Teaching - Part 39

19 05, 2016

Beautiful Dinosaur Drawings from St David’s Day

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Children from St Thomas More School Send in Dinosaur Drawings

Tuesday, 1st of March saw a team member of Everything Dinosaur visiting the Key Stage 1 classes at St Thomas More Catholic First School (Redditch), to deliver some dinosaur and fossil themed workshops to support the spring term topic. In the classroom we saw lots of models and dinosaur drawings.

Dinosaur Drawings

Amongst the many extension activities we suggested, our prehistoric animal expert challenged the children to have a go at designing their very own dinosaur. Under the expert tutelage of the experienced teaching team, the children in Year 1, a mixed Year 1 and Year 2 class and in Year 2 certainly set about this task with relish. A few days ago, we received an envelope from the school and inside was a selection of the very colourful drawings the children had made.

Colourful Dinosaur Drawings from the Key Stage 1 Classes

Lots of lovely dinosaur designs sent into Everything Dinosaur by Key Stage 1.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

Learning About Food Webs and Scientific Working

The children had been learning which dinosaurs were herbivores, which were carnivores and what types of dinosaur were probably omnivorous. In addition, the simple experiments that the teaching team had incorporated into their diverse scheme of work helped the children to get to grips with the fundamentals of working scientifically. The dinosaur themed workshops we delivered on St David’s day (March 1st) certainly proved popular with the children and the teachers and we were delighted to receive a number of dinosaur illustrations that the pupils had devised.

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A Splendid Dinosaur Drawing by Alex

Alex sent Everything Dinosaur a picture of “Alexosaurus”.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

Alexosaurus by Alex

Alex sent in a wonderful dinosaur drawing. We love the thick neck and the spikes running down the body. We challenged the children to have a go at labelling the body parts of their very own dinosaur. This dinosaur was named “Alexosaurus”. Ironically, there is a dinosaur genus called Alxasaurus (pronounced Alks-ah-sore-us). Although descended from meat-eating dinosaurs (carnivores), Alxasaurus was very probably an omnivore.

An Illustration of Alxasaurus

A scale drawing of the theropod dinosaur Alxasaurus.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

For models and replicas of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals: Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal Models.

Alxasaurus may have been a spectacular looking dinosaur with its toothless beak, long arms, huge claws and feathers but Victoria’s illustration is of an even more amazing animal.

Victoria’s Prehistoric Animal Design

Victoria imagined a brown dinosaur with huge green spikes.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

Victoria imagined a huge, brown, herbivorous dinosaur with massive triangular spikes running down its back to the tip of its very long tail. The dinosaur has been named Vicosaurus, and Victoria even drew a prehistoric tree and a stream so that this dinosaur had something to eat and some water to drink.

They are certainly a most impressive set of dinosaur drawings. Our thanks to Katy the teacher, for sending them into Everything Dinosaur.

18 05, 2016

March of the Dinosaurs

By Mike|2023-04-29T06:56:56+01:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching|Comments Off on March of the Dinosaurs

St Thomas More School Study Dinosaurs

As part of Everything Dinosaur’s teaching work during the spring term, a team member visited St Thomas More school (Worcestershire). Team members were there to deliver a series of dinosaur and fossil themed workshops to the various classes. We set the children at the school a number of prehistoric animal themed challenges including fiction and non-fiction writing activities. In addition, we asked the pupils to have a go at designing their very own dinosaur. Sure enough, the enthusiastic, budding palaeontologists created a number of wonderful dinosaur drawings and, we are delighted to say, one of the teachers sent us a selection.

Prehistoric Animal Pictures Sent to Everything Dinosaur

Lots of lovely dinosaur designs sent into Everything Dinosaur by Key Stage 1.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

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March of the Dinosaurs – Helping to Develop Vocabulary

As part of our “design a dinosaur” challenge we asked the children to have a go at labelling the various body parts of their creature. This helps the children to gain confidence with writing and assists with the development of their vocabulary. We received some very impressive drawings, they have been pinned up onto one of the walls in our warehouse and they make a very colourful display. Dinosaurs and fossils as a term topic provides a very rich and diverse range of learning objectives for the teaching team and at Everything Dinosaur we support teachers by providing lots of free prehistoric animal themed resources to permit the role out of a teaching programme with lots of variety.

For dinosaur toys and games: Dinosaur Toys and Gifts.

