The Yr 3.1 students of Ms Sharon Calleja kicked off the carnival fever with a special assembly. The students danced to the well known local Carnival Hymn, Viva l-Karnival.
Carnival Special Assembly
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Category Archives: Year 3
Learning Opposites through the use of technology
The Year 3.2 students have been learning about opposites. To consolidate what they had been learning during the previous weeks and this week the students participated in an activity. The class was divided into four groups, each group was given a set of flashcards. In turns, a member from each group had to pick up a flashcard, read it and then point to the opposite flashcard underneath the Bee-Bot mat. Next, they had to give the proper commands to the Bee-Bot so that it could reach the correct opposite. Students had lots of fun!
Students had lots of fun!
Submitted by Ms Miranda Cauchi, Year 3.2 teacher
Fieldwork around the locality of Mgarr
On Friday 17th February, the two Year 3 classes carried out the Social Studies fieldwork entitled Madwar l-Iskola Tagħna. The pupils started the fieldwork at school as they had to answer questions about it. After, both classes observed the streets surrounding the school. Amongst other things students had to write down what they could see in these streets, observe the vehicles passing from a busy street and mark down the shops one can find at the local square.
Finally, students had to answer questions about the local playing field. There they also had a well deserved break.
Submitted by Ms Miranda Cauchi, Yr 3.2 teacher
Contractions
The year 3.1 students have been learning about contractions. After discussions and activities related to this topic, the students engaged in a matching activity as a group. Each group was given a set of flashcards with different long forms (such as do not) and short forms (such as don’t). They enjoyed matching the long forms with the correct short forms.
Submitted by Ms Sharon Calleja, Yr 3.1 Teacher
3D Shapes
The students are learning about 3D shapes at the moment. They sang along merrily to the 3D shapes song and learned about 3D shapes in objects they can see in their everyday life. The students also played an online game to show their knowledge of 3D shapes and their names. They later handled each 3D shape in order to learn about their properties (i.e. faces, vertices and edges). The students also participated in a sorting activity in order to distinguish between 2D and 3D shapes.
Submitted by Ms Sharon Calleja, Yr 3.1 Teacher
Special Assembly
The Year 3.2 students of Ms Miranda Cauchi prepared a special assembly. During this assembly the students spoke about the importance of maintaining a healthy body by eating healthy and doing plenty of exercise.
Diskors (Show and Tell)
As part of our Taħdit u Smigħ lessons, we held a Show a Tell in class. Each student was asked to talk about someone or something they liked or enjoyed doing or playing with. The Show and Tell sessions were distributed over different days so all the students in class could have the opportunity to talk about their desired item or topic to the rest of the class. Some students brought their favourite toy, some made charts, some drew pictures and others prepared a Power Point presentation. They were all very interesting and I enjoyed listening to each and every one!
Below are the links to the presentations prepared by our students 🙂
Little Life Pets (Pinky Queen)
Submitted by Ms Sharon Calleja, Yr 3.1 Teacher
Past Tense with Bee-Bot
The year 3.1 students have been learning about verbs in the past tense. They learned about regular verbs as well as irregular verbs in the past tense. To consolidate their knowledge of past tense verbs, all the students participated in an activity whereby the teacher chose a flashcard bearing a verb in the present tense and a student at random was asked to state the past tense of the verb, find the flashcard with that verb under the Bee Bot mat and press the proper commands on the Bee Bot so that it moved on the correct past tense verb. Everyone enjoyed using the Bee Bot!
Submitted by Ms Sharon Calleja, Yr 3.1 Teacher
Capacity
This week we talked about capacity in Maths. The students learned that capacity is the amount of liquid a container can hold. They also learned about the units we use to measure capacity, namely litres (L) and millilitres (ml). They learned that we use ml to measure small quantities and L to measure large quantities. They also learned that 1 litre is equal to 1,000 millilitres. The students also practiced making estimations of the capacity of different containers as well as reading different amounts of liquid on a scale. They did all this by means of hands on activities since we used different containers filled with water. We put green food colouring in the water so they could read the capacity clearly on the scale on each of the different containers. We estimated and poured different quantities of coloured water in different sized containers. We experimented with different containers to see if they could hold more or less than 1 litre. We even saw how many of a particular container were needed to fill up a larger container. For example, they learned that they needed 2 500ml containers to fill up a 1litre container. The students also saw different sized 1 litre containers to learn that even though they looked different, they all had the same capacity. It was a fun learning experience and the students enjoyed pouring the coloured water in the containers!
Submitted by Ms Sharon Calleja, Yr 3.1 Teacher
Counting in 3s, 4s and 5s
In class the students were learning how to count in 3s, 4s and 5s. They started learning the x3, x4 and x5 tables as well as counting on in 3s, 4s and 5s from any given number. In one of the activities we carried out in class, the children were given a flashcard of a cupcake with a number on it. Each student had a different number. They stood in order, according to the particular times table (x3, x4 and x5).
Submitted by Ms Sharon Calleja, Yr 3.1 teacher