Class 1 Term 3 Topic: Dinosaurs
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Personal, Social and
We will begin by sharing what we already know about dinosaurs.
Fine motor skills will be practiced through use of Emotional Development
Children will be learning new vocabulary such as archeologist,
tools and techniques to excavate dinosaur fossils We will be completing our
excavate, fossil, omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, paleontologist and
and bones in sand tray and from ice eggs.
first health topic learning
extinct.
We will use stencils to make dinosaur pictures.
about how we can help look
We will look at and discuss pictures of dinosaurs, which children
Children will have opportunities to make play
after our bodies.
like, why? We will sort and talk about reasoning, describing
dough and clay dinosaurs.
We will develop awareness of
features. We will look at dinosaur eggs – what might be inside?
In PE we will be completing our dance unit then
others needs and feelings
We will also consider what you might do if you met a dinosaur?
using what we have learned to move like
though the SEAL topic,
Getting on and Falling out,
Through circle times children will share their own ideas and listen
dinosaurs.
to others.
Children will make a healthy dinner for an
then develop skills to work
together through Going for
We will listen to and learn dinosaur rhymes.
omnivore and talk about how to look after our
goals.
Children will also be learning to use our walkie talkies
teeth. We will also make vegetable herbivores.
Literacy
Maths
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and
We will use non-fiction books Children will continue to
We will explore fossils, locating where they have been found
Design
and the internet to find out
practice number recognition, on map and thinking about how the earth looked when
Children will explore
facts about dinosaurs.
focusing on numbers to 20.
dinosaurs lived and how it is different now.
archeology and
We shall explore dinosaur
We will practice finding 1
We will investigate where dinosaurs lived (features of
paleontology through
names, clapping the syllables more or less than a number.
environments), what they ate (what sort of teeth – plant and
role play.
(rhythm) and finding out
Children will make estimates
meat eaters – types of dinosaur, carnivores, omnivores and
There will be
which dinosaurs start with
and begin to explore addition herbivores) and what they looked like. We will compare
opportunities to play
the same letter sound?
and subtraction.
different dinosaurs and group according to similarities.
with the small world
We will share dinosaur
We will use 2d shapes and 3d Our topic will be enhanced by a trip to the natural history
dinosaur island.
stories, including Harry and
to make dinosaur pictures
museum.
We will make junk
the dinosaurs and Dinosaur
and models.
Children will use the computers to draw dinosaur pictures.
model dinosaurs and
Roar. Through stories we will We will talk about time–
In cooking we will try to make our own salt dough fossils and
paint dinosaurs
explore rhyme.
(now, long ago) and changes
bake dinosaur biscuits.
choosing appropriate
Children will draw dinosaurs
caused by time
We will hatch dinosaur eggs (dinosaurs in ice) and investigate
colours. We will also
and label parts.
We will go on a dinosaur egg
how to free them.
make dinosaur
Children will write a recount
hunt, giving directions to
We will ask how the dinosaurs died and explore a volcanic
footprints and
of our museum visit then
partner to locate.
eruption! Finally we will think about which creatures are alive
dinosaur skeleton
make information books
We will also investigate
today that are like dinosaurs and discuss the importance of
excavation pictures as
about dinosaur facts they
height/ lengths of dinosaurs. looking after our world and caring for the environment, how
well as paper mache
have learned.
we can help animals and endangered species.
dinosaur eggs.