Dinosaurs and this weeks' learning!

​This week was our final week on our topic ‘Amazing Animals’, and this week we have focused on dinosaurs! Our story of the week was “Bumpus Jumps Dinosaurumpus”! We started the week exploring ‘How Dinosaurs Lived’. We found out that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago (we used our class timeline to help us imagine how long ago it was!) and found out that most dinosaurs were herbivores and this meant that they ate plants but some dinosaurs were carnivores and they ate meat. We learnt about how the teeth that dinosaurs who were herbivores were different to the teeth of dinosaurs who were carnivores – can your child remember the difference? Team EO also found out the different places where dinosaurs used to live such as: wetlands, forest, desert, North and South Pole and even the sea! 

We have had an extremely busy week - creating observational paintings of daffodils, adding spikes to dinosaurs for our funky fingers activity, writing “I can see…” sentences about dinosaurs, retelling and creating our own dinosaur stories and practising our pencil control by tracing over patterns!

​In Literacy our Year 1 children have finished writing their diary about what they have done on each day of the week. We have used purple pens to edit our writing and we have read our diary to our peers!

​In Maths, Reception have been continuing to develop their subitising skills. A key focus has been on developing our understanding of doubles to support subitising skills and our ongoing development of visualising skills: encouraging the children to look carefully at structured arrangements, such as those shown on dice and 10-frames, and then to close their eyes and explain what they see. 

 Year 1 children have been finding the missing part of a subtraction story and equation, developing our understanding that addition and subtraction are inverse operations and that addition is commutative and we have begun work on our number bonds to 10. We have used the song “Farmer Pete” to help us remember our number bonds to 10!

In RE, this week we have watched several videos about the Easter Story and we have spoken about ways Christians celebrate Easter. We also revisited the Muslim special time of Ramadan and again spoke about ways in which they celebrate.