Week beginning - Monday 31st January - Dinosaur Week

We began the week with a class Story Cafe, focusing our learning around a new fiction text called The Girl and the Dinosaur. We began by sharing he book and then the children caroucelled around the classroom partaking in a variety of activities.
1) Designing an imaginary world
2) Writing a story influenced by the book
3) Writing a poem influenced by the poem in he book
4) A book review
5) A dream jar, influenced by the dreams that Marianne had

In afternoon we came together as a whole school to discuss possible design ideas for our T-Rex! We then went back into our own classes to complete our designs, coming back together at the end to share ideas.


























 


On Tuesday we caroucelled around in our houses as a whole school. Completing different dinosaur related cross curricular activities. The children learning about omnivores, herbivores and carnivores and made lunch for a dinosaur, they compared the size of a T-rex's foot to the size of ours, drew life size dinosaurs and made dinosaur fossils!



























Our costumes!













































On Thursday we began decorating our dinosaur, influenced by the children's ideas and designs. Each child has drawn their own rainbow on the dinosaur to represent themselves and our school. 


































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