Dinosaurs Topic Web: Autumn Term
Cycle 2
Year 1/2 Busy Bees
P.E. and Swimming
English
Speaking and Listening:
Sharing dinosaur facts and discussing ideas.
Fiction: Stories of fantasy worlds
Recount writing, sequencing and using story
language from: Harry and the Bucketful of
Dinosaurs and other fun and engaging story books!
Describing Dinosaur sounds, movement and appearance.
Creating our own Dinosaur, using descriptive language.
Non Fiction:
Research using Dinosaur Information Books
Writing labels, lists, captions, lists and instructions
Information texts to create a class booklet
Poetry:
Onomatopoeia and Dinosaur shape poetry
Science
Rocks and Fossils
Being Rock, Volcano and Fossil Detectives
The children will have P.E. on a Thursday afternoon.
This term will focus on Multi-skills and Fitness.
Year 2s will be Swimming every Friday
up until Christmas
(Year 1s start in the Spring term)
Topic: Dinosaurs
The children will:
make Papier Mache dinosaur eggs, dinosaur collages,
junk model dinosaurs, Plaster of Paris fossils,
salt dough bones, yoghurt pot volcanoes,
textured stamp and potato prints...
...as well as Dinosaur making and jungle creating for our
exciting ‘Dinosaur Land’ Role play area and display!
be Dinosaur detectives, write up our findings and create our own
dinosaur designs using Ipads.
Animals including Humans
Comparing living and non-living things
The differences and similarities of human and dinosaur
body parts
use Atlases and Maps to look up where
Dinosaur bones have been discovered!
We will also learn dinosaur songs and dances
…and much more!
Seasonal Changes
Celebrating Autumn time and Harvest
Children’s Ideas:
What are the names of all the Dinosaurs?
Could Dinosaurs swim? What is a fossil?
Where did Dinosaurs live? When where they alive?
How many Dinosaurs were there?
What did Dinosaurs eat?
How did Dinosaurs die?
Trips
A exciting visit to the ‘Land of the Living
Dinosaurs’ at West Midlands Safari Park!
(this will be in the Summer term. Watch out!)
Exploration of the gardens at the Weir Garden
Christmas Festivities at Tillington Farm
Religious Education
Faith in our community:
exploring and comparing different
churches and places of worship.
Thanking God for Farmers and food
Harvest Festival: 6th October
PHSE
Exploring our Christian Values:
Thankfulness and Trust
Circle time activities
Collective Worship Assemblies
Maths
Number and Place Value:
Counting, estimating and ordering numbers
forwards and backwards
Read and write numbers in numerals and words
Addition and Subtraction
Read, write and interpret number sentences
using symbols
Balancing an equation
Missing number problems
Multiplication and Division: 2, 5 and 10
Measurement
Compare, describe and solve practical problems
Sequence events in chronological order
Geometry
Identify and describe properties of shapes
A trip to our local church
Stretton Sugwas Church of England Academy 2015