf Acid rain over there. A tree will die here and there. Goodbye my good friend. - Imad Benaouisse They are a team. One for all and all for one. They are all friends. - Sergey Dorokhov The life is over. Only one can live off snow. But all snow will melt. - Daniel Meldrum Larsen
Page 8 AIS Newsletter Fun Page! U.S. Civil War Quiz 1. Name 9 states which left the Union. 2. When was Abraham Lincoln elected President and when was he assasinated? 3. Name 2 reasons why the Civil War started. 4. What happend to Atlanta in the Civil War? 5. What was the difference between the North and South? 6. Who was stronger, the North or South? 7. Did the North want the Union to break up? 8. What did Britain have to do with the American Civil War? 9. What did the South use the slaves for? 10. Why did the North not want or need slaves? Please submit answers to Kevin or Luigino in 8th class for a special prize if you are the 1st to answer all correct in the quiz above! Word Search D E F Ø K E T J Ø L F E C F E O B S B E N S K I N N E R R O M O A E A P G R A S D I E M F M J A J U N H P Æ R T L B Å U E G V B R T E A E T L Q I X S R E S D R I Ø N V I Z F G F K C O O O R L Æ B P H S L E Ø O M U K P G R L S H O R T S Y J F G K D T X D P O L W K T T V E Z E N I L H P L A Æ P A T T Z I R T O O K Q D V B N D X R M E H B X V J Q Q L O S I F Ø U G D Y N Q O W X S L Å U K J W O U O Ø Å C D R R D D M Y E F M J I M Å L Æ S Z Y M A Å N S U D O K U 9 5 2 7 3 8 4 1 4 5 8 7 1 2 3 9 8 7 6 8 7 1 4 3 5 2 5 6 1 9 4? 9 9 8 6 2 7 4 5 3 1 Be the first to sumbit the correct answers to Lalli & Ahmed in 6-7th class for a little prize. Stadium Træner Trøje Shorts Banen Sokker Hold Mål Gras Dommer Bold Kort Benskinner Fodboldspillere Sko Fløjte
2006 February Issue nr.2 Page 9 Success Stories! I have learned a lot about Natur/Teknik and History. In N/T I have learned about reptiles and in History I have learned about Denmark s history. EDB is also very fun. A.A.S. - 4A Jeg er rigtig glad for at jeg er blevet færdig med How To Use a Dictionary course. Jeg vil gerne sige tak til Diana, Nadia, Anna- Louise og Maria. A.E.B. - 5-6. klasse I am happy for my math and english because I made completions, and I am very far ahead. I love my work in school. I ve just started Learning How To Learn. I think it is the best course in the world. S.C.G. - 4A I have finished 7th class math, and I love being finally done, so that I can continue to the next step. I want to thank Charline a lot for being my math teacher throughout the book. In Qual, I would like to thank Maria for helping me down. Thank you again Charline! =) Jeg er meget glad for jeg er færdig med 5. klasses matematik. Det tog lidt lang tid men jeg er meget, meget glad. Jeg takker dem fra Qual, og min klasselærer fordi de hjalp mig. Jeg håber også jeg snart bliver færdig med 6. klasses matematik. S.A. - 6-7. klasse Mr. Tumnus from Narnia - Aja 4A V. R. - 6-7. klasse All things are complex when they are poorly understood. -L.Ron.Hubbard Ice Castle from Narnia - Lina 4A
2006 February Issue nr.2 Page 10 Calendar of Important Dates: Winter Holiday (Vinterferie) week 7-11.2.06-19.2.2006 - SCHOOL CLOSED Easter Holiday (Påskeferie) 8.4.2006 17.4.2006 Monday 10th April 08:45 to 13:30 only - plus Børnepasning to 17:00 Tuesday 11th April 08:45 to 13:30 only - plus Børnepasning to 17:00 Wednesday 12th April 08:45 to 13:30 only - plus Børnepasning to 17:00 Thursday 13th April SCHOOL CLOSED Friday 14th April SCHOOL CLOSED Monday 17th April SCHOOL CLOSED St. Bededag - 12.5.2006 SCHOOL CLOSED Kristi Himmelfartsdag - 25.5.2006 SCHOOL CLOSED Friday 26.5.2006 SCHOOL CLOSED Whitsun Holiday (Pinseferie) 3.6.2006-5.6.2006 Monday 5th June SCHOOL CLOSED Summer Holiday Dates (Sommerferie) - 24.6.2006-13.8.2006 The school will be open the first 4 weeks of the summer holiday on a shorter schedule. You will be notified about this before hand. Please contact the school office with any questions. Parent Donations Once again we appreciate your donations to the Christmas party through: Homemade cakes for the café, gifts for the lottery and the raffle. Thank you very much, and everything went to a good cause! The process of learning is not just piling data on top of more data. It is one of obtaining new understandings and better ways to do things. -L.Ron.Hubbard A Note From The Newsletter Editor If you have any pictures, stories, articles, movie/music reviews, poems, crosswords, etc., that you want to have on the next newsletter, please feel free to email me on ewokard@yahoo.com, and I will see what I can do to add them. Angelo del Valle En lille notits fra vores allesammens studievejledere, Charline Astrupgaard og Anna- Louise Sørensen: Som lovet følger her et par beskrivelser fra 8. klasses praktikuge! Eleverne klarede sig flot, og vi fik kun positiv feed back fra kontaktpersonerne. Praktikugen skulle gerne have gjort eleverne mere sikre på deres valg af ungdomsuddannelse det er vigtigt, at I taler om netop dette valg derhjemme. Informationsmøderne og besøgsdagene på de forskellige 10. klasser og ungdomsuddannelser er i fuld gang se opslagstavlen i gangen og følg ellers med på optagelse.dk, ug.dk og i aviserne! Husk udstillingen Uddannelse uden Grænser i Forum 2. 4. februar! Vi ansøger til 10. klasser inden 28. februar og til ungdomsuddanelser inden 15. marts. Copyright 2006 by Amager s International School. All Rights Reserved. Amager s International School is an Applied Scholastics (T.M.) school. Applied Scholastics is a trademark owned by association of Better Living and Education and are used with it s permission. Grateful acknowledgement is made to L. Ron. Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce a selection from the copyrighted works of L. Ron. Hubbard.