Be sure to check back here on Monday 6th April for the final blog post before the Easter holiday. There will be lots of family fun for you to take part in including an Easter quiz and a picture Easter egg hunt. There will be 6 posts between 9-9.05am so make sure you scroll down to see them all.

In school we started to embark on our very own dinosaur research projects. Unfortunately we only got to the planning stages of our project. Why not carry on your research at home? You could use the field guide on Dinosaur Train to find out facts about your chosen dinosaur. Try and remember which dinosaur you and your group decided to focus on as part of your research. Use what you find to write your own fact sheet including how big your dinosaur was, what it ate and other interesting information. You could even create your own Top Trumps card or create a page for a non-fiction book based on your dinosaur. It could include labelled pictures and some captions of information. You could use an old shoe box and fill it with fun and interesting facts. Why not cut a piece of string the same size as your dinosaur to put in? You could make some salt dough food to represent what the dinosaur ate. Where in the world did your dinosaur live? Could you add in some sand if it lived in the desert or some leaves if it lived in the forest? Get as creative as you want with the information you find out. Work on this a much or as little as you want over the Easter holiday. 

Check out this page to read some interesting and fun dinosaur facts The Dinosaur Museum

We started to talk about doubles in school and used dominoes to explore doubles and not doubles. Listen to the Doubles Rap (1-5) to warm up your maths brains Double Rap. If you have your own set of dominoes at home, have a game with your family. Be sure to check the learning pack for more fun ideas to practise doubling. Use a mirror to double or a see the picture below for ways to get creative. You can use a muffin tin and anything small to help with the calculations. If you have any dice at home ask your child how to play DOUBLE BUBBLE! (You both roll a dice, so you’ll need two, and if you land on the same amount of dots you shout ‘DOUBLE BUBBLE’ and then call out what the double calculation is).

Dinosaur Discovery on BBC Bitesize is a great game for learning lots about dinosaurs. Collect the stickers as you complete each activity. The Diplodocus activity talks about measuring footprints and recording them on a chart. Measure the footprints of people in your family and record these on your own chart. Think about different units for measuring such as tape measures, rulers, lining up pegs, pennies or spare buttons. Use whatever you can find. Who has the biggest and smallest feet? What else could you measure? Can you do some of your own research and find out how big your favourite dinosaur was?

Dinosaur Discovery BBC Bitesize

   

 

 

Keep practising your tricky words. Use the home learning pack to help you to write them down, get somebody in your family to hide them and then go on a tricky word hunt! You must have a go at reading them before you can collect them up. For an extra challenge, look at the word, cover it and write it. Check to see if you got it correct. Here’s a couple of our tricky word songs to get you started…

Tricky Words and Sight Words Song

Phase 3 Tricky Word Song Say Hello To