Victoria’s “Vicosaurus” A Very Spiky Dinosaur

Victoria imagined a brown dinosaur with huge green spikes.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

Well done Victoria, we really appreciate the time and trouble you took over your dinosaur drawing.

A Very Colourful Prehistoric Animal Designed by Alex

Alex sent Everything Dinosaur a picture of “Alexosaurus”.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

Dinosaur Themed Drawings

As with all the dinosaur themed drawings and letters we receive from school children, our team members look at every one and we really enjoy putting them up onto our warehouse wall. If the dinosaur designs we received from the children at St Thomas More Catholic First School are anything to go by, then there are some very talented artists currently studying fossils and dinosaurs in UK schools.

To enquire about a dinosaur workshop in your school: Contact Everything Dinosaur.

16 05, 2016

Reception Children and Marvellous Dinosaurs

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:38:09+01:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: Early Years Foundation Reception|Comments Off on Reception Children and Marvellous Dinosaurs

Egerton Primary Reception Class Study Dinosaurs

Back in April, a member of the Everything Dinosaur teaching team visited Egerton Primary to deliver a dinosaur and fossil themed workshop to the Reception class. Our morning visit certainly went down well with the teachers and the enthusiastic children all enjoyed handling the fossils and learning lots of facts about prehistoric animals. We challenged the children to have a go at writing a fact about a dinosaur in a dinosaur footprint. We duly received a very well written set of “dinosaur foot facts” written on dinosaur footprints from the class.

A Handwriting Exercise Using Dinosaur Footprints

A thank you note from a child in Reception class.

Picture credit: Egerton Primary School

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The Dinosaur Footprints Writing Exercise

Writing in a dinosaur footprint a great exercise for a Reception class. The relatively small space and the unusual shape of the foot forces the child to concentrate on the shape of letters and the spacing of words. In addition, care is needed to write in the space so this helps to build up writing confidence and hand to eye co-ordination. The children need to think carefully about what they are going to write. We appreciated the little dinosaur and fossil drawings too.

Our thanks to the teaching team for sending in these super dinosaur footprints.

For dinosaur themed toys, games and models: Dinosaur Toys and Gifts.

15 05, 2016

Great Work from Year Two at Great Wood Primary

By Mike|2023-04-27T17:06:00+01:00May 15th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching, Key Stage 1/2|Comments Off on Great Work from Year Two at Great Wood Primary

Wonderful Dinosaur Drawings and Letters from Year 2 Classes

After a dinosaur workshop at the school, (Great Wood Primary), Everything Dinosaur challenged the two classes of Year 2 with a number of extension activities and exercises. For example, we asked the children to think about what a dinosaur might need to survive and then to have a go at designing their very own prehistoric animal. We received some wonderful dinosaur drawings and very clever prehistoric animal designs. For example, Lydia sent us in a very well labelled blue and yellow dinosaur with amazing armour. Aidan sent in a dinosaur drawing with a big nose horn.

Dinosaur Drawings

A Dinosaur Designed by a Pupil

Aidan (Year 2) designed a long-necked dinosaur.

Picture credit: Great Wood Primary School (Aidan)

We received lots of beautifully labelled dinosaur drawings and not just dinosaurs too. Caleb for example, drew a picture of his favourite prehistoric animal – a giant sea monster! The sea monster had giant flippers and enormous teeth. Our congratulations to Caleb.

A Letter Writing Exercise

Another extension activity we proposed whilst conducting our dinosaur workshops with the Year 2 classes was to have the children write thank you letters to Everything Dinosaur. We received letters from all the children and just like the excellent dinosaur drawings, we have pinned them up on one of the walls in our warehouse. They do make a colourful display.

One of the Letters Sent into Everything Dinosaur

A thank you letter sent into Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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This exercise permitted the children to practice their handwriting skills as well as helping to reinforce learning with regards to the dinosaur term topic. The children also had the opportunity to ask questions, as unfortunately, we could not answer all the questions during our visit to the school. For example, Nathan asked were there lots of tall dinosaurs? There were certainly lots of very tall dinosaurs, perhaps the tallest of all were those long-necked dinosaurs whose front legs were longer than their back legs.

