Reading Competition

Grade Five reading competition happened on April 18 at H.B.S. Eighteen students participated in this competition. All the students were good, but unfortunately only the best three students must be chosen.
There were four students whose interesting poemes attracted me. First of all, Sara Al Zien presented a poem in a funny way which made her friends clap for her strongly. Second , Dalal Higazi told a poem about a boy who didn’t go to school and she presented it in a loud voice. Then, Rayan Baraki recited a poem about nature. Finally, Maryam Al Sharif recited a poem about the room and it was good. All the students in this competition were cheerful.
The results were told by Miss. Cloudia Hasan, the English language coordinator . The third prize was for Sara Al Zien. The second one was for Maryam Al Sharif, and the first one was for Rayan Baraki and Dalal Higazi.
When the competition finished, the eighteen students took a picture with their teachers: Bareaa, Lina, Samar, Aya and Fatima. The aim of this competition is that we should be in the lead.
Thanks to all the teachers that helped the students.
Writtemn by: Nourhan Hammoud and Rim Taky

To Be Safe, Meet GRADE 9!!

A seminar about earthquakes happened on February,Friday 15 in the auditorium at Hajj Bahaa Complex. Grade 9 students informed H.B.S students about what they should do if an earthquake happened again .
They assigned some places in the playground to stay in if there was an earthquake. They also told teachers that they must stay at the corners of the class .They also told students to stay calm and not to panic if they were in class so that they could keep safe. In addition, grade 9 students taught other H.B.S students certain procedures to deal with this danger by putting their hands on their heads and bending down under the tables. In addition to telling students about solutions in school, they informed them what to do if they were in their houses or in the streets. This seminar attracted the students attention, although at the beginning they thought that the aim of this seminar was predicting that there would be another earthquake soon.Then they realized that they were wrong and the aim of it was to inform about protecting themselves.

Written by:
Mariam Shami

Youthcan Conference

The Youth can Conference was assigned by the iEARN Lebanon. It was an event for teachers who worked on iEARN projects to present their work. The Conference was on Monday, April7th, 2008. It was at ACS(American Community School) in Beirut.
So we seven Youth can graders participated. When we arrived at ACS, a lot of students crowded there since many schools participated including ACS, HBS, Valley School and Ahleiah School. The opening ceremony started with speeches by Eliane Metni, iEARN country coordinator, the principle of ACS and Mrs. Hariri. When they finished students started demonstrating their show until our turn came. Our show started with performing a small play about the effects of recycling. Then, everyone talked about household garbage but each had his own idea. One talked about the effects while others talked about solutions. Finally, when everybody finished Mrs. Eliane Metni gave everybody certificates of participation due to their efforts.Thus everybody went back delightfully holding his certificate.

Writen by: Alaa Ghanem

On Sunday, March 23, 2008 Dar El Yatim in Saida celebrated the birth of the prophet Mohamed sponsored by Mrs. Bahiya El Hariri and in the presence of the religious figure Salim Sousan and a huge audience.

The festival started with religious songs like Ya Taybah by Islamic Party. Then there was a poem about Islam and prophet Mohamed and a play about Mosaab Ben Omair. The play tells how he embraced Islam, and how he faced his mom and swore that he would not leave Islam even though she locked him in his room and gave him neither food nor money. The play was also about his participation in Chaswat Ohod and how he fought hard for Islam and how he died bravely to protect his Islam.
At the end of this festival there were special thanks to Mrs. Bahiya, Mr. Salim and the audience.

A woman from the audience told me about her opinion. She said that festivals are very important because they make us remember the manners of Mohammad and Islam and they fill our heart with peace.

Written by: Nadine Skafi and Kawthar B

The Strange Visitors!

