Feeling good during Christmas..

Christmas time for us is not just about gifts, food and partying.

Christmas time for our students means feeling good by making others feel good too! That is what we did on Friday 17th December when we visited the old people's home at Apap Institute in our home town of St. Venera. During our visit, we sang christmas carols and also presented the residents with special christmas crafts done at school with the help of our PSD teachers. One of our students - Jacob - said: 'When I grow old, me too would like to come to stay at this home!' An unforgettable day for our students and for all the residents inside Apap Institute too.

Christmas Concert - December 2010

In front of the rest of the school, our class gave an excellent performance during our School Christmas concert. This annual concert gives an opportunity to all students to go on stage. Our class took part with a play called 'L-aħbarijiet tal-Milied' (Christmas news). A big well done goes to all the students who studied hard their part and went on stage well prepared. The applause received at the end of the play was well deserved!

Dea, our first Student of the Month

Dea Rodrigues Fernandes has been elected as our first Student of the Month for the October. Kylie, Michela, Liam, Cheyenne & Maya were all worthy runners-up.

Dea has worked hard throughout the whole past month. Her hand-writing is one of the neatest in class and her behaviour was one of the best too. As an award, she received a certificate and a small book. "Being student of the month of my class, I felt very happy," said Dea.

On behalf of all our class, congratulations Dea.

Our first outing of the year...

The first outing of our scholastic year saw us visit the Catacombs of St. Agatha in Rabat.

There we saw what an Agape Table really looks like, some frescos (wall paintings) and we even saw some of the oldest cemetries in our country. After that, we walked to the beautiful Howard Gardens in Rabat where we stopped for a short break.

Liam Hudson elected in Students' Council

Following the election for the school's council held in class last week, Liam Hudson has been elected to be our representative. Runner-up in this election was Neil Magri.

Congratulations to both Liam & Neil and we wish them best of luck in their new responsabilities.

Attention: absent students

For those students who have been absent from school today because of the weather, please note what we have mainly done today in class:

Religion: started lesson 4

Maths: continued on symmetry + page 29 from your books

English: worked on -ing verbs
Example: clap - clapping
swim - swimming
hop - hopping
run - running

Social Studies: Iddiskutejna 'L-ambjent ta' l-iskola tagħna'

Students Council Election - results on Monday!

On Friday 22nd, our class has voted to decide our representative in the students council for the coming year. Our class has got a long list of nominees and some can't wait to get the result. Candidates promised various interesting activities.

Results will be announced during next Monday's morning assembly.

2010 - 2011

Dear students,

welcome to a new scholastic year - a year that promises to be full of interesting activities which you will all enjoy. This blog is yours. Here you will be able to find extra work, slides, general information, games and news coming from our class. Parents can also keep track of our work by logging into our blog. Homework will also be made available online on a daily basis.

Underneath please find a list of things needed. It is important that you bring everything by the end of the first week.
- 16 single lined copybooks (rigi wesghin; 48 pages)
- 4 flat files (with labels) (red, green, yellow, blue)
- 1 pack of A4 full scaps
- 3 plastic folders (with labels)
- 1 file (2 rings, A4 size)
- 1 drawing book
- 1 box of coloured pencils/crayons
- 1 ruler, 2 pencils, rubber & sharpener
- 1 green biro
- 1 glue stick
- 1 small notebook (school diary)

Hope you enjoyed your first day at school. Year 4 starts here!

OUR CLASS WINS ANOTHER CERTIFICATE

Thanks to the hard work shown throughout the past months during our E-Twinning project entitled 'Sending Smiles', carried out with our friends from Greece and Spain, our class has been awarded a special certificate; the E-twinning Label. This is a special certificate awarded to those classes who participate in e-twinning projects and who show enthusiasm in the work they send to each other.

It is a certificate that is dedicated to all the students attending year4yellow during scholastic year 2009-10. Well done!

P.S. More photos and description of activities regarding this project can bee seen by clicking the above tab entitled 'Our Spanish and Greek friends'

SUMMER 2010

Here are 3 games for you to play during the summer days...

