Reuben shared his Home Learning with us this week and told us all that a palaeontologist is someone who studies dinosaurs. This week we have been learning all about dinosaurs teeth and what fossils are. Reuben also shared that most dinosaurs had a plant based diet. We found out that dinosaurs who ate plants had pencil shaped teeth, those who ate fish have knife shaped teeth and those that ate meat have razor sharp teeth. We learned that fossils are made when bones etc are compacted into the ground by soil etc and left for a very long time, their image is then visible on rocks and stones. We have been making our own fossils using different resources to make impressions in the play dough.
We have also been using different ways of measuring our heights and the dinosaurs. We measured our height using different sizes of dinosaur feet, we have recorded these in a graph so we can compare heights. We have been using tape measures and measuring lines both vertical and horizontal to measure height and length.
In the art area we have been making dinosaur eggs using paper machete, we glued newspaper to balloons allowing each layer to dry before adding the next. We discussed what colour the dinosaur eggs should be, the children wanted blue and yellow eggs. Once the paper machete was dry we painted them our chosen colours.
We have also been learning about the “network on our hand” which is a network of people who we can trust if we are worried, scared, sad or needing support. We drew the individual people we could trust and talked about how they could help us. We linked this to the story of A Huge Bag of Worries that we have been reading in the nursery as learning about how to keep us safe both physically and emotionally.
