Painting Faces like Birds of Paradise

In Year 4 we each have our own bird of paradise. Here we are drawing each other's faces and changing them into ideas for a bird of paradise mask.

Birds of Paradise

Today we watched part of the DVD "Planet Earth":


Aren't birds of paradise amazing!

We're starting to look more closely at the different species:



Tuesday: there's also this one which we watched a little bit of:



You can see maps of where the different species live here. You can hear sounds here.

Kenning by Macy

An animal-hunter

A stripy-stalker

A growling-worker

A white-runner

A predator-scarer

A river-swimmer

A fast-eater

A white and black-roarer

I’m a Bengal tiger!

Our rainforest

Thanks to Miss Whittaker, our rainforest display in the corridor is looking brilliant! There's the leaves we printed, the animals we painted, and some of the first poems we wrote:

What am I?

By Jaime

What Am I?

• A stain skin.
• A trees climber
• A meat eater
• A mammal animal
• A very fast runner.
• A four legs athlete
• A jungle inhabitant
• A hunter specialist.
• A very soft skin.

What am I

A Cheeky-troublemaker
A cute-climber
A tree-dweller
A mischievous-swinger
A banana-eater
A water-drinker

I'm a _______________.

Sewing rainforest flowers

We're busy sewing felt, creating rainforest flowers:

What am I?

By Anabel

A brown animal
A small-nosed creator
A very good eater
A plant liker

An insect biter
A baby cuddler
A slow walker
A loud squeaker

A striped mammal
A small being
A furry figure
A bumpy muzzle

A hay sleeper
A insignificant scamperer
A small scurrier
A grass snoozer

What am I?
Try and guess
Maybe hard
A picture might help.

What am I?

By Noémie

A noisy- squeaker
A banana- eater
A big- swinger
A little -predator
A branch-lover
A big – jumper
A leaf – hugger
A large - laugher

WHAT AM I ?

By Cristina and Lucia

A night-flyer
A small-creature

A wing-flapper
A thumb-walker

A cave-hanger
A tree-climber

A cow-biter
A blood-lover

Eagle

The bird-rooler

A fish-eater

A human-annoyer

A good-eyed eagle

A fast-flyer

A liberty-fighter

A rat-watcher

A water-toucher

A white-and-black screamer

Tarantula

an insect Killer

a good climber

a hairy creature

an arachnid

a little living thing

and an amazing catcher

I am a Tarantula

Iguana

Sometimes I stay,sometimes I run.
Through the humid leaves.
I look!
I run!
To my comfy humid home.
And sit there sleeping until dawn.


When I was younger I used to play with my brothers.
And I lay there playing and playing.


Now that I am big and old.
I live alone hunting and bieng careful I am not hunted.


Now it is time to mate.
I mate
I need to make a nest.
So I pull the vines
And pull the lianas
And there I lay Making my holy nest.


Now that my hachlings have grown.
they are big and strong.
Its time to say Bye bye.

Poem without rhyme about "Tarantula"

I always see my  pray before catching it,
I catch it by waiting until  my pray comes and then I will KILL IT!!!,
then I digest for 30 minutes,
after digesting I can play chasing animals or reptil.

If I smell an animal or reptil sleeping I often kill it for my diner.

If you think TARANTULAS are not important I will bite you or inject some poison
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!.

When I taste my pray I can fell asleep BUT if I hear,touch or smell an animal or reptil I will wake up quickly and chased around.

Don't disturb me unless you want to go to the hospital.

From the most dangerous tarantula in the world.

Amazing Parrot

I always had lived here,

Looking at the sun,

Flying in the air,

Smelling tasty food,

And smelling the tremor,

I am safe in the sky,

Sometimes I hear,

Animals growling,

River shivering,

Waterfall sliding,

Birds and parrots squeaking,

And bees buzzing,

When I smell something,

I dive into rainforest,

And see lots of my favourite food,

With my long beck I cracked the coco,

Sometimes I like eating nuts,

When I go up in the sky,

I see the shinning sun,

And not the cold rain,

When there is the sun,

I circle around it,

When its raining I dive into the rainforest,

And have my nuts in my house,

When I go up I look down and see,

Huge ,medium and small trees,

Gigantic sliding waterfall,

Long ,small plants,

And animals looking for food,

Lots of animals hunt for me,

Special snakes,

They coiled up in the trees to get me,

Or hide in plants to get me,

But nothing can get me,

Like I can fly,