Sauropod Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus, Giraffatitan or Lusotitan, whose fossils were found in Portugal, all had very long necks and would have stood very tall, perhaps as high as a five storey building. Then there is the immense Mamenchisaurus from China. This Chinese dinosaur had one of the longest necks of all the known dinosaurs. The tall dinosaurs evolved so that they could feed off the tops of trees, the parts that other plant-eating dinosaurs could not reach. The children wanted to know about long-necked dinosaurs.

A Papo Brachiosaurus Dinosaur Model

Papo Brachiosaurus dinosaur model. Exploring the laws of Darwinism.

In our studio – Papo Brachiosaurus. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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Once again, a very big thank you to all the children in Year 2 at Great Wood Primary school. We really appreciate the letters and drawings and we are glad everyone enjoyed our dinosaur workshops. Have fun with the rest of the dinosaur themed term topic.

15 05, 2016

Year 2 Classes at Great Wood Primary – Dinosaur Hunters

By Mike|2023-04-27T07:53:23+01:00May 15th, 2016|Categories: Educational Activities, Main Page, Teaching|0 Comments

Year 2 Classes at Great Wood Primary Explore Dinosaurs

Last month, we visited Great Wood Primary in Lancashire to work with the two classes of Year 2 to help them explore dinosaurs and fossils as part of their term topic entitled “Dinosaur Hunters”. Our thanks to the talented teaching team Mrs Parkin, Mrs Coulthard, Mrs Stroud and Miss Nicholson for their assistance on the day.

Dinosaur Hunters

A special thank you to Mrs Norman for helping to put the gym mats away once the two dinosaur workshops had concluded. An extension idea we suggested was to challenge the children to “design their own prehistoric animal” and we received last week a set of beautiful and very creative dinosaur designs. We loved looking all the different animals and reading the labels that the children had carefully added to their drawings.

A Very Colourful Display of Dinosaur Designs by Year 2 Children

A selection of prehistoric animal designs by a Year 2 class at Great Wood Primary.

Picture credit: Great Wood Primary School

One of the Wonderful Dinosaur Designs (Great Labelling by Great Wood Primary)

Blake_o_saurus by Blake. An extension activity after a dinosaur workshop.

Picture credit: Great Wood Primary School (Blake)

Some very impressive labelling of the dinosaur’s body parts by Blake (Mrs Parkin’s class).

Aidan Designed a Long-Necked Dinosaur with a Sharp Nose Horn

Aidan (Year 2) designed a long-necked dinosaur.

Picture credit: Great Wood Primary School (Aidan)

Creative Dinosaur Designs

Challenging the class to design their own prehistoric animal is a great way to help reinforce learning. Labelling of the various body parts helps a child to develop their vocabulary as well as exploring ideas about what the dinosaur might have eaten, its colour and where it might have lived – this leads on to exploring simple food chains and animal adaptations.

Both classes of Year 2 children wrote letters and these were kindly sent into Everything Dinosaur by the teaching team. An extension activity such as writing a thank you letter gives the children the opportunity to practice their handwriting and there were certainly some splendid letters sent into us. The letters and drawings have been posted up on one of the walls in our warehouse.

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A Lovely Letter Sent in by Hannah

A thank you letter sent in by Hannah to Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Great Wood Primary School (Hannah)

Studying Stegosaurus

Hannah and her class mates certainly seemed to have enjoyed the dinosaur workshop. She asked how many years did a Stegosaurus live? That’s a fascinating question and palaeontologists have been able to use the fossilised bones of dinosaurs to work out how old some dinosaurs were when they died and how quickly they grew. The most famous Stegosaurus fossils come from the United States and these fossils are more than 145 million years old. It is likely that some stegosaurs could live for perhaps as long as twenty years.

For models and replicas of Stegosaurus and other prehistoric animals: Papo Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animal Models.

A Letter from Charlie

Charlie wrote that he now knew that birds are related to dinosaurs.

Picture credit: Great Wood Primary School (Charlie)

A very big thank you to both classes of Year 2 at Great Wood Primary, we are sorry that we can’t answer all the questions but we will post up more examples of the children’s work on our social media pages and email the school to say thank you for sending them all into our offices. As we post up the letters and drawings it will help to remind us about the fun we had delivering the dinosaur workshop for Year 2.

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13 05, 2016

Egerton Primary School and Special Dinosaurs

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:29:21+01:00May 13th, 2016|Categories: Educational Activities, Teaching|0 Comments

Reception Class Learn All About Dinosaurs

Last month a team member from Everything Dinosaur visited Egerton Primary School (Cheshire), to conduct a dinosaur themed workshop with the Reception class. The children really enjoyed handling all the fossils and learning about prehistoric animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex, ammonites and Triceratops.

