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19 02, 2015

Exploring Dinosaurs at Hadfield Infant School

By | February 19th, 2015|Educational Activities, Main Page, Teaching|0 Comments

Foundation Stage/Year 1/Year 2 Study Dinosaurs and Fossils – Exploring Dinosaurs and Fossils

Children at Hadfield Infant School have had a busy day learning all about dinosaurs, fossils and life in the past.  The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have started a term topic all about prehistoric animals.  Some of the children found a “dinosaur egg” in their classroom, what type of dinosaur could have laid such a big egg?

Exploring Dinosaurs

The egg had started to hatch and sure enough, the children had a baby dinosaur to look after.  We hope that they will learn all about dinosaur plant-eaters and meat-eaters so that they can work out what to feed it!

The Dinosaur Egg in One of the Classrooms

Schoolchildren discover dinosaur egg.

Schoolchildren discover dinosaur egg.  A teaching resource for a dinosaur and fossils term topic. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

What if the Dinosaur Escapes?

What would happen if the baby dinosaur escaped one evening?  Where would the dinosaur go?  Can the children follow the dinosaur’s travels around the world?

Our dinosaur expert felt very much at home at the school today.  On the wall in the hall where he had been working was a big picture with lots of bones in it.  The children learned that scientists look at the fossilised bones of dinosaurs so that they can work out what they looked like and how they lived.

A Great Backdrop for a Dinosaur Workshop

Learning all about fossil bones of dinosaurs.

Learning all about fossil bones of dinosaurs.  Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Everything Dinosaur Answering Questions

With the enthusiastic support of the teaching team the children will have a wonderful and engaging topic to study up to the end of the spring term.  There were so many amazing questions asked during the day, questions such as what was the biggest crocodile of all time?  How big were the plates on the back of Stegosaurus?  Good job the children had been working on their phonics to help them work out the difference between big, bigger and biggest.

We sent over some extension resources to help the teaching team answer some of the questions that we did  not get round to in our dinosaur workshop.  We think this term topic is going to be a “roaring success”!

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19 02, 2015

Children at Hadfield Primary Learn About Fossils

By | February 19th, 2015|Early Years Foundation Reception, Key Stage 1/2|Comments Off on Children at Hadfield Primary Learn About Fossils

FS2, Year 1 and Year 2 Learn About Dinosaurs and Fossils

Helping pupils to learn about dinosaurs and fossils.

Learn About Dinosaurs

Everything Dinosaur took over the hall at Hadfield Infant School today as they delivered a set of dinosaur themed workshops aimed at Foundation Stage 2 and Lower Key Stage 1 children.  The workshops were very visual and tactile and involved lots of physical activities as well as fossil handling.  The back drop to the dinosaur workshop was very appropriate as the children had been working on a previous term topic all about the human body and there were lots of drawings and artwork of “funny bones” posted up onto one of the walls.

A Wonderful Backdrop for a Dinosaur Workshop

A dinosaur learning topic background.

Learning all about fossil bones of dinosaurs. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

It was certainly an exciting day for the children, the teachers enjoyed themselves too.

Children Loved Looking at the Fossils

One EYFS teacher stated that the “children loved looking at the fossils”, whilst another described the dinosaur workshops conducted by Everything Dinosaur as “a great start to our dinosaur topic”.

Commenting on the day of prehistoric animal fossil themed activities, the dinosaur expert from Everything Dinosaur stated:

“We wanted the sessions to act as a provocation to enthuse the children and help to inspire the teaching team.  A number of exciting extension activities have already come out of the workshops and we will be emailing over more resources tomorrow to help the teachers with this term topic.”

Everything Dinosaur stocks a wide range of dinosaur themed, educational resources including replicas of iconic fossil animals.  To visit Everything Dinosaur’s award-winning and user-friendly website: Everything Dinosaur – Toys and Games.

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur added that team members had been preparing additional teaching resources to despatch to the teaching team at Hadfield Primary.  These additional teaching materials would be sent out tomorrow to continue our support of the term topic.

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