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Dinovember Adventures: Y1 Explore the World of Dinosaurs Through Curiosity and Play

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Dinovember Adventures: Y1 Explore the World of Dinosaurs Through Curiosity and Play

Returning from the Autumn Break, Year 1 was amazed to find a message from our dinosaur friends asking us to learn more about them. We instantly thought of dozens of things we wanted to know about dinosaurs. So began our celebration of November.

 

Each morning our dinosaurs would set up new provocations for us to explore different questions. Using non-fiction books and videos, class discussions and fun activities we looked at everything from what dinosaurs eat, to their body parts, how they take care of their young, the colours they were, how they sounded, what the weather was like and so much more. We built volcanoes, rescued baby dinosaurs from eggs, measured dinosaurs using our bodies, practiced dinosaur yoga, found fossils, and tried to run as fast as a dinosaur. 

Our morning routine took on a new joy as we eagerly looked forward to what the dinosaurs would help us learn that day. And we quickly discovered that an answer helped us find new questions to explore. Learning about different foods dinosaurs ate helped us to make connections to the size and shape of different dinosaurs and how their body parts helped them to eat and digest food. Learning about the family units of dinosaurs had us questioning how dinosaurs cared for their young and seeing how fossils are found had us looking for fossils all over our school yard. 

Through our curiosity and play we developed our reading, writing and listening skills as we wrote what we learned, listened to experts and read books related to dinosaurs. We solved addition and subtraction problems using dinosaurs, created venn diagrams to show what they eat and practiced using non-standard measurement to see how long dinosaurs were. Games helped us develop our memory, coordination and fine and gross motor skills. Learning has never been so fun.

 

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