Sunday, February 21, 2010

Graph of Slovak Pets


















































































We have made 2 graphs. And why? We love animals and we enjoy work on our project. And a project has inspired us that we want to care about other pets. We asked parents, grandparents and you can see the results on our new graph and table.

During lesson of Informatics we have compared Slovak and Maltese graphs. Slovak children have two graphs of animals now, because we have much more pets than we had in February. Here are some comments from our observations:

We had 6 dogs in February and we have 12 dogs now. For example, we still have 3 hamsters. And fish? It was only one and there are 34 . (Hana, Sara)

Maltese children have 5 dogs less than Slovak children. We have 3 rabbits less than Malta.
(Stela)

We had less pets in February than in April. Fish were added to us the most. The Maltese children have a lot of tortoises. They have 11, we have 3. (Natka)

We have more birds and dogs than Maltese children. The animals are constantly increasing to us, because we buy new or pets were borned. (Beba)

At first we had 15 pets, and then we had 66 ones. Malta has 37 animals. (Nana)

Slovak children have 29 pets more than Maltese children. Malta and Slovakia have 19 tortoises together. (Veronika, Dominika)

Slovak children have the most dogs. It’s maybe because “The dog is the best friend of a man”.
(Samo K.)

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Puss in Boots - Carnival at School

Friday 12th February was Carnival Day at school. All children wore wonderful costumes. One child came wearing a Puss in Boots costume and he was an inspiration to add the story of Puss in Boots to our project. He related the story himself and was recorded using Audacity. The story was then uploaded on a speaking avatar with the boy wearing his costume in the background.
Enjoy listening to the avatars realting the story in four parts.

Puss in Boots - Part 1

Puss in Boots - Part 2

Puss in Boots - Part 3

Puss in Boots - Part 4

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Recording our Song

We were very enthusiastic to record and upload our Song !















Our Song to You on a Voki Avatar

Today we gathered around the computer to record our song using audacity. We saved our file ready to upload it on a speaking avatar.

We signed in www.voki.com and started to create our avatar to represent Noah.

Noah the Avatar sings the song in three parts.

Enjoy Dear Friends !

Our Song Part 1

Our Song Part 2

Our Song Part 3

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Animal Awareness Day

On the 4th of October, we celebrated “Animal Awareness Day” as this day happens to be the feast of St. Francis of Assisi who loved animals dearly. We talked a lot about animals and during creative writing session, children wrote about themselves pretending to be monkeys. Some samples of this creative writing can be seen on the blog.

I am a Monkey - Story 2

My name is Daniela. I am black and my eyes are black too. I am a little thin monkey and I live in the jungle. I am scared of wild animals. I like to eat coconuts, bananas and peanuts. I like to break coconut shells to eat what is inside. I chatter out loud and swing on the trees and I also like to swing from one tree to another. I am intelligent and mischievous and I am a mammal because I give milk to my little ones. I sleep under a tree or on a tree branch. I like to play with other monkeys and if someone tries to catch me, I run as fast as I can to a safe place. I love being a monkey because I love being free!

Daniela Magro-Conti

I am a Monkey - Story 1

My name is Chanelle. My colour is brown. My eyes are green. I am not a human being, but a cute little monkey. I live in the forest. I eat bananas, peanuts and coconuts. I break coconut shells to drink the milk found inside. I chatter out loud. I like to swing on tree branches. I like to jump from one tree to another chattering loudly on my way. I am intelligent and mischievous. I am a mammal. I sleep under a tree. I am a playful monkey. I like to help other monkeys. I am scared of tigers and lions. When somebody chases me, I run fast to a safe place. I am happy to be a monkey because I live in the fresh air of the forest and far away from all the pollution of towns and villages.

Chanelle Abela

Monday, February 15, 2010

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Graph of Maltese Pets



During Maths lesson, we created a table of pets each child owns and the results were used to plot a graph.

Later we will discuss the differences and similarities between the Maltese and the Slovak graphs. We used a powerpoint presentation to create our graph. We saved the powerpoint as a powerpoint presentation and also as a jpg, so that we can use the slide as a picture whenever necessary.