Dinosaurs

As part of our work with schools we always try to provide extension materials and ideas for activities to help the teaching team reinforce learning. For example, our fossil expert challenged the children to have a go at writing a dinosaur fact within a dinosaur footprint. This morning, amongst all our correspondence we found an envelope from the school and within it there was a set of wonderful dinosaur footprints, showcasing the handwriting of the children.

A Dinosaur Footprint Themed Writing Exercise

A collection of dinosaur footprints sent in to Everything Dinosaur by Reception children.

Picture credit: Egerton Primary School

Helping to Gain Confidence with Writing

The dinosaur footprint exercise helps to build confidence with writing. Using a cut-out dinosaur footprint, the challenge for the children is whether they can produce a piece of writing within the confined area of the footprint. This helps develop hand-to-eye co-ordination as well as helping the children develop their concentration. A simple handwriting exercise such as this assists with finger spacing of words and enables the children to write about a fact they had learned or perhaps something that they did during the dinosaur workshop.

Thank You Very Much Everything Dinosaur

A thank you note from a child in Reception class.

Picture credit: Egerton Primary School

“Dinosaur Mike” enjoyed working with the children. They were very enthusiastic and eager to learn.

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Design a Dinosaur

As well as the examples of handwriting we also received some beautiful dinosaur and flying reptile drawings. We challenged the children to have a go at designing their very own prehistoric animal. Could they label the body parts such as the skull, the teeth and the claws?

A Wonderful Dinosaur Design by Emily (Reception Class)

A colourful drawing of a flying reptile (pterosaur).

Picture credit: Egerton Primary School

The picture above shows a very colourful drawing of a flying reptile (pterosaur) by young Emily in a Reception class. We love the name “Emilyosaurs” – very creative.

These children at Foundation Stage 2 (Reception), produced some fantastic prehistoric animal drawings and many of them had wings, it seems that pterosaurs are particularly popular at Egerton Primary this year. Super labelling of the body parts – well done all!

For models and replicas of pterosaurs and other prehistoric creatures: CollectA Prehistoric Life Models and Figures.

12 05, 2016

Dinosaurs on National Limerick Day and Some Special Poems

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Dinosaur Limericks and Poems

Today, May 12th, is regarded as “National Limerick Day”. It is an annual celebration marking the anniversary of the birth of the English poet, author and illustrator Edward Lear. It was Edward Lear who helped to popularise limericks and nonsense prose when he published his best-selling “Book of Nonsense” in 1846, a time when the public’s fascination with prehistoric animals and fossils was beginning to take hold. Can team members at Everything Dinosaur write a dinosaur poem or limerick?

Teaching Idea

Here’s a suggestion for primary school teachers, to help them develop schemes of work encompassing creative fiction within a dinosaur term topic – why not challenge the class to a dinosaur poem writing competition?

Below is a picture sent into us by a teacher who had found a book of limericks and poems all about prehistoric creatures and she was using this book to help encourage her own class with creative, fiction writing.

Poems About Dinosaurs – Building a Fiction Writing Element into the Dinosaur Themed Term Topic

A poem about the hadrosaur Parasaurolophus.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The Crested Dinosaur Parasaurolophus

Parasaurolophus was a duck-billed dinosaur, fossils of this herbivorous dinosaur have been found in North America. It is famous for having a very long crest. It had been thought that these animals lived in lakes and swamps and that the crest served as some form of snorkel. However, most palaeontologists now believe that these structures played a role in display and vocalisation – Parasaurolophus may have had a loud honk! Parasaurolophus was scientifically described and named in 1922 following the discovery of an almost complete fossil skeleton in the Canadian Province of Alberta.

A Model of the Dinosaur – Parasaurolophus

PNSO Wyatt the Parasaurolophus dinosaur model

A PNSO Wyatt the Parasaurolophus spotted going for a wander in one of Everything Dinosaur’s packing rooms.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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Dinosaur Poems and Limericks

A dinosaur poem or limerick composition exercise can certainly be a fun and innovative way of helping to encourage the class to develop their skills in terms of word usage and creative writing. Boys sometimes can be very unenthusiastic when it comes to writing stories. However, with a focus on dinosaurs, even the most reluctant writer might be persuaded to compose a poem about a Tyrannosaurus rex!

