Prestonpans Infant and Nursery School

Walk to School

 We have a chart on our classroom door for Walk to School Week.  Every day on Walk to School week we had to say if we had walked or if we came by bus or car.  I walk to school every day sometimes with my big sister.  Our best day for walking to school was the Tuesday when only two people in our class did not walk at least part of the way to school.  Kelly

Storywriting

For our storywriting this week we had to design a poster saying Save the Rainforests.  We had to make it eye-catching and outline the words in black.    Then we had to draw some pictures to illustrate our poster.  We also had to write a little about why we have to try and save the rainforests.    We have been learning songs about the rainforest with Mrs Birrell and in one it says if you cut down the trees “the land will turn to sand” as the heavy rain will wash away all the good soil.  

If the rainforests are destroyed the animals will have no-where to live and no food to eat and might become extinct.   We also need the trees to make us oxygen to breathe.  Other people said that there might be plants in the rainforest that no-one has found yet which could help make very important medicines.  Mrs Stewart told us that the rainforests also affect the weather all over the world.  Ellie

Interactive whiteboard

My maths group have been working with hundreds, tens and units this week and it was a bit tricky.  Mrs Stewart found us two programmes on the interactive whiteboard which helped us understand.  The first activity was the counting machine   which showed what happened when you added 10 or 100.     The second thing was a place value chart and you had to click on how many hundreds, tens and units made up the number.  If you got it right the man had a smiley face.  We are having to use the laptop to work the interactive whiteboard just now until the men can come to fix it.  Lee

The Iron Man

We finished our story The Iron Man on Monday.     The Iron Man beat the space bat angel dragon in a challenge to see who could stand the most heat.  The Iron Man had to lie on a bed of metal girders with petrol and oil burning underneath him but the space bat angel dragon had to fly up to the sun and lie on it.   When the Iron Man went to do it for a third time the space bat angel dragon started to cry and said the Iron Man had won.   My favourite bit was when the space bat angel dragon first landed on Australia with a big bump and everyone was really frightened.  Dillon

New Serial Story

Our next story is the sequel to the Iron Man called The Iron Woman.    So far the main character is Lucy and we have just got to the bit where she meets the Iron Woman and washes all the mud and grass from the marsh off her.  I think this story is going to be just as good as the Iron Man because we have just started it and already it has been very exciting.  Emily

Project Pages

Our page this week was to take some notes about a rainforest creature so that we could do a little talk about it to the rest of our class.    I chose an Argus pheasant and found out that to impress the females the male spreads out his wing feathers to make an enormous fan - a bit like a peacock.  Then he struts up and down the forest floor calling loudly.  Only three of us managed to do our talk this week as we have been really busy but more people will do it next week.  Amy

    I chose a very strange looking bird to find out about.  The hoatzin bird prefers to live and nest on the lower branches of trees overhanging water and eats leaves, flowers and sometimes small animals.  Rachel 

Project Gallery

Lots of pictures in our project gallery this week.  We hope you enjoy them.

                                 We took our own gallery pictures this week and some of us were a bit wobbly.  Courtney

Show and Tell

   For my show and tell I brought in a teddy.  It’s called Chloe and I keep it on my cupboard.  My friend Farzaneh bought it for me for my fourth birthday.  It is a black lab teddy and she got it at the Bear Factory.  Chanelle

Games Morning

When it’s Games morning we go into our groups and play board games.  We have seven groups and seven different activities we can do.  Sometimes mums, dads, or grandparents come into school to help.  My favourite game just now is Uno.  Sarah

CLASS NEWS

I am going to the Safari Park tomorrow with my mum, my little and big cousins and my friend.  We are going because it is my friend, Findlay’s birthday.  Ellie

My brother is in a band.  They were doing a gig last Sunday for the Edinburgh Marathon.  That was their first time and my family all went to listen.  Amy

 It is only have six sleeps until it will be my birthday.  I will be eight years old.  Sarah

I am going on holiday to Callander in the summer holidays.  We went last year and my mum really liked it.  We stayed in a tent.  Rachel

I am getting my karate suit tonight.  I go to karate every Friday evening at the Primary School.  Leah

On Wednesday my brother broke the record at the primary school for throwing the javelin.  We are having our school sports next Wednesday.  Chanelle

On Saturday I am having an event called Prestonpandimonium.  My dad and his friends are going to sell comics in Prestongrange House.  Anyone can come.  Emily