Nov 26, 2009

SENDING SMILES...to Spain & Greece

Our class is pleased to announce that a new project has just been set up with two European classes; one from Greece and another one from Spain. The Spanish class comes from the 'Lo Romero' Primary School in the city of St. Joan of Alicante while the Greek class comes from the Primary School of Panagiouda in the island of Lesvos. The project will help us practice the use of our English language, make new friends as well as learn about new cultures. Following the first set of letters, the project was also registered as an E-Twinning project. In fact, all 3 classes have already sent introductory letters to each other as well as general information on the school, the town and the country they come from. Work is currently underway to send Christmas related material.

Underneath are some of the letters we received from the Greek school, which were on exhibtion earlier this week.
Underneath is a photo of of our greek friends when they recently visited a fire brigade station.

Nov 17, 2009

November 6th: Our class visited the Catacombs of St. Agatha. These Catacombs are very old and for us it was an excellent opportunity to get a first-hand look at what we had been learning in Chapter 2 of our Religion Book. After visiting these ancient Catacombs, we had our lunch and then walked to the beautiful Howard Gardens in Rabat.

Oct 29, 2009

Halloween 2009

We celebrated Halloween at school by working on some s c a r y crafts!!!

:) Now, why don't you read this story about Halloween? It's called 'The Magic Pumpkin'.
Enjoy.http://www.bookloons.com/HandHTML/WeeLoons/magicpumpkin.html

or else this one about CREEPY CRAWLERS
http://www.readmeatale.com/documents/story_174.htm

AND, if you are feeling creative, fill in the blanks in this link and create YOUR OWN SPOOKY NIGHT STORY :) Looking forward to see what you wrote....
http://holidays.hobbyloco.com/halloween/story2.html

When finished why don't you do some colouring here..
http://funschool.kaboose.com/preschool/games/game_creepy_coloring.html

Oct 13, 2009

Thursday's Poem

Every Thursday you will find a new poem for you to enjoy reading. here's the second one for you. It's about a recipe; BUT be careful before you try it out....

RECIPE

First you take a giant bowl
and put a waffle in it,
then you add a bunch of jam
and stir it for a minute.

After that you get a cup
and fill it up with custard,
then dump it in with mushroom soup
and just a little mustard.

Squeeze a lemon right on top,
add peanut butter—oodles,
but don’t forget the applesauce
and two big scoops of noodles.

Then nuke it in the microwave.
That’s it, you’ve got a winner.
Get the plates out now and yell,
“Come and get it! Dinner!”

Sep 25, 2009

READY TO START: 2009-10 :)

Dear Parents,

Welcome to the new scholastic Year - which promises to be a very busy but interesting year.

This blog will be a direct link. Children material, information, activities and lots of interesting links will be posted here. Parents can also keep themselves up-to-date with what is happening inside our class every week.

Please find underneath a list of things children have to bring with them to school in the first 3 days. More information will be given out during the coming days.

- 6 double lined copybooks (rigi dojoq; 48 pages)
- 6 single lined copybooks (rigi wesghin; 48 pages)
- 1 scrapbook (A4 size)
- 1 file (2 rings, A4 size)
- 3 plastic folders (with labels)
- 3 flat files (with labels)
- 1 drawing book
- 1 box of coloured pencils / crayons
- 1 ruler, 2 pencils, rubber & sharpener- 1 green biro
- 1 UHU stick (glue)
- 1 College Diary

Children are urged to look at the rules on the right hand side of this blog.

In the mean time, have a nice weekend.

Overcoming Back to school Anxiety

If you click underneath, you'll find an interesting article for all parents who want to help their children with their first day back at school.

http://www.kaboose.com/features/hallmark-backtoschool/

Sep 24, 2009

Change of Name

As from next Monday 28th September, our class blog Year4Orange will change its name as well as its layout.

Year4Yellow will be its new name and for the latest layout you will have to click during the course of next week.

Jul 6, 2009

Summer fun

Throughout the Summer, you can log into the following links. The first one is a link to one of your favourite games - Hangman. Try it out :)

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/games2/hangman/hman.php

May 20, 2009

A week of sports...



In line with our Comenius targets for Term 3 that focuses on sports and physical exercise, two special outings were organized between May 12th and May 21st. First we went to the national Pool in Tal-Qroqq where we learned special swimming skills. Than we went to a gym complex in Ta Qali where we practiced some interesting basketball skills.

Mar 28, 2009

Happy Easter Clip

A short clip was done in class during our last day before our Easter Holidays. It was the day after we had just had Prize Day at school and it was a day dedicated to discussions about Easter traditions and Easter crafts. We hope you enjoy watching this and we would like to wish all our friends, teachers and parents a very peaceful and happy EASTER...

Mar 13, 2009

Some photos of recent activities

Underneath you can find some photos of our recent activities. On our last day of the first Term we had a Christmas Party in class. Than, the day after we finished our half-yearly exams we came to school wearing Carnival Costumes. On both occassions, we had soooooooo much fun!!!