With this in mind, here’s Everything Dinosaur’s contribution in honour of Edward Lear and National Limerick Day. The limerick is called “Extinction”.

A Dinosaur Inspired Limerick

A limerick inspired by dinosaurs by Karen Costello-McFeat.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

We hoped you liked our dinosaur limerick. What can you come up with?

Can the children in your class write a better limerick? Can they think of words to rhyme with dinosaur, Tyrant King and Triceratops? That’s a challenge for National Limerick Day!

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10 05, 2016

Remarkable Four-Year-Old “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:30:26+01:00May 10th, 2016|Categories: Early Years Foundation Reception, General Teaching|Comments Off on Remarkable Four-Year-Old “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”

Australian Boy the “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”

News has reached the teaching team at Everything Dinosaur about a remarkable little boy from Sydney (Australia), whose parents have put forward to the Guinness World Records organisation in recognition of his great dinosaur knowledge. Proud parents Qing Zhang and Hill Wang have put forward their son four-year-old Makan in a bid to have him recognised as the “youngest dinosaur educator”. Speaking to the Australian media outlet 9news.com.au, which broke the story, mum Qing Zhang stated:

“He’s got an amazing memory. He can tell what each dinosaur’s traits are, what period they lived in, whether they’re omnivores or herbivores.”

Youngest Dinosaur Educator

Dinosaurs Help Children Learn

Now out of production the original Schleich Therizinosaurus replica. Dinosaurs help children learn.

Picture credit: Schleich

The Schleich range of prehistoric animals are ideal for robust play.

To view the Schleich range: Schleich Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animal Models.

Impressive Knowledge About Prehistoric Animals

Makan certainly loves dinosaurs and from the media release it is clear he has a great deal of knowledge. It is even more remarkable as he has yet to learn to read. However, we know that most Foundation Stage teachers will be aware of children who also seem to possess an encyclopaedic knowledge of prehistoric animals. At Everything Dinosaur we have had the great pleasure of meeting children, some of which are not much older than three years of age, who have demonstrated a remarkable amount of pre-knowledge about dinosaurs. Children seem to have a fascination for these long extinct creatures and relish the challenge of learning their long and complicated names.

Lots of Young Children Demonstrate Dinosaur Knowledge

Blake sent a dinosaur drawing to Everything Dinosaur. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

A Clever Little Boy

Makan’s parents state that their son has memorised more than thirty different species. He has built up his knowledge by watching dinosaur programmes. With the assistance of illustrated prompt cards, Makan can now recall the names of dinosaurs and facts about prehistoric animals on command. We think, that many teachers will have taught children who also demonstrated remarkable knowledge about dinosaurs and perhaps these children along with their teachers should be given recognition too.

Everything Dinosaur team members encourage children and help them. We are committed to helping young people learn about dinosaurs.

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Do You Know a Dinosaur Expert?

We praise Makan’s mum and dad for encouraging their son. Learning about dinosaurs will help to equip this talented little boy with the sort of life-long skills that will help him to adapt, adjust and thrive in formal education. Teachers, do you have a very knowledgeable dinosaur expert in your class? If you do, we would love to hear from you and perhaps, with the permission of the grown-ups in charge, your pupil could be put forward as the world’s “youngest dinosaur educator”.

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10 05, 2016

Is this Four-Year-Old the “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”?

By Mike|2023-04-26T08:04:38+01:00May 10th, 2016|Categories: Dinosaur Fans, Educational Activities, Main Page, Teaching|1 Comment

Australian Four-Year-Old Dinosaur Expert in the Guinness Book of Records?

During Everything Dinosaur’s daily trawl of news channels looking for prehistoric animal related media releases and dinosaur news stories we came across this piece from the Australian media outlet 9news.com.au. Sydney based Hill Wang and Qing Zhang have put forward their four-year-old son to the Guinness World Records organisation in a bid to have him recognised as the “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”.

The “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”

Many Children Have a Fascination with Dinosaurs?

Children playing with dinosaur and prehistoric animal models.

Picture credit: Schleich

To view the range of Schleich prehistoric animals and figures: Schleich Prehistoric Animal Figures.

