Author Archives: Pete
Mud!
Mud is soft and sticky.
Mud is a mixture of water and soil.
Elephants bathe in the mud to keep cool!
Watch this mudskipper move in the mud.
Some people use mud to build houses.
Do you like to play in the mud?
Where Is It Hiding?
Where is the tiger hiding?
By Raghupraveera (Own work) /Wikimedia Commons
Where is the fish hiding?
Where is the dog hiding?
Dg-505 /Wikimedia Commons
Where is the cat hiding?
Where are the girls hiding?
Where is the boy hiding?
Photo by cdorobek / Flickr
No!
Can you read these signs?
Photo by Charles Haynes/ Flikr
Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / Wikimedia Commons
Photo by Allan Mas on Pexels.com
If I Had Wings
I could fly in the sky on an aeroplane. Aeroplanes have wings and jet engines.
Jet engine
I could bounce on a trampoline. Trampolines have springs.
Springs
Bears use their claws to climb trees.
Bear Paws. By Shizhao (Own work) /Wikimedia Commons
Tanks have tracks so it could move and not get stuck in the mud!
Tank tracks
I could float in the air in a hot air balloon.
Fire heats up the air to float the balloon
I could scuba dive in the sea with flippers.
Scuba diver
How do flippers help me swim?
How the Teachers Come to School
Joyin meets Uncle Roy, the “Train Magician”. He drives a train.
Cana meets Uncle Azan, the “Bus Doctor”. He fixes broken down buses.
Estovan and Estian meet Ms Lee. She is a bus captain.
How will you travel to school in the future?
Barry, the Bee
This bee is feeding on nectar.
This butterfly is feeding on nectar.
This hummingbird is feeding on nectar.
This mosquito is feeding on nectar.
Nectar is found in flowers.
By Daiju Azuma – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=605167
Riddles
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age.
I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?
A coin.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps.
Everyone has it and no one can lose it. What is it?
A shadow.
What has hands but cannot clap?
A clock.
It gets bigger and bigger the more you take away from it. What am I?
A hole.
I Like My Dad
Let’s learn to sing Count On Me by Bruno Mars.
I count one water buffalo in the field.
Water buffalo ploughing in a paddy field in Chongqing, China.
By Laurent Bélanger (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons
I count two tigers playing in the snow.
Tiger mother and her cub playing in the snow.
I count three thorns on the stem.
I count four firefighters spraying water on the fire.
I See a Face
What do you see?
Sparks 