Adding 10, 20, 30 and 40

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Whilst learning about adding 10 and other multiples of 10 the year 3.2 students were visited by Incy Wincy spider. He showed them how to add 10 by jumping along on the number grid. He also showed the students how to add 20, 30 and 40 by using the number grid as well as other methods. One of these methods included using bottle caps to add 10 to a given number and playing a board game to add 10, 20, 30 and 40. The students also practiced adding 10, 20, 30 and 40 mentally and writing their answer on their mini whiteboard for immediate assessment and feedback.

Submitted by Ms Sharon Calleja, Yr 3.2

Learning Maths by doing…

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Learning Maths can be tricky. However when students are presented with Maths in a fun way, learning becomes more meaningful. These year 2 students can be seen exploring different ways of using coins to make up the same value, while working in groups and discussing the various options. 

Submitted by Ms Janice Vella Muscat, Class Teacher

Pizza by our young chefs…

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 The Kinder 1 students of Ms Nag and Ms Joanne enjoyed a cookery lesson in the school’s new kitchen. Students rolled out the dough and smeared tomato paste on the surface of the dough. They then added some sausages, olives and mozzarella. The pizzas turned out to be delicious. 

Apart from enhancing their fine motor skills, children learned about shapes and had time to socialise in a very entertaining way.

Valletta Fieldwork

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The students of Mr Cassar, in year 6.1, have been out and about in the capital city of Valletta. Students learn best when on site. The Valletta fieldwork is part of the social studies curriculum.

The students had a narrow escape with the weather since the minute they set foot on the bus to come back to school it started raining.

Plurals of Words ending in ‘y’

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Students have been learning the plural of several nouns.  Indeed, during one week they learned that nouns ending in ‘y’ can be tricky; some drop the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’ while others add only an ‘s’ after the ‘y’.  To rehearse what they had been learning students were divided in groups.  One activity was a board game.    After throwing the dice, students had to pick the correct card number, read the sentence and change the noun in brackets into the plural.  Students wrote their answers on their mini whiteboards.  For the other activity students had to use the Bee-Bot.  Students chose and read one flashcard (a singular noun ending in ‘y’) at a time.  Then, they had to program the Bee-Bot properly so that it would stop on the correct plural of the given word.   

Submitted by Ms Miranda Cauchi, Yr 3.1

Clean-Up Campaign

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The Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Deo Debattista, is currently launching a clean up campaign to teach the citizens to make better use of the diposal facilities available, while making people aware of the kind of rubbish that is being thrown illegally. 

The Year 3 and Year 4 students enjoyed a show which was animated by “Gawdenz”. The students enjoyed the show, while at the same time helped in sorting out rubbish in the various bins and bring in sites at their disposal. 

They finally sang a song Flimkien Għal Malta Nadifa while accompanied by two friendly characters Garby and Tidy.

More information can be found on this link. Below you may listen to the song.

English Oracy Lesson

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During an English Oracy lesson students were divided in groups.  Each group was given eight picture cards.  The class teacher explained that the picture cards which tell a storyand each group had to put them in the order they thought was right.  Then, pupils listened to the story for the first time.  While listening to the story pupils had to check and see if they had put the pictures in the correct order.  If not, they had to rearrange them.  Students listened to the story for the second time and rechecked their picture cards.  Finally, the pupils narrated the story using the picture cards as prompts.

Submitted by Ms Miranda Cauchi, Yr 3.1

Printing using fallen tree conifers

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The students of Ms Josianne in K1.1 have been very busy lately. During one of their sessions the students made beautiful printings using fallen tree conifers collected from the school garden. Through such activities students learn about colours and texture, while enhance their fine motor skills. Such activities also enhance socialisation and team work. Well done 🙂

Promoting the use of Public Transport to save the environment

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The Year  1 and Year 2 students have participated in an awareness campaign to enhance the use of public transport. The aim of this event is to encourage more people to make use of the “Tal-Linja” card and public transport to reduce traffic on the roads and thus reducing the impact of car exhaust on the envrionment. The students were offered to receive the Tal-Linja card for free.