Young Makan Wang has managed to memorise a lot of facts about prehistoric animals, especially dinosaurs. His parents claim that he has learned about more than thirty different species, hence their bid to have four-year-old Makan officially recognised by the Guinness World Records organisation as the “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”.

Makan’s mother Ms Zhang explained to a reporter at 9news.com.au that her son had memorised the information about these long extinct creatures by watching television programmes and as a result, with the aid of illustrated prompt cards, he can now recall a number of names and dinosaur facts on command.

Impressive But Not Exceptional

Given Everything Dinosaur’s extensive outreach work in schools and museums, our team members get to meet thousands of young people every year and although Makan has an impressive amount of knowledge, in the opinion of team members at the Cheshire (UK) based company, his ability to recall dinosaur facts and figures is not out of the ordinary.

Mike Walley, one of the teaching team members commented:

“It is always great to hear that dinosaurs are capturing the imaginations of young children and helping them to develop their vocabulary and their understanding of the world, but we meet dozens and dozens of children every year who demonstrate an astonishing level of knowledge and whilst Makan’s recall of facts and figures is impressive, based on what information we have from the news story, he is not exceptional.”

A Very Big Fan of the Dinosauria

Grown up but still a big fan of dinosaurs.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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Proud Parents

Makan’s parents should be very proud of their clever little boy. His fascination for dinosaurs is clearly evident but is he the “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”? This title is an epithet that the parents themselves came up with, but we have met many equally enthusiastic dinosaur buffs who could give Makan a run for his money.

His mum, Qing Zhang explained:

“He’s got an amazing memory. He can tell what each dinosaur’s traits are, what period they lived in, whether they’re omnivores or herbivores.”

Makan’s dinosaur expertise at such a young age is admirable, especially when you consider that the little boy can’t read, however, in our experience working with Nursery and Reception-aged children, most classes tend to have a classroom dinosaur expert with an equally impressive ability to recall dinosaur facts and figures.

With an application submitted to the Guinness World Records, we wish Mr Wang, Ms Zhang and young Makan all the very best with this endeavour and we wholeheartedly agree with their sentiments when mum comments:

“We wanted recognition that he is young and is doing an amazing job. Whether he wins it or not, for us, it doesn’t really matter that much. We want him to continue to learn and this is encouragement for him. We’re so proud of him and we’re happy to see where he goes from here.”

Do You Know of a Young Dinosaur Expert?

Mums and dads, grandparents and guardians, do you know of a budding palaeontologist that could take on the title of being the “Youngest Dinosaur Educator”? Our team members are constantly amazed by the level of pre-knowledge that very young children demonstrate when it comes to introducing a dinosaur topic at school, our dinosaur experts have even been corrected on a few occasions when we ourselves have tripped up over our dinosaur facts and figures – we would be delighted to hear from other proud grown-ups who might have their very own resident dinosaur expert in the family.

Now there’s a challenge!

5 05, 2016

A Beautiful Dinosaur Display

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:32:47+01:00May 5th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching, Key Stage 1/2|Comments Off on A Beautiful Dinosaur Display

An Attractive Classroom Dinosaur Display

Whilst visiting Great Wood Primary school in Lancashire to deliver a dinosaur themed workshop for two classes of Year 2 children, Everything Dinosaur’s fossil expert was given the opportunity to view the spacious classrooms. The school, located in Morecambe is expanding and a number of building projects have taken place but skilful planning has kept any disruption to the teaching scheme of work to a minimum. The Year 2 children are just starting their dinosaur term topic and under the enthusiastic tutelage of the teaching team they have already explored a number of key ideas related to life in the past.

A Dinosaur Drawing

Dinosaurs – Part of a Display Area in One of the Classrooms

Blake sent a dinosaur drawing to Everything Dinosaur. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The photograph above shows a dinosaur drawing created by young Blake. The dinosaur drawing exercise was undertaken as part of an extension activity. This will help to tie in cross-curriculum aspects of the term topic, in this instance, scientific working exploring dinosaurs being linked to geography. The wall, part of a series of “wow walls” set up by the teachers to showcase the children’s work all have plenty of space on them to allow some of the work undertaken by the children, examples of dinosaur posters and fiction writing, to be posted up so that parents and other school visitors can view how the topic has been developed.

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Dinosaur Workshop

The children really enjoyed the dinosaur workshops we delivered and given the exciting scheme of work the teaching team have developed, we are confident that these budding young scientists will find this topic great fun.

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