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Woodwork Not complete!

   Hi it's me again!

I am here to tell you about a lesson we have in school.

The lesson is Woodwork.

If you go downstairs to the icelandic Art room you will see another room on the right side of it.

That's the woodwork room.Every tuesday we have woodwork there.We have had woodwork for five weeks.

    our teachers name is Edda. In these five weeks we have made necklaces with old icelandic letters

on,then we started to make chalkboards and we are soon done.Woodwork is fun I wish we would have

it to the end of the year.

Good bye!

 

 

 

 

 

 

WorldMathsDay 2010

Today (02/03/10) is World Maths Day, where 2,000,000 students in 37,000 schools from 200 countries are trying to beat the last year's 452,681,681 questions answered within 48 hours. As I am writing this we have 21 hours left and many thousand questions are being answered every second. There are prizes for the best students, but all students get a digital certificate. When it started in 2007 they only got around 40,000,000 questions answered, but they still beat the world record. I hope we will beat the record this year too! 

Akkal  

Raising Money For Haiti

Raising money for Haiti

 

Tomorrow is Thursday which is Potluck dinner.

Every child from the International school and family are allowed to bring food from their originated countries. After eating and mingling, there will be a table with toys that you can purchase to raise money for Haiti. There won’t be much there so hurry before it’s too late!

 

WarriorWalnut

Refugee Boy

In English we have started a new book called "Refugee Boy". In this book the main character is called Alem. Right now am on chapter 20. The story is about Alem and his family. Alem is from Africa so are his parents However, his father is from Ethiopia and his mother is from Eritrea and both countries are at war with each other. So Alem is from both Ethiopia and Eritrea. Alem's father and went to England so his father can seek asylum for his son. But Alem does not know that because his father makes him think that they are having a vacation. But he does not know that his father is going to.....ha, ha, ha I am not going to tell what happens if you want to know read the book yourself and find out what happens to Alem and how he "completes his vacation".

6th grade art

The first subject in art after the Christmas holidays was pop art (which the 7th and 8th graders had too). In pop art we had to copy a picture and draw it on another paper. Then we had to decorate it in a specific way, and on the last of 4 pictures we could decide for ourselves. We also learned a little about the history of pop art and some famous pop artists.

What we're doing now(the second subject) is something you thought only kindergarteners did. Scraping a black paper with a pattern under it. But this can also be done in a other way,the way that we're doing. On our scratchy paper we had to scrape a copy of a picture of a animal (I chose a wolf) , and do shadings to it too. The shading is similar to what you'd usally see on old northern European pictures that are in books (like the Icelandic sagas) , but we had to do a lot of fur. We just finished it and it's easier than you think. It also looked better than I thought. The end results of drawings were pretty nice.

By Akkal

NEW YEAR
At New Year we didn‘t have School.
There was a big bonfire in Gardabaer near the international school of iceland.The bonfire was very hot.There was alot of people at the fire. Some people threw sticks and sparklers in the fire. The bonfire was near the sea.
The sea was frozen it was wary slippery and cold
There was a lot of snow , about 5 to 8cm thick. There were fireworks but if you would have seen the ones last year than you woudn‘t think it was that much.

This article is writin by:
richy

Slowly, Slowly, we are getting the blog going again. If you are wondering why there isn't much input from our oldest boy...let me tell you. He has been doing all the background work with Pam. Without him most of the blogs you are reading would not be here! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...now enjoy all the news from ISI

Orthodox Christmas in Russia!

Hi my name is Anastasija, I want to tell you a little story about Christmas in Russia that called Orthodox Christmas.

Orthodox Christmas is on January 7th. After 1917 Christmas went through out Russia, through every house and every family. In Christmas people made a lots of games and food so the holiday they had will be fun.(some food they ate)

Mushrooms
Russian tea with honey
Vegetables
Pancakes
Fruit and more…
They drink: red wine or old Russian vodka (kids): water or juice.
Then they played lots of games. After they played all the games they all went to the church (even babies and kids).Women were wearing nice clothes for that time like warm and long skirts , shawls on their heads and shoulders so it will be warmer , at the time they lived they did not had coats like have now so they wear blankets (mostly).Man did wear warm jackets warm pants and boots women also wear warm boots.

In church they sing prayers and said sorry to GOD if you did any mistakes last year or in other day that is on 19th of January . People go to the ocean go under water three times and say sorry to GOD and going home but all of this stuff is in midnight… kind of creepy.

THANK YOU FOR READING MY STORY. I THINK NOW YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS!!!

The Kin - Suth's Story

I had to read this book over the christmas holidays and ... it was interesting even though I didn‘t like it very much. If your interested read more

This book is about six children that have been cut off from thier kin because strangers attacked and these six children managed to flee. This story was set two hundred thousand years ago. Suth, Noli, Tinu, Ko, Mana and Otan left thier home and travelled through the desert with no food or water in hope of finding another good place. On the way they encounter a fox, but manage to kill it by thrashing its head with rocks, they would usually chew on a bit of meat when they got hungry and they also found some rocks and boulders with moisture on the sides that they licked off to hydrate themselves. AND THEN ... well you will have to read the book for yourself to find out!

WarriorWalnut

Born to Run

Hello my name is Lisa
I´m speaking from G.I. (Garđabær, Iceland)

Have you ever heard of a book called ‘Born to run’?!
Well I have and it is awesome!!
If you want to know more about the book scroll down!

Born to run is about a dog that cannot find a permanent home.
He has three different owners and three different names.

1. His first life involves a boy named Patrick and the dogs name is Best Mate.
Patrick saved Best Mate from drowning in a canal.

Later on, Best Mate gets stolen in the park by the stepfather of his next owner.

2. His next owner is a girl named Becky and the dogs name is Bright Eyes her stepfather owns many greyhounds for racing. Bright Eyes finds a friend and never leaves his sight. One morning, a horrible accident happens to his friend and Becky’s mean stepfather takes him away and kills him. Becky runs away and ends up in the hospital.

3. His third owner finds him outside of the hospital and takes him home. The man’s name was Joe and the dogs name was Paddywack from the saying:

This Old Man, he played one,
He Played knick knack on my drum,
With a Knick Knack Paddywack,
Give a Dog a Bone,
This Old Man Came Rolling Home!

Later on, Paddywack found Patrick again but sadly he did not remember him any more.
Paddywack and Joe lived happily ever after.

I love this book so much because it makes me so emotional to read it and the dog is always in an adventure with all his friends. Please read this book I’m sure you will love it!!

Other books written by Michael Morpurgo:
Toro! Toro! , Butterfly Lion, War Horse, Adolphus Tips, Private Peaceful and much more!!

     (Michael Morpurgo)


By: L.M.V