THE LITTLE TIMES

                                    Little Angels School

                                    Newsletter  No. 15

                                     Website: www.littleangelsschool.com

Dear Parents, students and friends,

Welcome to our first newsletter for this scholastic year.  I hope that you all enjoyed your summer break.  At school we are already working on a number of projects which you will read about in this Newsletter. 

Comenius Project

This exciting project is now in its second year and we have already started doing a number of activities.  The Junor 1s, 2s and 3s worked on story telling in Maltese.  They used 2 books called Pina tat is-sufan and Il-Libsa ta’ Sina.  The teachers read the stories, then the children colored pictures depicting the story and even made a collage of some of the pictures.  The 2 books as well as the artwork were given to all our partners. Our partner schools gave us their work and their books, which were all shown to our students.  The Junior 4s, 5s and 6s worked on the historical aspect of the project.  This was linked to Social Studies.  Three famous Maltese personalities from the past, Dun Mikiel Xerri, Sir Temmy Zammit and Dun Karm Psaila were chosen.  A folder was created using pictures and some information about these personalities.  This work was also given to our partner schools.  Our partner schools in turn will be giving us their work and in this way all our students will be learning some history of the countries of our partner schools. Some teachers from Hungary, Poland and England visited our school.  The Junior 4s, 5s and 6s prepared a short welcome celebration for our colleagues. 

Christmas Concert

This year our Christmas Concert is going to be held on the 14^th December at St.Aloysius College.  The exact time will be announced later.

As usual all the school will be taking part. 

Cultural Outings

This term the Junior 1s will be going to St.James’ Cavalier (Tell me a story session), the Junior 2s will be going to the Natural History Museum in Mdina, the Junior 3s will be going to a town, Mosta and a village, Mgarr, the Junior 4s will be going to a Fire Station, the Junior 5s will be going to Mdina (Domus Romane, Knights of Malta, Medieval Times and Mdina Experience) and the Junior 6s will be going to Valletta (St.John’s co-cathedral, Palace Armoury and the Malta Experience)

Malta International Bookfair

We encourage you to visit the book fair at the Mediterranean Conference Centre from Wednesday 14th to Sunday 18^th November.  There will be various activities for children such as story telling sessions, meetings with famous authors as well as getting to know about new books.  If you would like further information regarding this activity, please do not hesitate to call the school office.

CHILDREN’S WORK

My School

My school is Little Angels School.  I have been going to this school since I was a little boy.  Now I am in Junior 5.  WE have a nice and big school and we keep it very clean.  Our teachers are very friendly and helpful and so is our Head of school, Mrs.Stivala.  Sometimes, we go on outings to interesting places like Mdina.  We also have swimming lessons.  Sometimes even teachers from other countries visit our school.

I am very proud that I go to Little Angels School.

Benjamin Zarb Junior 5

Myself

My name is Andrea.  I am seven years old.  I have no brothers or sisters.  I have brown hair and brown eyes.  I am tall and slim for my age.  My favourite colour is red.  My favouite food is pasta. I enjoy playing with my toy dinosaur.  I like to draw pictures.  I am scared of spiders.  When I grow up, I would like to be a fisherman.

Andrea Farrugia  Junior 3

My Brother

My brother’s name is Ethan.  He is eight years old and he will be nine in August.  He is quite tall and slim.  His eyes are green and he has light brown hair.  He is very fair.  He likes to play football. My brother is scared of snakes.  We often play together but sometimes we fight.  We share our bedroom.  I love my brother because he makes me laugh.

Leah Rianne Muscat.  Junior 3.

My Cat

My cat’s name is Spanky.  He is grey.  My cat drinks water and likes to eat fish.  When mum comes home, Spanky purrs to show that he is happy.  Spanky likes to sit in a warm spot.  He cleans his face with his soft paws.  His claws are very sharp but he does not scratch me.  Spanky keeps mice away from our house.

Matthew Borg Galea.   Junior 3.

My baby sister.

My sister’s name is Nicole.  She is one month old.  Nicole is still small.  Her hair is straight.  Her skin is fair and her eyes and hair are brown.  She likes to have us around her.  She cries when she is hungry.  Nicole is scared of loud noises.  She likes drinking a lot of milk. She likes to play with her toy giraffe.  I love my baby sister and I help my mother to look after her.

Catriona Vella      Junior 3.

Who’s that? 

Who’s that laying in the corner?

Who’s that swimming in the sea?

When to open that mystery door?

With what, maybe a key?

But why do I unlock secrets?

Just for a simple prize?

Or is it for a noble quest?

That needs one more try.

But these words going on in my head longingly

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Daniel Briffa     Junior 6

The Weird Dragon

Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived a dragon.  This dragon was not an ordinary dragon, as instead of shooting fire, he shot ice.

This special dragon lived in a cave in Antartica.  There are many legends about him.  This dragon likes to eat bricks of ices and people say that he can sleep for thousands of years.  It is also said that in the dragon’s cave, there are lots of diamonds. 

Many Eskimos have tried to take diamonds out of the dragon’s cave, but whoever went in did not come out.

One day, an American explorer came to visit Antartica.  During his visit, he made a terrible mistake.  He went straight to the dragon’s cave.  There he was met by a horrible sight as the cave was full of frozen skeletons.  The dragon was also there but luckily he was fast asleep.

The explorer took many pictures, both of the skeletons as well as of the dragon.  But all of a sudden, right after the flash, the dragon slowly opened his eyes.  He immediately saw the intruder in his cave and roared very loudly.

The explorer was petrified and found that he could not even run…….

The dragon came closer and closer to the explorer.  Suddenly, the dragon moved his hand towards the explorer and handed him a bag full of eggs.  These were not ordinary eggs, they were dragon eggs.  The dragon looked as if he was going to die.  Suddenly he just vanished off the face of the earth.  That was the end of the dragon.  He was never heard of again.

The explorer realised that he was the only one to own these special dragon eggs.  He decided to take tham to a safe place.  When the people of the town heard that the explorer had these dargon eggs, some tried their luck at stealing them but to no avail.  The explorer had turned his hiding place into a very safe dungeon.  He fit laser alarms so that if anyone got anywhere close, a loud siren would go off.  After some time, everyone gave up trying to steal these eggs.  After studying these eggs, the explorer decided to turn them into a tourist attraction. 

Nowadays, the dungeon with dinosaur eggs is a very popular tourist attraction.

Max Spiteri   Junior 5.