At March 27, 2008 H.B.S. Drama Club performed a play to celebrate the International Day of Theater and 50 years' anniversary for space invasion.
This play was shown at R.H.H.S. The stage hall was full. People were talking noisily to each other. Suddenly, the lights went down, every one stopped talking, and the play began. This play started when aliens began to invade earth. Most televisions from China, Russia and USA covered this news live through to people who got scared of them. But the purpose of these aliens’ visit to earth was to make people aware of their wrong and wright actions. Also, after this play a song written by "Ahmad Kaabour" was displayed because of 5000 years for Saida's Life. At the end our friend Kawthar Bitar in the media group distributed many colorful flowers for second grades who participated in this play. There, many reporters in Future Television covered this event. This play "The Strange Visitor" was prepared and organized by Ms.Hoda Jradi ,Ms.Mona Yamen, Zahra Diarbi and the performers of grade -2-.
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Noureddine Barakeh

We, as rising journalists, will follow this code of ethics:
· Correct mistakes if we did ones.
· Tell the truth.
· If people we make interviews with ask you not to say their names we should not.
· We should not say our opinions and take sides.
· We should tell the story accurately.
· We should search for information and make sure it is true before we publish it.

The idea of our first story

Grade (5) organized a Reading Competition on March 15, 2008 in Hariri’s Complex in Saida. We want to write about this event and we will provide you with interesting pictures. We attended the reading competition and we took a lot of pictures.

Rim Taky
Nadine Skafi
Nourhan Hammoud

Our idea for our first news story!

The meeting for the preparation to YouthCaN conference that will be on April 7 was done on March 15, 2008. We attended this meeting and we are going to report to you what happened in an interesting way.
Signature: Alaa Ghanem & Noureddine Bararakeh

Rim

Hello , My name is Rim Taky . I am 12 years old . I am a student in H.B.S. My favort hobbies are reading stories, and playing sport. I am in grade 7 (D) . I am participating in an interesting project which is media. I thank my English Teacher Miss Dima because she chose me to share this project with myl friends.

Fatima

My name is Fatima Issa. I'm 13 years old, and I'm in grade 7. My favorite hobby is swimming since it relaxes me and keeps me fit. I wish you like our work and find it interesting.

Kawthar

My name is Kawthar Bitar. On April 18th I will become 13 years old. I am in Seventh Grade, section E at H.B.S.I like swimming. I participated in this project about media because I think it is very interesting to spread news and be a part of this new era of communication .

Nourhan

Hello,
my name is Nourhan Hammoud. I am 13 years old. I am in grade seven [D] at Hajj Bahaa El Dine Hariri School in Saida, Lebanon. My favorite hobbies are reading and writing stories. My best English teacher is Miss Dima Hassan, for she is a good teacher. My friends and I made a Media Blog with the title Up to Date, to inform you more about what's happening in our school and in the surrounding. I wish that you like our Media Blog.

Nadine Skafi

Hi, my name is Nadine Skafi. I am in grade 7 “D” in H.B.S. My hobbies are dancing, reading, and writing.I live in Saida and I have one sister and one brother. I participated in this project to search for news and to tell it for other students in different countries. Also, I like to communicate with other students from different schools.

Mariam Shami

Hello,

My name is Mariam Shami . I am in grade seven. My favorite hobby is gathering

Information about all events happening in the world and presenting them through several ways using media.

Although I am 13 years old, I would like to be a famous journalist. This makes me proud of myself. In addition, I thank my teacher Miss Dima for giving me the opportunity to share in this interesting project about

"madia". Also, I wish that you like our work because it is really perfect.

Alaa Ghanem

Hi, my name is Alaa Ghanem and I’m 12 years old. I learn in H.B.S which is an abbreviation for Hajj Bahaa School. My hobbies are football ,swimming and nunchaku. My ambition is to succeed in life and be a very big important business man. I participated in this project in purpose of informing people about what’s happening in and outside Lebanon . And believe me this not only fun but more…………

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Noureddine Barakeh

Hello,
I am "Noureddine Barakeh";I am a student at H.B.S. I am a seventh grader student, and I am 13 years old. I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters. I live in Saida- Lebanon. I am also a participator in Youth Can Team in Beirut (A.C.S).
My phone number is 07/734197
My email address is: noureddine_barakeh@hotmail.com
P.S check our blog: grade7mediagroup

Up To Date

Reaching others will be our message. Searching for news will be our mission and reporting it will be our goal. We're here and we'll be UP TO Date. Who are we?
We are the Media group in grade 7 in H.B.S and we see our blog as a new challenge.
Be patient and check our blog to read what's new.