Reception – Dinosaurs

Reception – Beware of the Dinosaurs! 

Project Overview

In Reception this half term we have been learning about Dinosaurs. It all started with a curious find… Someone left a mysterious egg in our classroom! We decided to look after it, so we made a nest and signs to protect our egg. The children made their predictions on what would come out of it, we learnt about oviparous animals and used our guesses to prompt writing. The following week we discovered that it was in fact, a dinosaur egg! Mummy Dinosaur left a letter asking us to look after the egg a little longer and to thank us for our kindness she also left a copy of ‘Tyrannosaurus Drip’! We loved reading the story and we focused on sequencing the main events, learning about the structure of a story: beginning, middle and end.

We became palaeontologists – just like Mary Anning – and learnt all about fossils. We looked at how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past of our planet.  We even looked at dinosaurs ‘coprolites’ (a fancy word for dinosaur poo!) to decide if they were herbivores, carnivores or omnivores. The children enjoyed making their own dinosaur fossils using salt dough and learning how to draw dinosaurs with a guided drawing activity. To conclude our learning journey we invited the company Teach-Rex to bring an interactive T-Rex in to school. The children were able to learn about dinosaurs in a fun and exciting way and even take part in a green screen workshop.