Reception – Dinosaurs

Reception – Beware of the Dinosaurs! 

Project Overview

In Reception this half term we have been learning about Dinosaurs. It all started with a curious find… Someone left a mysterious egg in our classroom! We decided to look after it, so we made a nest and signs to protect our egg. The children made their predictions on what would come out of it, we learnt about oviparous animals and used our guesses to prompt writing. The following week we discovered that it was in fact, a dinosaur egg! Mummy Dinosaur left a letter asking us to look after the egg a little longer and to thank us for our kindness she also left a copy of ‘Tyrannosaurus Drip’! We loved reading the story and we focused on sequencing the main events, learning about the structure of a story: beginning, middle and end.

We became palaeontologists – just like Mary Anning – and learnt all about fossils. We looked at how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past of our planet.  We even looked at dinosaurs ‘coprolites’ (a fancy word for dinosaur poo!) to decide if they were herbivores, carnivores or omnivores. The children enjoyed making their own dinosaur fossils using salt dough and learning how to draw dinosaurs with a guided drawing activity. To conclude our learning journey we invited the company Teach-Rex to bring an interactive T-Rex in to school. The children were able to learn about dinosaurs in a fun and exciting way and even take part in a green screen workshop.

What The Student Says

"I think it will be a T-rex because we found very big prints! It can’t be a tiger because they don’t lay eggs.”

"Dinosaur are extinct! That means that they are not alive anymore."

"Some dinosaurs are carnivores, that means that they eat meat! They eat other dinosaurs."

“I loved when Jam the T-Rex came to visit. He liked it when we tickled his chin.”

"I think I found a dinosaur tooth in my garden! I am a palaeontologist now."

What skills were developed?

  • observed and made predictions

  • asked questions to retrieve information

  • wrote a fact file

  • sequenced the main events of a story

  • created observational drawings

  • been learning how to orally rehearse a sentence before writing

  • practiced recalling of number bonds to 10

  • sang a range of well known songs

  • inventing and acting out their own stories during Helicopter Stories

  • created their own salt dough using measuring skills

  • continued to develop their scissors skills

What the Teacher says

It has been such a fun and exciting half term! The children loved the topic and used their dinosaur knowledge and their imagination to help develop their writing. I am so proud of their achievements and I cannot wait to see what the next term will bring.

- Miss Korenika, RLK Class Teacher

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Clapgate Primary School
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Deputy Headteacher: Miss Taylor
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