Easter update

 More updates will come soon...Promise :)

Here is my flower

Hello my name is Ranya and I am in year 3.1.

Here is a story I did about Cinderella.

To day's Lesson : Very Important.

I have not posted in this blog for ages for one simple reason : I used to have a very big audience of pupils and parents. Now, this year, with this class, it seems that I have spent hours blogging and doing hard work FOR NOTHING.
None of you watch what we do, I get no comments, no suggestions, no thanks.
I only get page views on the HW page, because no HW will land a kid into trouble. I come here to teach, that's my job.

Here is today's lesson, if anybody is interested. It's not easy, I suggest watching this video.

Pirates Day 5 : All about Pirates

Today we went on Purplemash again and we wrote 'All about Pirates' (just in case you don't know)

Pirates Day 3 : Pirate Mashcams.

Edit : Got the pendrives with me and here are the Pirates of Birkirkara, Ship 3.1.

Pirates Day 2. Pirate Party

Today it was my birthday, so some children helped me cut some cake and make it look like a Pirate Ship

Happy Birrrrrrthdaaayyyy toooo

youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

youuuuuu

instagrammed myspace angled phone photo...with a few buttons I wasn't aware of

the Harrrrettes

here's a gorgeous card, the most beautiful I ever got. Ever. Made by Ranya.

and what do they do when it starts raining cats and dogs? Dance in the rain, of course!

Pirates: Day 1

All resources planned carefully...HARR!

Angela was our birthday girl today. Happy Birthday, awesome young lady, in many ways. 

Bucanners setting up their ship

It's almost ready...Bad-bummy expressions and all :)

This is going to be so much fun! For teacher...

Thinking of the marvellous things we're going to do

Deciding who's going to walk the plank...

Yes, definitely, Miss Claudine will have to do the honours of walking the plank. 

This week in 3.1

There'll be Pirates! hArr!

Next week we're doing a Pirate Week. 
So we are going to :

• go on purplemash.com and do a Pirate Mashcam
• design treasure maps (using clockwise and anti clockwise)
• write instructions for treasure maps
• use the class beebot to find the treasure
• write about pirate life
• divide booty using fractions
• (healthy week hurr durr durr) do a smoothie from the exotic fruits on treasure island
• design pirate jewellery
• use the dress up boxes in class to make up a pirate uniform
• hopefully nobody walks the plank

Discussing the 'Plan of Action'

Hard Workers on the Job

This month we're learning about different jobs. 

If you have a job you would like to speak about with our class, we'd be happy to have you. 

Leave a message in the comments and I'll contact you. 

Miss Claudine. 

Last work for 2012

We were doing 'in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening' and created this work to practice our tenses as well as connectives. 
Here's some of the work (the ones I could retrieve from the pendrives)

Hope 2013 will be bigger. And better. 
See you all tomorrow! 
X Miss C

Christmas Cards

So around two weeks ago, I pasted a note in the children's diaries for the parents, to send a blank card (or two), a stamp (or two) and the addresses to whom these cards were to be sent. Since this month we learnt how to write letters and emails, I wanted them to learn also how to write the address on the envelope and where to put the stamp...and physically see where the letter goes. In this day and age, with all the marvellous technology we have around us, hand written letters are rare, and a lot of children didn't know how to write addresses on an envelope. Sign of the times. So today, we had a fun lesson writing those envelopes, licking the yummy (or yucky for some) stamps. When the activity was over, we walked down to the post office and posted our Christmas cards, all neatly written, with hearts and kisses tucked in before the envelopes were licked and sealed. I do hope they get to their destination on time, we've been mighty busy of late. 

Here are some photos of my cuties at the Post Office.

Write-ups about our December Outing

As you all know, we've had a very interesting and exciting outing this week. We had three photographers, Mattea, Matthias and Ranya taking (really good) photos. The photos were resized by myself and put into 2Create a Superstory from 2Simple Software for the children to use in class. Here are the books they produced. (Best viewed in explorer)

Photography from Ranya and Matthias

Here are some great photos from which I chose the ones used in the .swf books made by my class. Well done Ranya and Matthias.

Ranya's Photos

Photos from Matthias

Class by Ranya

Someone went trigger-happy in class today- with a camera. :) Quite like the three-and-a-half-foot-tall-point-of-view :)

Emails to Santa Claus

Here is what we do when it's raining outside

We look cute while we use our kitchen scales

We investigate and exp

Don't get fooled by that smile. This young lady managed the whole group

Counting pasta bits and seeing how much they weigh

Logħob antik ta' dari.

Tafu xi logħob antik?


Hawn xi stampi għalikom. :)

Iż-Żunżana ddur iddur.

Il-Passju.

U ħafna oħrajn li jissemmew fuq Senduq Buffuri.

Min jinteressah, dan il-ktieb dwar il-logħob hu tajjeb ħafna.

Wieġbu l-Mistoqsijiet fuq il-Pitazz tat-taħriġ.

Today's work

These last few weeks we had some intensive work regarding adjectives. We have a word wall which is dominated by adjectives other than 'nice' and 'good'. As you can see from the work below, many children decided to use this resource in their work. Today I decided to do a lesson that allowed the children to choose their presentation according to their tastes. As you can see, quite a lot of them are excited about Christmas, aliens, fairy tales and superheroes. 

Well done. I wish some of you took more care to save their work properly...a lot of work gets lost through rushing from one task to another.