Collected Resources

1. Select a range of objects/photos to represent people, places or tasks that are special to you, e.g. photo of a friend, pebble from the beach, bike helmet. Identify each one and explain why you chose them, including the emotions they evoke. Invite the children to share significant people, places or tasks and to share the emotions they induce.
2. A range of fiction and non-fiction books about trees and the seasons.
3. Read Stanley’s Stick. Briefly identify how Stanley uses the straight stick. Next, suggest additional ideas for how Stanley could use his second stick. Compare and contrast the suggestions
4. Read Stick Man. Display pictures of Stick Man in different locations (resources). Sequence them. Identify strategies to read each caption (resources). Apply strategies to read captions aloud.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: One, Two, Buckle my Shoe (resources; see websites)
Introduce the poem and tune on Monday (send a copy home). Rehearse and sing throughout the week. Encourage children to identify the pairs of rhyming words in the poem and to sing it rhythmically.

1. Research questions
2. Dinosaur words
3. Dinosaur information books
4. Exploring dinosaur fact files

1. Dinosaur research
2. Dinosaur investigation
3. Labelling dinosaurs
4. Dinosaur fact files

1. Museum role play
2. Dino art
3. Model dinos
4. Fossil making

1. Read Owls and Dinosaurs (Hamilton Group Reader). Display the illustrations of the dinosaurs. Can anyone recognise any of these/have a go at reading the names using some of the sounds?
2. Enjoy dinosaur raps (see websites)
3. Display and reread Owls and Dinosaurs, asking children to join in with the words they can read. They already know lots more about dinosaurs than when they first shared this book! Pick out some of the questions and practise saying them with ‘question-voices’, e.g. “What are dinosaurs?”. Can we answer some of little owl’s questions?
4. Follow children’s interests in sharing further pages from one of the dinosaur non-fiction books. Have we answered any more of our questions? Are there any other words which we could add to our vocabulary list?

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Dinosaur Roar by Paul Stickland
Introduce on Monday, reading this fun rhyming book to the class. Reread during the week, encouraging children to join in with the text as they begin to learn it. Add actions and intonation. Share with an audience on Friday.

Group Reader: Owls and Dinosaurs
Do you know your Ankylosaurus from your Iguanodon? Join Baby Owl as he discovers more about all kinds of dinosaurs and how they are closer to him than we might think.

1. Dino break-in
2. The Dirty Great Dinosaur
3. Beginning, middle, end...
4. Dino tales