Dinosaurs and Reception Class (Learning about Fossils

Reception Childen Get Excited About Dinosaurs

Reception Classes Study Dinosaurs

It has been a busy day at Mount Carmel RC Primary (Manchester, England) as the two classes of Reception children have been learning about dinosaurs and fossils with a special workshop conducted by an Everything Dinosaur team member. The workshop was entitled “Dinosaurs and Reception Class”. The children in Foundation Stage Two, have been studying dinosaurs and life in the past over the course of this half-term and they were keen to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the subject. With the help of the enthusiastic teaching team, the eager pupils had created lots of artwork and some super examples of hand-writing in their dinosaur workbooks.

Reception Children

The bright and well-organised classrooms were adorned with lots of prehistoric animal themed work that the children had produced. Our dinosaur expert has heard a rumour that one of the teachers has found some dinosaur eggs, we hope the children have thought about what materials might make a good nest for a dinosaur!

What will happen when the egg hatches? We will have to wait and see…

A Busy Morning

Splitting the morning into two roughly equal sessions, divided by the mid-morning break, we were able to deliver very tactile learning with lots of fossil handling. It was a good job that some of the children had managed to have a hearty breakfast, several of the fossils and other artefacts were heavy, but thanks to the helpful teaching assistants, the children were able cope. Lots of photographs were taken, we especially liked the snarling dinosaur faces on the big class photograph at the end of each workshop – very scary!

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The children in the two Reception classes have even been doing some homework, what a bunch of enthusiastic palaeontologists they are. One of the teachers showed our dinosaur expert a beautiful picture that Edith had brought in to show her friends at school. It is a wonderful picture of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Can you remember how many fingers T. rex had altogether?

A Wonderful Dinosaur Picture Sent in by Edith (Reception Class)

Edith painted a lovely dinosaur picture.

Picture credit: Edith (Mount Carmel RC Primary School)

Dinosaurs and Reception Class

What a colourful picture Edith! Lots of reds, blues and yellows and even a splash of white to help the green dinosaur feel at home. We like the black eyes that you gave your Tyrannosaurus rex. His eyes match the black stripe running down his back, at least we presume it’s a boy, it could be a girl T. rex. Can the children remember the special fact our dinosaur expert told them about the Tyrannosaurus rex girls?

Extension Activities

After the visit, it was straight back to the office to email over the promised extension activities and fact sheets to help support the teaching team and their scheme of work. We did set some of our “pinkie palaeontologist challenges”, including the design of the children’s very own dinosaur and an exercise which involved the careful measuring of dinosaur footprints. We even sent over a picture of a T. rex and asked if the children could have a go at labelling the various parts of his body, those small arms, the fingers and the skull of course.

Reception Children Challenged to Label a Dinosaur