Last week we began our new topic ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’.  We discussed dinosaur objects and recorded what we knew/wanted to learn.  We were very interested in dinosaur footprints.  As a result, we learned what fossils are and that palaeontologists study fossils.  We made our own dinosaur fossils using dough and went digging for pretend bones in the sand pit. 

We also looked at the different sizes of dinosaurs.  Did you know that a brachiosaurus was as tall as eight men standing on each other’s heads, a stegosaurus was as big as a bus and a T-Rex’s tooth could have been as long as 20cm! 

We labelled different parts of a dinosaur’s body.  During this we learned that a stegosaurus had plates on its back to defend itself from attack.

Thank you to Lauren as she went a trip to the museum last weekend and brought in a fossil and dinosaur egg for us to see.  We put the dinosaur egg in water and it’s beginning to crack.  We are very excited to see the dinosaur inside!