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2 05, 2014

St Elizabeth’s Primary School – Dinosaur Fun

By |2023-03-12T15:10:07+00:00May 2nd, 2014|Early Years Foundation Reception|Comments Off on St Elizabeth’s Primary School – Dinosaur Fun

EYFS Children Learn All About Dinosaurs

It looks like it is going to be a very busy month for the teaching team at Everything Dinosaur.  This morning for example, our staff were at St Elizabeth’s Primary School working with Foundation Stage children conducting a series of dinosaur themed workshops.  The children had been studying dinosaurs and thanks to some helpful, free teaching resources from Everything Dinosaur the children had built their very own dinosaur museum in the classroom.

Studying Dinosaurs

EYFS Work on Display in the Classroom Dinosaur Museum

A dinosaur school display spotted by an Everything Dinosaur team member.

Children create their very own dinosaur exhibition.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur/St Elizabeth’s Primary School

Dinosaur Workshop

The children enjoyed the dinosaur workshop and then we were treated to a conducted tour of their dinosaur museum.   We saw examples of the posters the children had created along with some wonderful clay models and other artworks.  More capable learners had constructed a clock to show the opening and closing times of their museum, so great signs of independent learning.

The class enjoyed the practical fossil handling session and they were very happy to discuss facts about prehistoric animals and to explain the differences between omnivores, herbivores and carnivores.

Setting up a dinosaur museum as part of a term topic is very easy to do, Everything Dinosaur supplies some free downloads and plenty of advice on activities that can be undertaken by this age group.  It certainly has proved to be an inspiring term topic at St Elizabeth’s Primary, our congratulations to all the teaching staff.

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2 05, 2014

Dinosaur Fun at St Elizabeth’s Primary School

By |2023-03-12T15:08:04+00:00May 2nd, 2014|Educational Activities, Main Page|0 Comments

Foundation Stage Children Explore Dinosaurs

The month of May is always a busy time for Everything Dinosaur team members and May Day itself saw Everything Dinosaur carrying out a morning’s activities with Foundation Stage children at St Elizabeth’s  Primary School.  The children had been learning about dinosaurs and fossils and with the help of their teachers, Mrs Carr and Miss Bailey the budding young palaeontologists had created a “dinosaur museum” in one of the classrooms.

Exploring Dinosaurs

The Dinosaur Museum at the School

Children create their very own dinosaur exhibition.

Children create their very own dinosaur exhibition.

Picture credit: St Elizabeth’s Primary/Everything Dinosaur

The museum was full of lots of drawings and labelling exercises that the children had undertaken, with the help of Mrs Driver and Mrs Wilson (teaching assistants).  The children were keen to demonstrate which dinosaurs were plant-eaters and which ones ate meat.

Everything Dinosaur

As part of Everything Dinosaur’s visit to the school, our dinosaur expert challenged Foundation Stage 2 to create a piece of dinosaur themed writing.  Could they write about their favourite dinosaur?

Perhaps they could include a dinosaur fact,  could they recall something that the dinosaur expert had said to them and then include this in their piece of prose?  In return, Everything Dinosaur’s expert promised (pinkie palaeontologist promise), to email a drawing of an ammonite for the children’s museum along with a fact sheet on these extinct cephalopods for Mrs Carr.

A Promise to Send over Information on Ammonites

A model showing an Ammonite.

A model of an ammonite.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Learning About Ammonites

Ammonites are members of the Mollusca phylum and they are closely related to the cuttlefish, octopus and squid.  The children learned all about their wiggle-wobbly tentacles and how some ammonites swam and caught fish.

It was a full morning of activities for the children, some of which were only just 4 years of age, but they demonstrated excellent listening skills.  Although, our dinosaur expert was kept very busy, there was still time to take some pictures of the lovely dinosaur models that the children had made.

A Model of a Tyrannosaurus rex Made by the Children

A very fearsome looking dinosaur.

A very fearsome looking dinosaur.

Picture credit: St Elizabeth’s  Primary School/Everything Dinosaur

This dinosaur has some very big teeth and the yoghurt pot eyes look fantastic.  Perhaps the children can think of an appropriate name for their model, how about “Yoghurt-pot-o-saurus”?

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The combination of physical activities, cognitive processes, tactile fossil handling with the extension activity seemed to be very well received by the children and their teachers.

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