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Palaeontologists at work
Dinosaurs always appear to hold a great fascination with tamariki. Learning about dinosaurs is our latest 'class project' subject at BestStart Harrison Street. We have sourced several books which have grabbed the children's interest. In addition, korero at mat time has afforded many of our tamariki to share their ideas, knowledge, and questions. We are talking about how dinosaurs: moved, what they ate, what they looked like, where they lived and researching together for answers to the questions that we don't know.
Today we had a dinosaur dig in the sandpit. Teachers made cut out plastic silhouettes of whole dinosaurs, skulls, teeth, bones, an egg with a baby dinosaur inside.
Through hands on fun our tamariki made the connection to what they see in the books, how people have learnt about dinosaurs by studying what has been found buried in the earth. The skulls provided a visual example of a meat eater and a plant eater. We talked about the difference by the clue, look at the teeth. Our children are learning that there were lots of different living things in the world a long time ago.
We have used the cut outs at the art table as an inspiration to create our own drawings of dinosaur bones. We have made our own tracks 'wow look at all those dinosaur footprints'. A meat eater with three toes or a plant eater with a larger foot.
Palaeontologists at work!