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Aimed at 3years+
Aim: Getting a feel for doing a project and collecting information
from books, sites, games and jigsaws. Learning new words, playing and
imagination, counting and sorting and recognising letters.
Colouring: Print out sheets and stencils.
Model making: Junk models, landscape, playdough cut outs and 3d
models.
Classified cards: Using cartoon and realistic clipart--naming.
Matching cards: Introduce the idea of snap games and further sorting.
A visit: Check for fossil/dino/prehistooric exhibitions in area.
TV programme: Walking with Dinosaurs, maybe Disney Dinosaurs, Fantasia
I. Songs:
Learn the ones printed from net and try and incorporate some sound
practise.
Cooking: Dinosaur biscuits, maybe ice a cake, make a jelly.
Dressing up: paper mache hats/masks and cloaks with things stuck
on?
Story/reading: look out for cartoon based or simple books and stories.
Jigsaw: Wooden jigsaw, make some with clipart?
Spelling: D for dinosaur plus some letters on cards--can you see
a dino starting with I?
Counting: Using small shapes, create some worksheets using clipart,
stencils, stamps.
Sorting: small models or bakedplaydough into feeding groups/
land/water/air etc.
Colours: paint some funny coloured dinos on paper or baked playdough.
Facts: meat/plant, land/water/air, big/small.
Art/collage: material sticking, baked playdough on background, painting,
dino eggs.
History: time line, end of dinosaurs.
Geography: pangea, land and water and globe exercises.
Science/nature: bones, digging up, fossils, circle of life, reptiles.
Cultural/religion: Ummm… well, a bit of Genesis maybe?