OUR LEARNING THIS WEEK
‘We were learning about how the scientists think that the asteroid wiped out all the dinosaurs.’ Sophie
‘Palaeontologist is someone who looks for dinosaur fossils’ – Sophie
‘Palaeontologist found a fossilised leg with skin still on it’ – Andrew
‘The Palaeontologist found a dinosaur leg and they can now see that they’re actually scaly – they just assumed before that they were’. – Sophie
‘The place that found the fossils was called ‘Tanis’. – Riley O
‘The asteroid hit the planet in Mexico’ – Christopher
‘The asteroid was the size of Mount Everest’ – Donnie
After the asteroid hit, it broke into little balls. They fell from the air and they were really hot and the dinosaurs couldn’t breathe’ – Freya
‘Since the asteroid hit it was black for a decade because of all the gases blocking the sun’. – Sophie
‘After the asteroid hit there were lots of tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes’ – Hilda
‘They found a bit of meteor and now they can learn different facts about it’ – Sophie
DINOSAUR FACTS
Diplodocus:
- ‘A Diplodocus is 27 meters tall’ – Christopher
T-Rex:
- ‘T-Rex had a diet of Triceratops’ – Noah
- ‘Lots of people thought the T-Rex was the biggest dinosaur but it wasn’t. The Argentina Dinosaur was.’ – Andrew
- ‘T-Rex are one of the biggest carnivores’ – Jayden
- ‘The weight of a T-rex is 7000kg’ – Noah
Triceratops:
- ‘A Triceratops has 3 nose horns’ – Jack
- ‘The triceratops uses its horn to tear down trees’ – Theo
- ‘Triceratops are 3m long and they’re also 12000kg’ – Charlie
Stegosaurus:
- ‘The stegosaurus was 9m long and 3m high.’ – Sophie
- ‘Even though the stegosaurus was huge its brain was only the size of a ping-pong ball.
