Reception’s Spring 1 topic is:
why they might grow better in different
locations.
When out and about, encourage your
child to talk about directions and where
you might be going. You could look at
maps together.
Interesting Facts

Dinosaurs
This term the Key Question we will be
trying to answer is:
What lived on Earth millions of
years ago?
You can help your child to answer our
key question by:
 Discussing different dinosaur
facts.
 Researching how they lived,
their location and setting
 Looking at photographs,
websites and books (both fiction
and non-fiction) and talking
about what you have found.

A person who studies dinosaurs is
known as a palaeontologist.
Rather than being carnivores
(meat eaters), the largest
dinosaurs such as the
Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus
were actually herbivores (plant
eaters).
Try maps.google.co.uk to look at
different locations. Try to find different
countries where dinosaurs might have
lived.
Keep practising the new
phonemes/high frequency words that
your child will bring home each week,
to increase their confidence with
reading and writing.
As always we will send home topic
leaves for your child to write something
they wish to find out about our topic.
Creative homework for this topic will
be to make one of the following:
Try and introduce as many numbers in
your environment to develop their
understanding that numbers are
everywhere. Give your child some
simple problems to solve and see if
they can answer them. Encourage
your child to think about how heavy an
object is, how big is a dinosaur?
When visiting the shops, talk about
where different foods derive from and
1. Design your own dinosaur egg.
2. Find out fascinating facts about
dinosaurs.
3. Make dinosaur food.
4. Build a dinosaur fossil.
5. Create your own dinosaur with
an information sheet.
Many thanks for your on-going
support,
Mrs May and Miss Castiglione