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/

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.

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.. :)