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Dinosaur Story Strips

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Dinosaurs Dinosaur Hunt

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Objectives

Early learning goal

  • Use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.
  • Represent own ideas, thoughts and feelings through art, role play and stories.
  • Develop own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
  • Use phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.

English

  • Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesizing, imagining and exploring ideas, respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes for all 40plus phonemes.
  • Apply simple spelling rules and guidance.

Lesson Planning

Children will listen to the story: Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs. They will find a message in a bottle then travel to `Dinosaur Earth´ in their hot air balloons. Children will create story strips and maps based on their adventure.

Children will:

  • Use play scenarios to link imaginative ideas with finishing a dinosaur story
  • Use drawings and/or written words to record stories.
  • Use role-play experiences to imagine and create pastel landscape drawings.

Provided Resources

  • Dinosaur land map
  • How to make a frozen Dinosaur instructions

You Will Need

  • Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs by Ian Beck
  • A glass bottle with a message
  • 1 cardboard box each
  • Strips of paper
  • Different colours of paint
  • Different sized pieces of recycled fabrics

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