Oxford Reading Tree

We have been given access to this website, which has a lot of English exercises, stories and games. The children have the username and password written in their diaries, if you can't find it for any reason, kindly send me an email and I will email it back to you.

site address is : www.oxfordreadingtree.com

The Big Bell outing.

We had so much fun on this day! I encourage everybody who gets a chance to go to the Basilica bell tower, to do so, it's a marvellous experience. Our church has beautiful architecture, and one can appreciate the hard work of our forefathers at a time when machinery and technology was not as developed as today, if not non-existant.

Many thanks to Nathan's mum for arranging the outing. Thanks also to the mothers of Xylon, Aldair, Nevise, Naiomi and Brady...as well as Kryssa's nanna for helping us out.

Here is a video we made for the day (the IT project, which will be shown to all the schools of Malta)

Today's Notes.

Homework : Abacus page 12, 13, 14.
We are doing doubles. Please study the doubles on the Maths Study copybook.

Handout : Intervista mal-Mama'.

Next week we are going to the Parish Church for an outing. I need some help, because we are going up the belfry (kampnar). I need about 5 parents to help me walk the children up the stairs and help me take care of them when we are near the bell. IF I don't have enough parents helping out, I'll leave this part of the outing out.

Il-Ġimgħa d-dieħla, nhar it-Tlieta 12 ta' Mejju, ser ikollna ħarġa lejn il-Knisja l-Kbira. Għandi bżonn ftit ġenituri voluntiera biex jiġu magħna, peress li għandna l-permess mill-prepostu biex nitilgħu ħdejn il-Qanpiena storika tagħna. Minħabba li hemm mitt tarġa, għandi bżonn l-għajnuna ta' xi ħames adulti. Jekk ma jkollix biżżejjed nies kbar, din il-parti tal-ħarġa ma ssirx. Grazzi.

Please email me on claudine.slater@educ.gov.mt with your questions or comments. Thanks.
You can also leave a comment here on this blog, I will do my best to answer you.

Toilet Training

A lot of children are asking me to go to the toilet soon after breaktime, or during lessons.

I take them to the toilet twice a day, I feel that should be enough. Sometimes I allow them to go as soon as explaination is over.

Please have a chat with your children, as time in the classroom is now very restricted.

Also, keep hygiene in mind. Make sure your children have tissues and wipes.

Ir-Regoli tal-Malti.

Qed ninnota ħafna ġenituri jgħinu lil uliedhom fix-xogħol tad-dar. Dan hu ġest sabiħ ħafna, u nixtieq li l-ġenituri kollha jagħtu kas dak li jagħmlu t-tfal fil-pitazzi tagħhom.
Nara wkoll pero', ħafna użu tal-Malti ħażin, per eżempju ħafna taħwid fir-regoli taż-żewġ vokali ħdejn xulxin.
Il-Vokali taqa' biss meta tkun vokali tal-leħen, u l-W flok il-U hi xi ħaġa ta' zmien ieħor. Fil-fatt min jaġġorna ruħu billi jixtri kotba bil-Malti (dawk tajbin, tipo Trevor Zahra, Claire Azzopardi, Pierre Mejlak) jinduna li m'għadhomx jintużaw.

Eż : tazza ilma
żjara importanti
mara irrabjata
Pawlu u Anna



Dawn kollha huma tajbin, u l-ebda vokali ma taqa' jew tinbidel.


Qabel konna niktbu

ta' l-isfar

illum niktbu

tal-isfar.

Meta niftakar 'żbalji' oħra. ngħarrafkom.

Sadanittant, tajjeb taqraw dan u dan, żewġ dokumenti uffiċjali.
Grazzi.

Further Homework

Page 45 and 46 of the P.C.M

Page 97 from the Way Ahead Workbook.

Back to Blogging.

Bżieżaq.

Aqra denfil p. 81.

X'jisimha l-istorja?
Min kitibha?
Liema kuluri jissemmew?
X'jiġrilhom l-ewwel tip ta' bżieżaq?
X'jiġrilhom it-tieni tip?
U t-tielet?
Xi tfisser 'Qalbenin'?

Fuq pitazz tat-Taħriġ il-Fehem.

Today's homework

Sorry I haven't blogged for a few days, I was very busy with some stuff going on at school and at home it is virtually impossible, as I have 'some' decoration going on...

So... today's homework is on Maths 2.