Free the Beach - clean the beach by dragging the litter into the proper bin

Tuna Trapper - Drop your nets (using the space bar) and try catch the tuna. Make sure you avoid the jellyfish :)

Dolphin - help the dolphin catch the rings and the fish

Good luck for your exams

The picture above says it all. You've all worked hard and you deserve to do well. Remember to do your best and... God will do the rest.

Our official Class Photo 2009-2010

Front Row (Left to right): Kurt Galea, Tiffany Baker, Julia McCormick, Therese Mizzi, Aidan Spiteri. 2nd Row: Sean Farrugia, Hayden Grima, Matthias Parnis, Glen Fero. 3rd row: Kylie Ciantar, Crayton Vassallo, Shania Duca, Gabriel Scalpello. Back Row: Janine Harmsworth, Jake Borg, Nicole Scifo

'Our Growing Together' Tree..

During the past week, in our class we have been working on a growing together tree. This activity was repeated during our Merit Day that took place last June 2nd, in our class.

Our college is the first college in Malta to introduce Merit Days because we believe that everybody has got something to offer. All children received a certificate marking a day that celebrates good practice amongst our students.

Kids Athletic Meeting

Strawberry picking

During Healthy week our class visited the Frott Artna fields in Mgarr. There we got lessons about growing crops. We learned about watermelons, beans, tomatoes, grapes and strawberries. We also had the chance to taste some of the fresh fruit. Before we left, we also visited a nearby farm. Some of us, were also lucky enough to hold some chickens or ducks in their hands. Unforgettable!

Healthy week begins

As from Monday 26th till Friday 30th April, all activities in school will be part of our 'Healthy Week' celebration.

During breaks, classes are competing against each other in 3 different sports as part of our promotion for physical exercise. On Day One we enjoyed one victory and one loss. Our football team lost 6-0 against class 4.1 but our basketbll team managed to win 8-6 against the same class. Jake Borg, Gabriel Scalpello and Aidan Spiteri (twice) scored our baskets. In Day Two, our football team won against class 4.3 3-2 thanks to goals from Aidan Spiteri (2) and Sean Farrugia.

Football results

vs 4.1 0 - 6

vs 4.3 3 - 2 (Aidan Spiteri 2; Sean Farrugia)

Basketball results

vs 4.1 8 - 6 (Aidan Spiteri 2, Jake Borg, Gabriel Scalpello)
vs 4.3 22 - 5

Handball results

vs 4.1 4 - 9

Adjectives song

We have been using adjectives all year long in our creative writing and in all our sentences. Here's a short clip for you to sing along and to remember to use adjectives in everything you write. Enjoy :)

Home-made Easter cards

Click here to get some ideas how to make some lovely Easter cards:

http://crafts.kaboose.com/easter-cards.html

A Day out

Carnival 2010

Carnival in class was a very special day. As you can see from the above photos, we had a batman, a policeman, an indian, a snow white, a ninja boy, two punks, a pirate, a witch, Hannah Montana & Lola, two cowboys and a chinese boy.

Mid-Year exams

All kids in our class are at the moment busy revising for Half-Yearly Exams that start on Monday 8th February.

Here is the time-table for the exams:

Mon 8th: Maltese & Listening Comprehensions

Tue 9th: Maths & Social Studies

Thur 11th: English & Religion

If you have any difficulties or questions with revision please comment here.

MINI-SURVEYS in our class reveal our tastes!

A few days we ago, we talked about tally charts in our Maths lesson. We learned that tally charts is all about reading information. Together we decided to do some mini-surveys in our class.

We were divided into four groups and each group was free to choose any topic!

Crayton, Janine, Aidan & Julia asked their friends about their favourite cartoon character. Results placed 'Tom & Jerry' first, with 'Bolt' coming second.

Therese, Sean, Kylie & Matthias looked for our favourite pets and concluded that the guinea pig is our most favourite. Next came the rabbit and the kitten!

According to Shania, Jake & Gabriel our favourite subject at school is Maths. Next came English Language.

Finally all children (together with some relatives and friends) participated in an online poll about our favourite season. Unsurprisingly, Summer got most votes! Results of this poll can be seen on the left hand side of this blog.

Well done kids! You can say you have done your first ever survey!