Prestonpans Infant and Nursery School

Storywriting

On Monday for our storywriting we had to make a list of things we would like to do for Sunshine Day.  We couldn’t do outside stuff though because the weather forecast was for a very rainy day. 

Once we had made our list we had to draw a picture of the six things we had chosen.  Top of my list was arts and craft and then listening to music.  Rachel

Exciting News

On Monday we went to the CNN website for some really exciting news and pictures.   An aeroplane flying over a part of the Amazon rainforest had discovered a tribe of people that no-one knew about.    There were photographs of long huts and in one of the pictures the tribesmen were trying to fire their bows and arrows at the aeroplane.  I thought this was very exciting because something new had just been discovered.  Alex 

Favourite Poems

We have been listening to poems about conservation from three different poetry books.      My favourite poem is Mummy, Oh Mummy    which is in the book What on Earth…….   It’s about a little boy asking his mummy what pollution is.   In the poem his mum is actually polluting the countryside but doesn’t know she is doing it.  Rebecca

     I like the poem the Monkey King by Richard Edwards from the Moon Frog book because it is funny.  The monkey king doesn’t want to be king because the monkeys keep disobeying him and tying knots in his tail.  Dillon

I think the best poem is Banana Slug also by Richard Edwards.     I like it because it is funny to think about someone in the jungle laying down their banana and picking up a banana slug and eating it.  Alex

I liked the poem I’m a Parrot in the Earthways poetry book.       I liked this poem because it showed how we shouldn’t take creatures away from where they live and keep them locked up.  The parrot turned bad and tried to peck people because he was so unhappy locked up in a cage.  This was a really sad poem.  Emily

Our Amaryllis 

This week we have a new plant in our classroom.  It is called an amaryllis.  It grows very quickly so we have put it beside the board and we are going to mark how much it grows each day.       We saw pictures of what it would look like on Google images.  We only started marking yesterday and already it has grown past the mark.   Mrs Stewart thinks it will be a red flower.  Lee                                                                                                                                           

Interactive whiteboard

We had two new maths activities on our whiteboard this week.  Both were on the Rainforest Maths site.  The first was all about position and there were four activities to do. 

                              

 There was a word activity, grids, paths and mapping which was really a primary 4 activity.  It was good fun putting the animals in the right position.  My favourite one was the paths.  Christopher

We also had a capacity activity where we had to estimate how many containers could be filled up by the liquid in a jug.   The bigger the container the smaller the number could be filled and the smaller the containers more of them could be filled.  Once we had typed in our estimate then we could click on the fill button to see if we were correct.  Tristian

Sunshine Day

My favourite thing on Sunshine day was getting to watch some of the video of The Witches by Roald Dahl.  We read the story as our class novel at Halloween but never had time to watch the video until now.  It was really scary.  Ellie

I liked the arts and crafts table on Sunsine Day.     I made a Father’s Day card for my Dad.  I used foil paper and and little sticky-on glittery pom-poms.  Sarah

Alan, Mrs Stewart’s son, brought his Wii in again for us and we were playing games on it.  First we played tennis, boys against girls and the boys won. 

                                                                                      

Then we played tenpin bowling and this time the girls won and lastly we did ski-jumping.   The ski-jumping was my favourite and I managed to land one time and my score was 23.  Leah

In the afternoon we listened to some music together.  We listened to Vanessa Mae, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Peatbog Faeries and some opera.  My favourite was Vanessa Mae.  Kaitlin

My best thing on sunshine day was free drawing. 

                           

             

I drew a transformer picture and a sign for my room.  I really like drawing and draw a lot at home.  Lee

I was on an i-book with Liam.       We were drawing on Kidpix and then we did the pairs game on Thinking Things.  Courtney

Sunshine Day Gallery

We got to take pictures of our cards and drawings on sunshine day with the new camera. 

 

Mrs Stewart set it so that even if we wobbled the pictures would not be blurred. 

Sports Day

We were meant to have our Sports day on Wednesday but it was cancelled because it had rained all day on Tuesday and the grass would still have been too wet which would have made it slippy and dangerous.   We hope we will be able to have our sports next Wednesday - fingers crossed for good weather.  Charlie

Project Pages

This week we have been finding out about the emergent layer of the rainforest.   The tallest trees grow as high as 200 feet and stick out from the canopy like upside down umbrellas.   They have buttress roots to support them and protect against the high winds and small waxy leaves to hold water.  Emma 

Our second page about the emergent layer was to find two creatures that live there, draw their pictures and copy two facts about them.    I chose the harpy eagle and found out it was the worlds largest eagle and that they use the same nest every year.  My second creature was the gliding tree frog whose webbed hands and feet act like a parachute.    Emma chose a toucan and bees.  Coll

      Our other sheets this week were about rainforest foods.  First we had to colour in a sheet showing lots of foods that come from the rainforest and then we had to do a quiz using the picture to help us.  Amy

Project Show and Tell

I did my show and tell about the sloth      and told everyone that the three-toed sloth is the slowest mammal in the world.  Sloths are herbivores.  Emily

  The blue morpho butterfly was my show and tell and I found out that the bright colour is caused by the way the tiny scales on the wings reflect the light.  The blue colour is so dazzling that these butterflies can be seen from above by low flying aircraft.  Emma

I chose a chimpanzee for my show and tell talk.  I told everyone chimpanzees eat fruit and use twigs as tools to dig for food like ants or termites.  Christopher

   My project show and tell was about a spider monkey.  I found out that because of their body size as they are quite small they have little to fear from the eagles that hunt above the canopy.  They are called spider monkeys because of the agile way they move about in the trees using their long thin limbs.  Lee

  

Show and Tell

For my show and tell I brought my Topps Match Attax cards.       They show just English team footballers and come in packs of nine cards.  Sometimes you get a special shiny one in the pack.  My favourite one is Kasper Schmeichel    the goalkeeper for Manchester City Football club.  Tristian

CLASS NEWS

This Tuesday coming, me and Amy are going to start learning about getting our cooking badges at Brownies and we are going to bake some cakes and make a salad.  Rachel

My mum was in Ireland on Tuesday and Wednesday.  She was visiting relatives because it was their birthday.  Sam

My dad told me yesterday that Gretna is no longer a football team because no-one gave them money to keep going.  Christopher

It is my birthday today and I am eight years old.  I got a baby Annabel pram and a baby boy and a baby girl to go with it.  I am going out for a meal with my family for my birthday.   Sarah

I am getting a Nintendo Wii.  I am getting it tomorrow because it is my birthday.  Jonathan

I am getting a new Dalmation puppy tomorrow.  Lee

I am getting a Nintendo Wii at the end of the month because I am always bored and have nothing to do.  Leah

I am going to Wallyford Gala on Saturday with my Auntie Shirley.  Ellie

My brother is doing another gig - the same place as last time - and my family are all going to listen.  Amy

It will be my Auntie Julie’s birthday soon and she is coming to my house for a party.  Emily

My Auntie Linda was at a wedding when her baby started to come.  She had to go to the hospital and she had a baby girl.  Kelly

It will be my little sister’s birthday next Tuesday and she will be four years old.  Erin