Exercise 1 is pretty straight forward, children have to circle the smallest number and underline the largest number.

Exercise 2, they have to arrange the group of numbers from smallest- largest.

Exercise 3, they have to insert two 'in between' numbers

for example


18 33 40 45

Children have to insert a number larger than 18 and smaller than 45.

Today's Work.

Today we did the present continuous.

I am walking

You are talking

He
She is sleeping
It

We
You are writing.


Also note that when there is a vowel before the last consonant, the last consonant gets doubled before adding -ing.

ex :
run - running
swim - swimming

And when the verb ends with an e, this gets dropped before the ing is added on.

wake
They are waking.

Today's work.

Today we done the 'quarter to'. For more practice I urge you to visit this site, it's very good.

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/clock/clockres.html

For homework I'm giving them worksheets generated from this site.

http://www.time-for-time.com/worksheets.htm

Next Monday I'll be giving them a test on the quarter past and quarter to clocks.

English :

Way Ahead Pupil's Book pg 79. Tico's Game. All 15 questions should be answered in full on the English Writing/comprehension tomorrow.

Please DO have a look at your children's work.

Today I also gave them a revision exercise in class, without much help.

Last Term.

This is our last term together. I will emphasise more on corrections, keeping time during school work, giving marks, more compositions and comprehensions and writing in cursive.

Next year you will find Year four to be tougher, so I will try to gear up children as much as possible. Behaviour permitting of course.

Today's Homework.

Malti taħrig il-Fehem. Aqra Denfil.
Studjaw il-Kollettivi fuq Malti Studju. Ħendawt tal-Kollettivi.
Maths 3.

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Next week we shall be doing clocks. Quarter past and quarter to. Would be good if you visited this site and others similar to it.

Teaching the Time.

Tomorrow - Sports Day.

Għada għandna l-iSports Day il-Kottonera. Ibagħtu lit-tfal bil-flokk abjad tal-PE u qalziet l-aħdar. X’aktarx ser tkun sħana. Jekk ħa tibagħtuhom bil-flokk l-aħdar ukoll, araw li jkun immarkat bl-isem u l-kunjom għax jintilfu. Il-HW hu kollu għal nhar it-Tnejn. Ibagħtuhom b’basket żgħir biss. Tinsewx ittuhom il-lunch u 2 fliexken ilma. Żarbun tal-PE. Żraben tat-tappini mhumiex aċċettati. Min għadu ma ħallasx jista’ jibgħat € 2, u nota li jħalli lit-tifel/tifla tiġi l-iSports Day.

A Happy Easter to all of You!

Here is a photo of the eggs we did...

Homework for the weekend.

Maths Handout : Colour the Fractions.
Malti Hendawt : Kliem imqallbin irrangawhom f'sentenzi.
Way Ahead Work Book p. 89

**Don't forget

Study your tables. You will be tested on your divisions (same as last test) Here is a good page to print to study your tables (2,4,6,8 etc)

You have them on the maths study copybook already, and some of you have the tables songs too. Really...there is no excuse not to know them. You need to know the x2 x3 x4 x5 x10 x11. Click on picture for larger image. Study animal names.

Valletta Outing Movie, Made by the Pupils.

Here is the video I told you about yesterday. Enjoy.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we shall have our lady of sorrows mass at St.Helen's Basilica at 11.00 a.m.

NEW movie coming out soon.

Today we had so much fun doing a photostory about our Valletta outing. I think it (the video making) was a fun way to learn about our traditions. We didn't manage to finish, because unfortunately, there's always somebody who manages to waste us half hour out of every two....there's a few slides left. Bear with us, you'll see it tomorrow.

Possessive Nouns.

Today we did a lesson on

Mine- yours - his -hers- ours- theirs.

Look up the notes on the English Study Skills copybook.

For homework please do page 42 of the green book, exercise 3.

This is your book. This book is yours.

They also have Way Ahead Workbook page 88.

When you have three words starting with the same letter, and you have to put them in ABC order (alphabetical order) you have to look at the second letter.

e.g : sWing sLide sNake

Abc order they would come :

Slide
Snake
Swing.

Fractions

This lesson was more of a revision, as all the work was done last term. Homework is on PCM Pages 41 and 41b.

Page 41 : Write the fraction. If one part out of four is shaded, you write 1/4

Page 41b : The same as 41 but with more fractions. Ex 1 out of 7....the same concept should be used.