Prestonpans Infant and Nursery School

Show and Tell  (from previous week)

        For my show and tell I brought in  my karate trophy.  I got it when I was four.   My big sister went to karate too.  Since we moved to Prestonpans we haven’t started back at karate again yet.  Jenny

I brought in my baby photograph album for my show and tell.       It has my favourite pictures on the front and I keep it on the shelf in my living room.   It has lots of pictures in it of me as a baby with everyone in my family.  Ellie

Storywriting

I was picked as a star writer last week.  We had to write about something we did at the weekend.  I was at my friends house where we had a game of football with our dads then we went to East Links Family Park.  My favourite thing there was the go-carts because there was a new go-cart and I got to go on it.  We chose nine star writers this week.  Christopher

Update on amaryllis growth

Our amaryllis is still growing but the leaves seem to be growing to the sides now.     We still do not have a flower stalk growing in the middle but we are keeping our fingers crossed it will start to grow before we break up for the holidays.  If the flowers is not out in time Mrs Stewart is going to take a picture of it and post it on the blog.  Amy

Painting the cow

We were chosen to go help paint the cow    because we were nearly finished our project books.  Tom was helping us and we painted two flowers, the tree trunk and the leaves.  It was good fun.  The cow was in the Gala on Saturday.  Rebecca and Coll

Project Pages

Our last two project pages were about people of the rainforest.  We had to skim and scan a fact sheet about rainforest people to fill in the missing words.     I found out that rainforest children have to do chores just like us.  The girls have to look after their little brothers and sisters as well as helping with the cooking, preparing the manioc and fetching water.  The boys learn how to hunt and fish with the men of the village.  Emily

   The second page told us how rainforest people live off the land by hunting, fishing and growing fruits and vegetables.  The main crop is manioc which is used to make flour for bread.  We found out that all the poison has to be squeezed out of the manioc before it is cooked but even this is not wasted and used  on the tips of arrows and spears.  Rainforest people share their food as they have no fridges to store leftover meat.  Rachel

Project Gallery

School Sports

We had our school sports on Wednesday afternoon.  It was kind of cloudy but not too cold and it was dry!  Everyone was put into a team with someone from all the other classes so my team had primary 1’s, primary 2’s and primary 3’s in it.  I was the team captain and had to lead the team to each activity and give the adult there the clipboard so they could write down our score. 

 Lots of mums, dads, grannies and grandads had come to watch and they could get tea or juice with a biscuit from school.  Mrs Clapperton rang the old school bell when it was time to start and time to stop each activity.  There were twelve different activities to do and two circuits.  I liked the basketball best and my team got points for good behaviour at every activity.  Alex

Transition visits to Prestonpans Primary School

On Thursday and Friday all the primary 3’s went up to the primary school to visit and meet our new teachers.       We all walked up together with our teachers and Mr Lavery.     When we got there we  split up into our new classes and went with our new teacher into our classroom.   My new teacher was not there so my class had Ms Palmer.  I did see him on Tuesday night though when our mums and dad visited the school to meet our new teachers.

In the classrooms we got to do some maths and then we all had PE.          Our own teachers did not stay with us as they had meetings to go to.  Our PE teacher was called Mrs Sellwood and we were all out on the field.     After that we had our lunch and it was good.   In the afternoon we had a little more time in the classroom before we had to walk back down to school.  On the Friday morning we walked back up but our teachers left us and      we were dismissed from the primary school.     I really enjoyed my visit and I am looking forward to going to the primary school after the summer holidays.  Ellie

CLASS NEWS

I watched the football last night and it was 2:0 to Holland but I don’t know who they were playing.  I want Holland to win.  Ryan

It is my big cousin Jennifer’s birthday today and she will be ten years old.  We are going to visit after school and take her card and present.  My mum has made a cake.  Rachel

On the Gala day my gran came back from her holidays in Madrid.  She brought me back a lollipop whistle and my brother got a DVD.  Tristian

I was in the Gala on Saturday.  I went on the St Gabriel’s Youth Club float with my sister.  I was dressed up with rollers in my hair, a headscarf and a pinny.  Emma

I went to the Gala on Saturday.  I had my hair dyed red and I went on the Miami ride all by myself.  Liam

We were playing in the Gala football tournament.  We won it 2:0 against North Berwick and got a big trophy.  Dillon

I had lots of different colours in my hair for the Gala day.  I was on the quad bikes and after that I went to a champion league thing and you could win a football, football strip or a scarf.  I won a football.  Charlie

I was in the Gala paradewith my Brownies.  I was dressed up as Daisy Duck.  Amy

I have finished my topic book and it has 55 pages in it.  Emily