This week and last week, Room 3 have been learning all about dinosaur fossils. Last week, we had fun talking about what fossils are and how they can be used as evidence to show that dinosaurs really did live a long time ago. We had a super discussion about how fossils were made over time and then enjoyed making our own salt dough fossils as part of our IDL learning through play. Have a look at some of our designs!

Following on from our fossil making, this week we learned about how these fossils can be found and who does this job. We were exposed to the new word ‘palaeontology’ and learned that this was the name of the job people have when looking and finding fossils. We also learned that these people are called palaeontologists. We began this lesson by seeing if we could find any fossils by using a paintbrush to dust off sand in a tray. We were excited to find parts of a dinosaur amongst the sand and worked together to reassemble this skeleton on the board. After a bit of a debate, we used our prior knowledge to decide that this was the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Following this, many of us enjoyed using some time during our play to build our own T-Rex skeletons.

 

Pupil Voice

Below are some comments from our learning this week.

PC – I liked making the red nose for Red Nose Day.

VC – I liked making my clock.

KR – I liked making a base during play with my friends. 

ET – I liked learning the ‘sh’ sound.

AR – I liked doing assembly.

RC – I liked learning about the fossils. 

ST – I liked when the tables went missing. 

CB – I liked when we did some play with the dinosaur bones. 

CJ – I liked PE in the pitches yesterday. 

LB – I liked colouring in the clock. 

 

Enjoy your weekend!

Room 3 and Mrs Rae 😊