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!

Christmas Party 2009

Tuesday 22nd: Last day of Term One came to an end with one of the best christmas parties ever held at our class!! We had food and drinks, played games, danced, laughed and laughed.

This Christmas WE CAN.. make a little difference!

Underneath is a special commentary prepared by all the children in class. This was the highlight of our Christmas Concert held at the school hall and all the children took part. The message we want to send out is that 'This Christmas, we can .... make a little diference!' It does not require much. We hope you enjoy this clip and we would also like to wish all our school friends, foreign school friends, parents, relatives and all you watching this clip; a very happy christmas. Christmas is a special time of the year. Make it count. Make the most of it! Enjoy :)

Homework 29.01.2010

Maths: Capacity handout (write on it)

Malti: mamma/Gherq Handout (write on it) Ex A

Social Studies: Revise and study handout +
http://schoolnet.gov.mt/socialstudies/Year4/tahrig/U4.3.1.mgiba-sigurta-fit-triq-TAHRIG.pdf

Religion: Handout in scrapbook

P.S: Sibu l-Ktieb ta l-Attivitajiet fil-link fuq il-lemin tal-blog. Fittxu xi ezercizzji milli diga ghamilna. Printjaw il-pagna ezatta u gibuha maghkhom l-iskola.

P.S> Religion & Malti Tests next Monday

Some children's work....

Jiena Farfett by Glen Fero'

Jien farfett tal-kabocci. Il-gwienah tieghi huma bojod bit-tikek suwed. Id-dar tieghi qieghda f 'toqba qalb l-isbah fjuri. Jien madwari nara hafna insetti ohra jaqtghu il-haxix ghat- tfal taghhom. Jien nista niltaqa' ma hbieb tieghi bhal nemus, nahal, nanna koli u hafna aktar. Jien inqatta il-hin tieghi f'toqba fil-hamrija tibqa niezla u niezla taht l-art ghax hemm il-hbieb tieghi. Il-fjura favorita tieghi hija l-warda. Jien ma niehux gost meta taghmel ix-xita. Jien kuntent li jien farfett ghax nghix fin-natura.

Jiena Farfett by Shania Duca'

Jiena farfett sabih hafna. Il-gwienah tieghi huma ta' lewn vjola bir-roza. Id-dar tieghi hija f'sigra twila. Id-dar tieghi hija twila, sabieha u ghanda frott frisk u sustanzjuz. Madwari narafjuri ta' kull kulur , frott u xi tip ta insetti ohra. Nista' niltaqa ma xi zunzana, gurdien, qattus u nanna kola. Il-hin tieghi inqattghu billi intir u ingawdi l-arja. Il-fjura favorita tieghi hija l-warda. Il-haga li ma niehux gost biha hija meta taghmel ix-xita ghax ma nkunx nists ntir. Jiena kuntenta li jiena farfett ghax nista intir fil-gholi.

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.

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.

Readers and other Links we used during our scholastic year

Konti Ruggieru:
http://schoolnet.gov.mt/socialstudies/Year4/konti-ruggieru.ppt

Social Studies: Study Water Cycle handout
Print, draw and stick in Social Studies file: http://www.arthursclipart.org/nature/nature/water%20cycle.gif

Read: 'The King's Breakfast' ... :) a funny story about a King who only wanted one thing for his breakfast! http://www.mightybook.com/MightyBook_free/books/king_breakfast/king_breakfast.html

Read Pirate's Treasure:
http://www.magickeys.com/books/pirate/index.html

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

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!”

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/