Jeremy Galea
Year 5 - Għajnsielem Primary
Gozo College
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It-Torri ta’ San Luċjan
Wara siegħa u nofs vjaġġ bil-karozza tal-linja, sħabi tal-iskola u jien, flimkien mal-għalliema wasalna Marsaxlokk. Ix-xufier wassalna eżatt faċċata tat-Torri ta’ San Luċjan, li kien mibni fiż-żmien il-Granmastru Wignacourt. Fis-sena 1988 twaqqaf bħala ċentru tal-Akwakultura, ċentru li fih isir it-trobbija tal-ħut.
Hekk kif dħalna f’dan it-torri, tlajna fuq f’sala kbira fejn il-ħaddiema ta’ dan it-torri ppreparawlna film fuq il-kreaturi differenti li wieħed isib fl-ibħra Maltin. Ħaddiem ieħor qagħad jispjegalna fuq it-tipi ta’ ħut differenti u l-isem ta’ kull ħuta. Qalilna wkoll l-importanza ta’ din l-industrija u għalfejn twaqqaf dan iċ-centru. Dan twaqqaf minħabba li l-konsum tal-ħut dejjem qed jiżdied, billi l-ħut huwa importanti ħafna għas-saħħa tal-bniedem u minħabba li s-sajd bla rażan (over fishing) qiegħed inaqqas il-kwantità tal-ħut fl-ibħra. It-tniġġis fil-baħar qiegħed inaqqas il-kwalità tal-ħut li jiġi maqbud.
Wara morna ġo sala oħra fejn rajna ħafna ħut ibbalzmat u ħafna vaski mimlijin bil-ħut. Rajna kwantità kbira t’awrat, li hi l-aktar ħuta li qiegħda tiġi mkabbra f’dan iċ-ċentru. Wara tiġi l-ispnotta. Rajna wkoll vaski b’ fkieren, li dawn ukoll qegħdin jonqsu mill-ibħra Maltin.
Il-ħaddiema tal-Akwakultura, barra li jkabbru u jagħlfu l-ħut ta’ kuljum, jieħdu ħsieb ukoll tal-ħut morda. F’dan iċ-ċentru hemm bosta laboratorji fejn il-ħaddiema jagħmlu riċerki fuq l-aħjar mod kif ikabbru l-ħut.
Ħarġa bħal din kienet t’interess kbir għalina, li minnha tgħallimna fuq it-tkabbir tal-ħut u kemm hu importanti li nibżgħu għall-ibħra Maltin.
Lara Ann Xiberras
Yr 5 Frawli
23rd April 2009
Dear Mum,
I am having a fantastic time here in Malta. Thank you for accepting to send me on this educational visit to this wonderful island in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea.
The weather has been very nice which made it easy for us to travel and walk around too. We have visited Mdina which is an old city surrounded by fortifications. It is so quiet and peaceful and its streets are winding and narrow.
The capital city is Valletta. We have been there too. This city is very lively in the morning because there are many shops, offices, an open air market and even cinemas. Most of the buildings are really old but very well kept. They date back to the 16th century when it was built by The Knights of Saint John.
The Grand Harbour which is in the lower part of Valletta is very impressive. In my opinion, it is very big and there were enormous cruise liners like the titanic. The one thing that everybody liked was eating an ice-cream under the umbrellas at the Barrakka Gardens while watching the ships.
I went to the main fishing village which is situated in the southeastern harbour of the island in Marsaxlokk. This fishing village has the largest fishing fleet of luzzu boats. Every Sundays a sizeable street market is open throughtout the day
This morning we went on a harbour cruise. The boat was not as big as the ships in the port but I still liked it very much. I sat next to my best friend Tamara and we enjoyed every minute of it.
Tomorrow they will take us to the Neolithic Temples of Tarxien. We’re all looking forward to that.
Mum, I can never thank you enough for sending me here. Although the island is small, there is so much to see. The teacher is very pleased with our behaviour. My wish is to come here again with you and my brother Paul. I will be the tour guide!
From your loving daughter
Rebekka Bartolo
On the 26 th Januay we went for an outing in Mdina. Mdina is the old capital city of Malta and is also known as the Silent City.
During the past few years Mdina has gone through a lot of restoration to preserve its beauty. On that particular Monday when our class visited the Silent City, we were lucky to have beautiful sunny weather.
As soon as we arrived there we found a guide who was waiting for us by the door, which leads towards the entrance of the city. She explained to us that there is more than one entrance to Mdina, but the one we were at was the main one.
Ones inside Mdina the guide took us to the Natural History Museum. There we could see a lot of different animals and also rocks, which are kept there to explain the Natural History of our country and the world we live in.
We then moved to the Cathedral Square and the narrow streets of Mdina where we could appreciate the old and historical buildings. We also had the opportunity to admire a marvelous view of the island from the bastions , which surround Mdina and which served as protecton in the days when our island used to be victim of pirate attacks.
When we went back to school we took some time to discuss what we saw and learnt during this outing and we decided to share it with you in this write up.
Year 5 C
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the “Red Planet” be-cause of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface.
Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having surface features remi-niscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, de-serts and polar ice caps of Earth. It is the site of Olympus Mons, the highest known mountain in the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon. Furthermore, in June 2008 three articles published in Nature presented evidence of an enormous impact crater in Mars’ northern hemisphere, 10,600 km long by 8,500 km wide, or roughly four times larger than the largest impact crater yet discovered, the South Pole-Aitken basin. In addition to its geographical features, Mars’ rotational period and seasonal cycles are likewise similar to those of Earth.
Until the first flyby of Mars by Mariner 4 in 1965, many speculated that there might be liquid water on the planet’s surface. This was based on observations of periodic variations in light and dark patches, particularly in the polar latitudes, which looked like seas and continents, while long, dark striations were inter-preted by some observers as irrigation channels for liquid water. These straight line features were later proven not to exist and were instead explained as optical illusions. Still, of all the planets in the Solar System other than Earth, Mars is the most likely to harbor liquid water, and perhaps life. Radar data from Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed the presence of large quantities of water ice both at the poles (July 2005)[8] and at mid-latitudes (November 2008).The Phoenix Mars Lander di-rectly sampled water ice in shallow martian soil on July 31, 2008.
Mars is currently host to three functional orbiting spacecraft: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. With the exception of Earth, this is more than any planet in the Solar System. The surface is also home to the two Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) and several inert landers and rovers, both successful and unsuccessful. The Phoenix lander recently completed its mission on the surface. Geological evidence gathered by these and preceding missions suggests that Mars previously had large-scale water coverage, while observations also indicate that small geyser-like water flows have occurred dur-ing the past decade. Observations by NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor show evi-dence that parts of the southern polar ice cap have been
receding.
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are small and irregularly shaped. These may be captured asteroids, similar to 5261 Eureka, a Martian Trojan asteroid. Mars can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Its apparent magnitude reaches 2.9, a brightness surpassed only by Venus, the Moon, and the Sun, though most of the time. Jupiter will appear brighter to the naked eye than Mars.
By ANNALISE ATTARD
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 Earth masses and not as dense. On average, Neptune orbits the Sun at a distance of 30.1 AU, or approximately 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. Its astronomical symbol is , a stylized version of the god Neptune’s trident.
Discovered on September 23, 1846, Neptune was the first planet found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led astronomers to deduce that its orbit was subject to gravitational perturbation by an unknown planet. Neptune was subsequently found within a degree of its predicted position, and its largest moon, Triton, was discovered shortly thereafter, though none of the planet’s remaining 12 moons were located telescopically until the 20th century. Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, which flew by the planet on August 25, 1989.
Neptune is similar in composition to Uranus, and both have compositions which differ from those of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Neptune’s atmosphere, while similar to Jupiter’s and Saturn’s in that it is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, along with traces of hydrocarbons and possibly nitrogen, contains a higher proportion of “ices” such as water, ammonia and methane. Astronomers sometimes categorize Uranus and Neptune as “ice giants” in order to emphasize these distinctions. The interior of Neptune, like that of Uranus, is primarily composed of ices and rock. Traces of methane in the outermost regions in part account for the planet’s blue appearance.
In contrast to the relatively featureless atmosphere of Uranus, Neptune’s atmosphere is notable for its active and visible weather patterns. At the time of the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby, for example, the planet’s southern hemisphere possessed a Great Dark Spot comparable to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. These weather patterns are driven by the strongest sustained winds of any planet in the Solar System, with recorded wind speeds as high as 2,100 kilometres per hour (1,300 mph). Because of its great distance from the Sun, Neptune’s outer atmosphere is one of the coldest places in the Solar System, with temperatures at its cloud tops approaching −218 °C (55 K). Temperatures at the planet’s centre, however, are approximately 7,000 K (7,000 °C), comparable to those at the Sun’s surface and similar to temperatures at the centres of most of the other planets of the Solar System. Neptune has a faint and fragmented ring system, which may have been detected during the 1960s but was only indisputably confirmed in 1982 by Voyager 2.
Marilyn Portelli
Jien Erika, u jiena ktibt fuq Ġonna popolari Maltin u għaliex jiġbdu ħafna t-turisti lehom.
Biex taraw u tkunu tafu akta dwar dawn il- ġonna għafsu għawn taħt:
Jupiter is the largest planet on the solar system. It is the fifth planet from the sun. Jupiter is made up of gas while other planets like Earth and Mars are made up of solid rock. Because of the gas near the core it gives off more heat than it gets from the sun. Jupiter is 11 times the size of earth. People used to see Jupiter from earth because it is the third brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.
By Emmanuel Farrugia
Flimkien mat-torċa olimpika jkun hemm il-Bandiera Olimpika. flimkien mal-bnadar kollha tal-pajjiżi li qed jieħdu sehem. Il-bandiera hija badja kollha b’ħames ċrieki ta’ lwien differenti minsuġin wieħed fl-ieħor. Jirrapreżentaw il-5 kontinenti prinċipali — L-Ewropa, l-Asja, l-Afrika, l-Amerka u l-Awstralja. Juru wkoll l-għaqda bejn il-kontinenti. Bl-ilwien ta’ dawn iċ-ċrieki tista’ tpinġi l-bnadar kollha tad-dinja.
