These photos show the Yr 3.1 students during one of our reading sessions. The students chose different ebooks according to their likings. Then, they read them and they enjoyed it so much!
Submitted by Ms Sharon Calleja, Yr 3.1 Teacher
The Kinder 1.2 students of Ms Josianne have been learning about the various means of transport used to travel in air, on land and at sea. This offered the students the opportunity to learn how to sort objects. Students also learnt about the various directions and ways one can travel e.g in a straight line, in a circle or in zig zag formation. Students also learned about the value and recognition of number 4 and later had to stick 4 bricks on a truck.
The Yr 2.2 students of Ms Stephanie had an interesting lesson about adjectives, also referred to as describing words. The teacher introduced the lesson by showing the students a book about Simpi, the elephant. Students were asked to describe the elephant and to find the adjectives on a presentation.
The lesson continued with a set of games and activities where students had to match the words to the correct adjective using Bee-Bot, worked interactive games on the computer, matched flash cards to pictures and also wrote sentences to describe objects. These hands-on sessions allowed students to learn by thinking and sharing.
The school has embarked on a programme with the aim of building a love for stories together with the National Literacy Agency. The programme, The Magic of Stories, or, Seħer l-Istejjer, is based on a number of 6 sessions where parents are invited to join their children, in class, while stories are being animated. Thus far the sessions being held are for K2.1, Yr 1.1 and Yr 1.2. However we shall further extend this project to reach the all the classrooms of early year students.
Special thanks to Ms Patricia Gatt for animating these stories and to Ms Marianne Schembri for offering this initiative to our school.
The Kinder 1 students of Ms Joanne spent a wonderful morning exploring the wonders of science at Esplora. This science centre povides a number of activities which sets the mind these young students to ask questions why things happen they way they do.
The Year 5.2 students of Ms Melanie prepared a special assembly. The students sang a song and shared a message of love with their peers. During these assemblies students are given the opportunity to build their self-esteem.
The Year 2.2 students of Ms Stephanie have been very busy lately learning through hands-on activities. In the photos students are participating in 3 different activities. One activity shows the students matching the different parts of the body. In another the students are learning doubles during a maths lesson. In the third activity students learnt that white light is made up of different colours – the colours of the rainbow.
HSBC Water Programme – Catch the Drop teamed up with Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) to further broaden the perspective on water issues by developing five digital games.
The games are Drip Drop, Filtro, Running Water, Summer is Coming, and Save the Drop.
They are available for free at: http://icaprojects.net/catch-the-drop/
While the games are pretty captivating in their simplicity and scoring, their story lines inspire the players to look at their usage of water in a new way.
