Following on from a book taken in from home, 10 Dippy Dinosaurs, we watched a clip ‘All about Dippy’.
We then wondered how many bones were in a dinosaur skeleton.
We guessed first then tried to count how many. Our guesses included 619, 1300, 205, 400, 16, 120, 1 billion, 100, 600 and 101. Google told us the answer was about 200.
Then we wondered some more. Are there more or less bones in a human skeleton? What do you think?
We warmed up by listening to Jack Hartmann’s subtraction song. We then practised our number formation using whiteboard pens before completing subtraction pages in our workbooks. We had a class discussion about what subtraction means.
‘it’s taking away’
‘making a number smaller’
‘it’s minus’
‘it means less than’
‘I can use finger patterns to help’
To celebrate Dinosaur Day we created our own dinosaur based on the story ‘Frankenstein’s Cat’.
The cat in the story was made up of 9 different cat breeds and called ‘Nine’. Our dinosaur was made up of 6 different breeds and called Six-o-saurus. We worked together to create our dinosaur out of natural materials and loose parts then added our own comments about our knowledge of dinosaurs.
Dinosaur Day is 1st June 2026…
We listened to Steve Backshall presenting lots of dinosaur facts. Some of us knew him from his show ‘Deadly’ on CBBC.
National Numeracy Day celebrates numbers and how they are used in everyday life. Here are some warm up songs and dances to get you all moving, then some active learning videos covering counting, number bonds, money, fractions, time and more.
We chose which order to watch them in class using lollipop sticks with dot patterns.
We have been learning how to recognise Tricky Words in different ways. Click on the link below to find out more………
We used two hoops to practise our addition and subtraction facts.
‘We just used us and hoops’.
‘I did finger patterns to show the sums. 4 and 3 makes 7s. 4 take away 3 is 1.’
‘It was super fun!’