Jan 16, 2009

HOMEWORK 16.01.09 - BAR GRAPHS

As part of our Maths topic about Bar Graphs, during this weekend students at Year 4 Orange in Santa Venera are invited to vote on their favourite ice-cream flavour on the left of this blog. Every student can chose at least 2 preferences. The results of the vote will be plotted on a bar graph and will be published on Monday or Tuesday.

Have a nice weekend :)

Dec 8, 2008

Christms Songs - December 2008

Children, you can practice at home or during weekends the songs we will be singing during our Christmas Concert by listening to this clip!

We want to be the best choir when we go on stage next week...

Nov 21, 2008

Waste Separation in our class...

Thanks to our class representative in the students school council, Isaac Borg as from this week we will be separating waste in our class. Isaac himself produced two containers, one that takes plastic, another one that takes paper!

We encourage other classes to the same!

Nov 9, 2008

Visiting St. Paul's Grotto

Friday Nov 7th: Our class visited St. Paul's Grotto and St. Paul's Catacombs. That was followed by a short walk to the lovely Howard Gardens in Rabat where we stopped to have lunch. After that, we made our way to the silent city of Mdina. It was a fantastic day!

Oct 29, 2008

RICE SALAD is served @ our class...

As part of our comenius project, our class decided to serve a tasty rice salad on Monday 27th October. Thanks also to our P.E teacher, a special lesson on adopting a healthy balanced diet was first carried out. For this lesson, we also made use of the interactive whiteboard for the very first time. On Monday we used sweet corn, green, red, orange and yellow peppar, black olives, green olives, capers, tomatoes as well as tuna. Everything mixed into some exquisite rice. The whole salad was served in class during break. It took us about 90 minutes in the end, but it was sooo delicious... We suggest you try it out too.. :)


Oct 10, 2008

Animal Awareness Day

On Friday October 10th, Animal Awareness Day was celebrated inside our school. Everyone was invited to bring over his pets for the day. Parents were also invited to our school yard. All pets were put on show during the morning session. At 11 0'clock everyone gathered once again inside the yard and watched a fantastic exhibition by professional dog breeders who were specially invited over. After the dog show, every class put up a mini-sketch and had a message to send out!

Sep 18, 2008

Welcome to a new scholastic year

Welcome to a new scholastic year...! It's been a long, hot summer and now it's that time again of the year when we meet again at school.

Please find the list you will need to bring with you during the first week of school:

- 6 double lined copybooks (rigi dojoq; 48 pages)
- 6 single lined copybooks (rigi wesghin; 48 pages)
- 1 scrapbook (A4 size)
- 1 file (2 rings, A4 size)
- 3 plastic folders (with labels)
- 3 flat files (with labels)
- 1 drawing book
- 1 box of coloured pencils / crayons
- 1 ruler, 2 pencils, rubber & sharpener
- 1 green biro
- 1 UHU stick (glue)
- 1 small notebook

Have a nice weekend!

May 31, 2008

Fieldwork in Qawra

Thanks to our science teacher, an interesting walk around the promenade of Qawra and Bugibba saw us explore someting new. Situated at various points around the whole promenade lie all the planets in our solar system. Along our walk we stopped by at every point and put down notes.

After having break, we went round the beach in Bugibba and started looking for species that you can find near the sea. On our way back to our starting point, we put down names of other species that live on land.


May 7, 2008

Fieldwork in Buskett - May 2nd

It was a hot and sunny day last Friday May the 2nd when we decided to go on a fieldwork in Buskett. While in Buskett, we enjoyed looking for insects, different foms of leaves, different trees and also made a list of different sounds. After stopping for break, we sat down and started looking for hard, soft, dead, alieve and lots of other materials. Back at school, we enjoyed doing some leaf-rubbing.



Here are some pictures of our day in Buskett:



Feb 29, 2008

Foreign Partners...

All the kids at Year 4 Orange are pleased to announce that they have just set up special partnerships with a primary school in Slovenia. After exchanging some christmas cards, work is currently undergoing to exchange more crafts or cards on the Easter theme. More information will follow soon.


More than that, we are also pleased to announce that our school has just entered in a two-year Commenius project together with one school from Glasgow in Scotland and another school in Sweden! More information about this project will be available soon.

Jan 8, 2008

Welcome to our school..

This clip was shown for the first time on November 21st, 2007. As part of our morning Assembly, we decided it would be fun to produce something about the school where we spend so much time at. All photos were taken by us, the students, a week before the special assembly took place. For some us, it was the first we had handled a digital camera.

Special thanks goes to Ms Frances, ICT teacher who guided us throughout.

Dec 16, 2007

Reach for the Sun...




We would like to wish all our teachers, all our friends at school, all our friends in foreign schools, all our parents, all our relatives and all watching this clip a very happy Christmas. We hope that you will try to be nice to each other this christmas, smile as much as possible and be happy. In other words try reach for the sun...; that's what Christmas is all about!

More Christmas concert photos underneath: