Mdm Asrina

Things I have learnt when Mdm Asrina taught,

1. Brunei national lagugue is malay.
2. Singapore $1=Brunei $1
3. No MRT trains in Brunei.
4. Brunei is larger than Singapore

Unit 8: Question Words and Question Tags

Hi Mdm Asrina,

Welcome to Anderson Primary School. I will be asking a few questions.

• Do you like our school?
• How is netball played?
• Is netball fun to play?
• Do you like our Learning Journeys?
• Which part of Brunei are you living in

Please reply on my blog.

Unit 8: Indian Folktales (Part 2)

In the grasslands, there lived a goat who kept telling lies. One day the goat told ale again he shouted" The hunters are here!" Everyone ignored him and continued to eat the grass. A few days later the hunters really came. The goat knew that it was their last chance to escape, so he told everyone that the hunters are here. Nobody believed him and continued to eat the grass. Soon the hunters killed the family and friends. The goat was sad and went to join another herd. The moral of the story is to be honest. I hope after you read the story you will be honest.

Unit 7 People of Japan

all images are taken from yahoo search

Personal Response 5: Earthquakes

1. What are the causes of earthquake?
2. What can people do when there is an earthquake?
3. Do you think scientists can detect an earthquake? If so, how do they do it?
4. Where have earthquakes occurred?
5. Why do these countries have earthquakes?
6. Do you think there will be an earthquake in Singapore? Why?

~~Reflection~~

Earthquakes are one of the world`s dangerous disasters. Many lives were killed in the Sichuan Earthquake. The cause of earthquakes was stated correctly in 1760 by British engineer John Michell, one of the first fathers of seismology, in a memoir where he wrote that earthquakes and the waves of energy that they make are caused by “shifting masses of rock miles below the surface”. Here are some tips if you encounter an earthquake.

1. If you are INDOORS--STAY THERE! (Get under a desk or table and hang on to it, or move into a hallway or get against an inside wall. STAY CLEAR of windows, fireplaces, and heavy furniture or appliances. GET OUT of the kitchen, which is a dangerous place (things can fall on you). DON'T run downstairs or rush outside while the building is shaking or while there is danger of falling and hurting yourself or being hit by falling glass or debris.
2. If you are OUTSIDE-- get into the OPEN, away from buildings, power lines, chimneys, and anything else that might fall on you.
3. If you are DRIVING--stop, but carefully. Move your car as far out of traffic as possible. DO NOT stop on or under a bridge or overpass or under trees, light posts, power lines, or signs. STAY INSIDE your car until the shaking stops. When you RESUME driving watch for breaks in the pavement, fallen rocks, and bumps in the road at bridge approaches.
4. If you are in a MOUNTAINOUS AREA--watch out for falling rock, landslides, trees, and other debris that could be loosened by quakes.

The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in central China. It struck a region where most people lived in caves carved from soft rock. These dwellings collapsed during the earthquake, killing an estimated 830,000 people. In 1976 another deadly earthquake struck in Tangshan, China, where more than 250,000 people were killed. A nervous laugh often accompanies the statement, “Our house is on the fault line”. We all know that it is not a great place to be during an earthquake, but what actually is a fault line?
Cracks or fractures in the earth’s crust are known as faults and, because there may be more than one rock fracture, an area is called a fault line. This might be an inactive fault where scientists can see where past movement has been, or one which continues to be active even after millions of years. All but the very deepest earthquakes occur on faults. Faults might be only metres or up to a thousand kilometres.
When tectonic plates move, the rocks at the junction between the two plates are not able to simply glide past each other, due to friction and the rigidity of the rock. Instead, stress builds up in the rock until eventually it breaks, and the two rocky blocks move relative to each other along a fault line. Most Earthquakes are usually from when the place where fault lines are. Luckily Singapore is not near fault lines. Singapore might not have Earthquakes or one day, earthquakes may be in Singapore......

Personal Response 4: Child Safety Belt in School Buses

Many people take school buses to and from school. All lot of pupils have been seen walking around the bus while the bus is moving as it is very dangerous because if the bus is in for an emergency brake, pupils standing up will be thrown forward, smash the windscreen and may die. I agree with Ms Karen Koh that safety belts should be installed because your live is more important than anything else. I do not agree with Mr Leow Beng Kiong because our lives are important. I think that attendants, drivers and even children should remind each other to have your safety belts buckled at all times when you get on a vehicle.

Reflection 5: Mother`s Day

Every 11/5/08 we celebrate Mother`s Day. I will send my mother a card. My mother has taught me maths every day. My mother helps me send me to school, tution and many places. The next mothers day I will buy her a handbag becase she loves handbags.