We started the year with our very exciting topic of ‘Could a dinosaur live in Wingham?  We are having great fun finding out about dinosaurs: What they ate, where they lived and how they became extinct! We wrote questions about what we wanted to find out and we also made predictions about whether a dinosaur could ever have lived in Wingham. The majority of the class said NO! We had some very interesting reasons for why they could and couldn’t which included : because it is dangerous and they would get eaten by people.

We have made our own dinosaur fossils and pictures of dinosaurs in a city!

At the start of the term we went to Betteshanger Park and took part in some fossil hunting.  It was amazing to find fossils in the rocks.

In maths we have been doing place value and are still working on addition and subtraction..  We have used numicon, numberlines, tens squares and place value counters to help us work out many different problems and strategies to know the value of each 2 digit number.

In English we have been reading the book “Gigantosaurus” by Jonny Duddle.  We have written adjectives and adverbial noun phrases to describe the characters. We started off by making Gigantosaurus’ eye using clay, they are very scary! We have freeze framed parts of the story, acted out the story and rewritten it in our own words. We have been learning about poetry and all the different types of language we find in poems like similes, alliteration and rhyming words.

In Outdoor Learning this term we have been exploring making dinosaurs using natural materials and making autumnal pictures.

When our Dad’s or significant males came in to school we did a bit of fossil hunting and also planned our dinosaur puppets that we are going to sew for our DT lessons. We have started practicing sewing different stitches in preparation for making our puppets.

In PE we have been learning hockey skills and we can hold out stick correctly and dribble and pass a ball. We have also been doing gymnastics and have practiced different ways of balancing, rolling and jumping off apparatus.