Little Digmoor Primary School

Topic Map

PSED
  • Classroom rules, Children help to decide on classroom rules, encourage children to give reasons why we need rules.
  • Take photos as examples of children doing the rules. Display six rules that are accessible to the children use as an interactive display for monitoring good behaviour.
  • Long Neck and Thunder Foot –use book as a discussion point, how did the dinosaurs feel about each other? Why? What did they do? How did they become friends? Talk about a daisy chain. Explain that we are going to make a friendship daisy chain. Each child makes a daisy, children sit in a circle and complete statement “ is my friend because … “ Take small groups of children into the friendship garden look at the tiles and help to keep it tidy.
  • Friendly and unfriendly dinosaurs
/ PD
  • Move like a dinosaur
  • Attaching labels to artefacts by threading and tying Hall sessions- mats, beanbags
  • Dinosaur Hunt dance (let’s go Shoolie-shoo)
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  • Learn the names of dinosaurs and use them appropriately during activities.
  • What do we know about dinosaurs? Look at a slide show of dinosaurs and ask children what they already know about dinosaurs, also what do we need if we are to become dinosaur explorers and palaeontologists.
  • Letters – ghlo, bunc, vepk sounds making table relate to dinosaur topic and sound of the day e.g. l-lava
  • My dinosaur- children draw a dinosaur, give it a name, what does it eat where does it live – emergent writing activity
  • Long Neck and Thunder Foot-read book, linked with PSE –
  • Outside- dino word and picture match, children have a clipboard with dinosaur names with sound spots to aid sounding out they have to go and find the matching dinosaur

EYFS THEME: Dinosaurs
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  • Cave – looking after dinosaur eggs
  • Visit library and collect books about dinosaurs
  • Dance of the Dinosaurs – role play and re-enact
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  • Dinosaur board games- children make own board games based around number lines 1-10 or 20. Number bingo -20 matching amounts to numbers
  • Counting in two - 20 huge dinosaurs stomping through the forest,
  • 1 went for a swim (splash) and the other climbed a tree (crash)
  • 18 huge … create display which includes numerals to help children with recognition and count
  • Make maps-use positional and directional language
/ UW
  • Talking about the past and comparing past to the present
  • Visit Blackpool Zoo, look at Dinosaur section
  • Set up dinosaur explorers hut and trail-use children’s ideas
  • Set up palaeontologists lab/museum
  • Dinosaur dig- make bones from plaster of paris and bury in digging area or friendship garden, children carefully excavate, children sort bones by size/shape label bones with their name, can be sent to palaeontologists lab for identification
  • Sand tray- excavate dinosaurs-mini dinosaurs hidden in sand and plaster of paris mix, children use nails to chip away and reveal dinosaur.
  • Cooking- Dino foot print cookies, dino soup (veg from friendship garden where excavation site will be?)
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  • Make dinosaur eggs and hatch babies
  • Role-play areas
  • Role-play board- create a papier-mâché role play board to fit over sand tray, encourage children to think about what they want on the board e.g. volcano, river, trees, cave
  • Dinosaur display-interactive information display displaying children’s painting writing, colouring in etc
  • Music area- children help to select instruments to be displayed to created dinosaur foot steps
  • Sing dinosaur songs, we’re all going on a Dinosaur Hunt