Prestonpans Infant and Nursery School

 Storywriting

For storywriting this week we had to design an invitation to our Leaving Concert.  It had to have the date, the time and the place where the concert was going to be.

Then we were allowed to decorate our invitation with rainforest creatures and plants.  My mum thought her invitation was really nice and she and my dad are going to try and come to the concert.  Ellie

Visitor in School

In Tuesday we had a visit from our community policeman.       His name is PC McBeth.  He told us about being a policeman and also about how we could keep ourselves safe and  places we should not go on our own.  Then we were allowed to ask questions about   anything we wanted to know.  If we see PC McBeth out and about in Prestonpans we are  to say hello.  Amy

Final Project Page

For the last page in our project book we had to do an assessment sheet.  It asked us if we had enjoyed the rainforest topic and if we had managed to complete our topic book.  We also had to say what had helped us most with our personal research and which format we enjoyed doing. 

I was pleased with my topic book because I put a lot of effort into it and I really liked doing this topic.  Rainforest was my favourite topic in primary 3.  Emma

Our Leaving Concert of Rainforest Songs

We have been practising the songs for our Leaving Concert.  They are all about the rainforest and some of them are quite sad.  I am going to tell my mum to bring a hanky with her.  My favourite song is the spotty song and we are all getting quite nervous - teachers as well.  Emily

P3 End of Term Treat

Our end of term treat was a visit from Laura    of the Edinburgh Zoo Outreach Programme who was going to show us some of the kinds of creatures you would find in the rainforest.

The first creature Laura  showed us was a giant landsnail called Samson.  He had tentacles on the front of his head and a shell like you would find on the beach only much bigger.     When you held him your hands were left with snail slime on them but you just had to rub them together to get rid of it.  You would find giant snails on the florest floor of the rainforest but sometimes they climb up into the understory.  I held Samson and it felt a bit tickly.  Rachel

Our second creature was a toad called Tilly.     When I got to hold her her skin felt quite bumpy.  She was yellow and green colours for good camouflage and very hoppy.  Frogs in the rainforest are very bright colours and usually very poisonous.  I liked holding Tilly the toad the best.  Dillon

Maggie was a Madagascan hissing cockroach.  Her shell is made of the same stuff as your fingernails.  It was really tickly when she walked accross my hand.     Cockroaches are one of the fastest moving insects so we had to be very quiet and still so she did not get a fright and escape.  Laura told us that cockroaches are amazing in that if you put them in a freezer for six months when you defrosted them they would still be alive!  Coll 

     The spider’s name was Rosie and she is a Chilean tarantula.  We did not get to hold her because when tarantulas are in a bad mood they can flick their hairs at you to irritate your skin.  Sometimes they even might bite.  She had a pink spot on her back and eight eyes to go with her eight legs.  Spiders eat insects and would also live on the forest floor or in the understory of the rainforest.  Sam

My favourite creature was Monty the millipede.     His back felt a bit like rough plastic and he had approximately 240 legs.  Each segment of his body had two pairs of legs attached to it.  In the rainforest millipedes eat and clear up all the dead plants that are on the forest floor.  Leah

Our last creature was a Californian King snake called Callie.  She was really beautiful and Mrs Stewart would have liked to have kept her!     She was chocolate brown and lime in colour because she lives in the desert, not the sandy desert but the rocky desert.  When I felt her she was really smooth and warm to touch.   She kept putting her tongue out of her mouth so she could smell where she was as snakes have very bad eyesight.  I think I will stick to my rabbits even though Callie was very nice.  Rebecca 

The Concert

Our concert was yesterday.  It was fantastic.  There were lots and lots of parents and friends there.  Each class did a instrumental item first and then we sang the rainforest songs.   We noticed some mums and dads were having to wipe their eyes - we  think it was because we were so good!!!  Our favourite song was Bats and we have made a podcast of it.  Please be patient as it takes a little while before it starts.         bats1.mp3   After we had sung all the songs but one, we got our Leaving Certificate and a beautiful book from the school.  Last of all we sang Moving On as we left the hall.  P3/11

Goodbye and thank you

This is our very last blog as primary 3/11.  We would like to thank everyone, everywhere, for all their support - we reached the 10,000 hits mark at the beginning of June and our cluster map looks absolutely fantastic.  Maybe you can catch up with us in primary 4, or Mrs Stewart might start a blog with her new class after the summer holidays.  Happy holidays everyone from Primary 3/11 and Mrs Stewart.