Dressing Up for Dinosaur Day
To mark the start of a week of dinosaur and fossil themed learning, children in Year 2 at Southglade Primary School (Nottinghamshire, England), were given the opportunity to wear their favourite dinosaur T-shirt to school. Some children had brought in dinosaur costumes, others had their faces painted, so the Everything Dinosaur team member who spent the morning with the two classes felt very much at home.
Whilst talking through the learning objectives for the dinosaur workshops with members of the enthusiastic teaching team, our expert remarked on how spacious and well-organised the classrooms were. There was lots of evidence of various challenging fiction and non-fiction based writing projects on display, hopefully the suggestion about children in class 2HD having a pet Triceratops and what adventures it might get up to might inspire these budding young palaeontologists to write a short story about a dinosaur visiting their school.
Dinosaur Day
Teaching Assistant Mrs Walker had got into the spirit of the scheme of work by converting a hat into a dinosaur, how very creative. Can the children work out whether this dinosaur was a carnivore or a herbivore by examining the triangular and very sharp-looking teeth that Mrs Walker had cleverly added to her dinosaur themed headgear?
Mrs Walker – Complete with Dinosaur Hat
Mrs Walker with her dinosaur hat.
Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur/Southglade Primary School
Enthusiastic and Creative Teaching Teams
Under the dedicated tutelage of the enthusiastic and creative teaching team the children in classes 2E and 2HD are bound to have lots fun whilst learning a great deal about prehistoric animals over the next few days. Mrs Walker had even added some big green eyes to her dinosaur hat. Can the children come up with a name for this dinosaur, how about “hatty-saurus”!
Dinosaur Hat Up Close
A big-eyed dinosaur with spikes.
Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur/Southglade Primary School
The green spikes located on the head (also known as the skull, as discovered by Year 2 today), are very impressive and we love the big eye. All to soon, it was time to leave, but we provided a dinosaur themed measuring exercise for the children to try, plus a novel extension activity that involves using some everyday materials to measure just how large a Tyrannosaurus rex could be.
Further Extension Resources to Support Learning Objectives
Once back at the Everything Dinosaur HQ there was just time to send out some emails with dinosaur drawing materials and fact sheets to help support the learning objectives.
To view the range of educational, dinosaur-themed toys and games available from Everything Dinosaur: Dinosaur Toys and Gifts.
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