Vin's Learning Journey

Why didn't the brachiosaurus go to the party? Because he was extinct! :)

Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Perhaps the weather changed and it got cold and rainy? Or maybe all the volcanoes erupting covered everything in ash and lava? We made a volcano too. We made some dough And shaped it round a cup We made some lava! Then made an eruption!

Has it been snowing in the land of the dinosaurs? The dinosaurs are using their diggers and tractors to clear the snow! Then they needed a bit of a wash! We decided to mix some paint into the snow too: We pressed paper on top and made some foamy pictures. I think they will make good swampy scenery for our dinosaurs to play on.

Our theme for April is DINOSAURS! We've read some books about dinosaurs. We also found some mysterious eggs in the garden! We tried lots of different things to help the eggs hatch. We tried to crack them with different objects, throwing them onto the hard slate in the garden, even rolling them down the slide. It worked quite well to put them in warm water... The dinosaur babies were matched up to their mummy dinos! We also made plaster of paris dinosaurs: And painted them We made some dinosaur footprint fossils in play dough: We're looking forward to doing more fun dino things!

This afternoon we had fun with space dust! We made a sheet with 9 pictures and matching words on it. Then we cut them out and hid them in the space dust to find! We had lots of fun digging in the dust! Vinnie wrote his name in the space dust on the table! Then we matched the words to the pictures and glued them onto a piece of paper to display on the wall.

I like playing with my trains. And I like all of their colours, they're very nice and I want all of my trains to be used as table ornaments. I like my layouts I built they're so nice. vinnie

Today we visited a scale model of our Solar System in Otford. We found the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.   There was a playground there too so we could do some astronaut training! Also this week we have found out about Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin. The first two people to visit the moon. 'One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind!'