What we did this week - 30th January

 Making a dinosaur zoo with Duplo

We moved onto our next set of sounds this week in Phonics by learning y, x and ch. We talked about different objects with these sounds: yoghurt, yak, yellow, fox, box, x-ray, chocolate, children and cheese. We also learned the key words 'yes' and 'was' and thought of sentences with these words. In Literacy this week, we continued our work from last week by making up our own simple dinosaur stories. We choose a good and bad dinosaur and drew pictures to go with the story.

We made our own dinosaur stories

Using the dinosaurs to take away one

In Numeracy this week, we practiced the vocabulary 'more' and 'less'. We also began to take away by counting back. As part of our Numeracy, on Friday we made biscuits. The children loved being 'mini cooks' and helped to measure the ingredients and stir it all together. We made one big biscuit of a 'Diplodocus' dinosaur for us all to share and then made one animal biscuit each to take home. I hope you liked them - they were very tasty! :)

Making dinosaur biscuits

Using playdough to make the numbers to 10

Designing 'Dinosaur Land Maps'

For topic work this week, we talked about what the land would have looked like when dinosaurs were alive. We pretended we were a bird flying in the sky and discussed the things we would see from this view e.g. trees, water, rocks, swamp. Most of us realised that there would be no people or houses. We then used our ideas to make dinosaur land maps.