Collected Resources

1. Time travellers
2. Doyouthinkhesaurus?
3. Dino dancers
4. The bones of an idea

1. Remind children how information books helped us find out about dinosaurs. Show a fiction and non-fiction book. How are they different? Fiction books tell stories/they are made up. Ask children to imagine what might happen if they met a storybook dinosaur. What might happen at the beginning? What would they do? What would happen in the end?!
2. (After AL2) Show The Dirty Great Dinosaur, flicking through the pages or rereading to remind children of the plot. What did children think? Was it real or made up? Did they like the story? Why? What sort of dinosaur might it have been? What did children think of the ending? Would a dinosaur really eat spaghetti? Do all stories have to be realistic?
3. Share Linus the Vegetarian T. Rex. What happened in the beginning, middle and ending? What was surprising about the dinosaur?
4. Share Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp. Pick out some of the movement words. Can children ‘plod’, ‘bounce’ or ‘amble’ etc.? What might a dinosaur dance be like?
5. Share children’s favourite dinosaur story. What makes it their favourite?

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: The Dino Hokey-Cokey (see resources): Introduce on Monday (send a copy home). Develop actions. Enjoy performing in the class dinosaur den

1. The Giant Jam Sandwich
2. Sandwich instructions
3. Ketchup on your Cornflakes?
4. Funny question

1. Sandwich ingredients
2. Sequence a story
3. Sandwich instructions
4. Comical questions

1. Recipe books
2. Role-play cafe
3. Bread van
4. Making 'bread'

1. Read Ketchup on your Cornflakes? several times and encourage the children to join in with the repeated pattern of language. Children identify and share their favourite/ least favourite meals.
2. Tuesday: Read a selection of pages from Ketchup on your Cornflakes? Say: Do you like gravy… Children finish the sentence. Model using question intonation. Repeat with Do you like ice-cream…
3. Wednesday: Read The Giant Jam Sandwich. Notice it includes pairs of rhyming words that are at the end of each line. Read the book again encouraging children to join-in and read the rhyming words. Identify if children like sandwiches and the fillings they like most/ least. Encourage children to use descriptive language, e.g. I love ham sandwiches cut into small triangles made by my granny.
4. Read The Giant Jam Sandwich. Support children to share times they have made a sandwich; identify the ingredients they used, utensils they needed and the method they followed.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: As Tasty as a Picnic by Celia Warren (see resources).
Share the poem and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Help children to vary the pitch and tone of their voice as they rehearse to emphasise words and phrases. Children perform this poem as a whole class or in small groups to the headteacher or another class in school.