Dino Crazy!

This week we have really thrown ourselves into our dinosaur topic, even more than before!

We have been measuring with dinosaurs to find longer and shorter and also using a ruler to measure dinosaurs, which Great Bear were great at.

We have looked at two different ways to create clay dinosaurs and then created our own clay dinosaurs. We are going to fire and glaze them and have had interesting conversations about what a kiln is!

The pictures don't quite do them justice!

 

We also had an amazing discovery, we found a jar full of ... Well we had lots of ideas; tiny eggs, fossils, bones, dinosaur seeds and many more. So we thought about it and decided we might plant them to see what happens. The next day we found an egg where we had planted the seeds, everyone was very excited.

After lots more wondering and thinking, we created models of what we think was in the egg. We used our models to help to write creative, descriptive sentences about our ideas.

 

The egg is now safely wrapped up in a basket in the dinosaur role play area. But not completely covered as we were worried the egg couldn't breathe, which led to an investigation on, "Do animals breathe in eggs?" We have found a science investigation to help us learn more, so watch this space!
We are also worried that the egg might hatch when we are on half term as our reasearch has told us that eggs usually take 21 days to hatch but we will see!