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

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.

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...

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!!!

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 :)

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...

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!

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!

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.. :)

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!

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!

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.

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:

Hello to our friends from Slovenia

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.

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.

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:

Traffic Awareness Day....

One of our first activities at school this year was what we called 'Traffic Awareness Day'. Police officers came to our school to talk to us about the importance taking good care while in the street. Following those talks we went down the yard and went in some of the police vehicles on show. A small track was built and everybody could pretend he/she is walking in the street. All street laws, including zebra crossings, had to be observed. In the end, we attended to police dogs' show.

Luxol grounds...

May 25th:

Whole session of practicising diffferent kinds of skills including relays, throwing, catching, passing, dribbling, shooting and lots more took place at the Luxol grounds this morning. Trained instructors from the 'Bobby Charlton Soccer School' led the whole sessions. The only problem was that it was very hot, too hot infact! Despite the heat, it was a very good work-out indeed...

More info to follow soon...

Healthy Breakfast Day

April 26th: All children had breakfast in class. Following a brief discussion on the importance of starting the day on a positive note, breakfast was served inside the class room.


It included cereals, a wide variety of yogourts, fruit, raisins, biscuits, sultanas, milk and also fruit.

For more information on how to eat healthy you can also view the following websites:

http://kidshealth.org/kid/index.jsp

http://www.dole5aday.com/

SPORTS Day...

April 2nd was our Sports Day. We linked with other year 4 students from around 20 other schools and took part in what turned out to be a very active day. We practiced various skills from different kinds of sport disciplines such as hockey, football, basketball, handball, rugby.

We also practiced various other skills including passing, dribbling, running, balancing, hurdling, jumping and also teamwork! All the games were enjoyable and a big thank you goes to all the P.E. teachers who organized the event. We look forward to build on the skills learned today..!

Fieldwork @ Buskett...

March 21st: On a bright and sunny but a rather chilly first day of Spring, we left our school on our way to Buskett Gardens. We arrived at around 9:45 a.m. After a short walk we stopped for a short break. Soon after we set off on our tasks; collecting small materials and listing various things around us such as sounds, living things, non-living things, soft and hard materials, leaves, insects etc etc

On our arrival back to school we discussed our day and at home we had to complete some leaf-rubbing which we had brought with us from Buskett.

A perfect day to start the new season indeed...!

Carnival. . . .

After the end of our Half-Yearly exams, it was time to relax and enjoy a bit ourselves today at school as we celebrated the start of Carnival festivities! After gathering inside our class for a brief discussion on the tradition of the Maltese Carnival, we had our quick lunches, and soon we were out in the yard. Each and every class had its' own parade infront of the rest of the school while our head of school entertained us with some lovely tricks and games! In the end we spent the last 15 minutes dancing to the Carnival tune and to other music!

Our class boasted some wonderful costumes amongst which one could find indians, cowboys, witches, space girls, little signiorinas, wrestlers, power rangers, clowns, a harry potter and also soldiers (including roman soldiers).... It was soooooo much fun! :)

It's Winter Time. . . .

Winter Time in our school! This photo has been taken from our corridor recently by our mates of year 6. It shows part of our school yard on a very wet day.

Winter Time in our school means also tests and examinations and right now everyone is busy studying and preparing for our mid-yearly examinations!!!

Handball Festival

On Wednesday 17th January, our class took part in a National HANDBALL Festival @ the indoor gym of the University Sports complex. Different skills were practiced throughout the first sessions. This was followed by an interesting talk about the Olympics where all our curiosities were satisfied! Following this talk, we particpated in two friendly Handball matches; against Attard Primary we ran out 3-1 winners. In our second match we overcame Msida Primary 2-0!!

Looking forward to our next P.E. session where we hope we will be strengthening our newly acquired skills in this interesting game!