Making Salt Dough Fossils and Bones

Miss Collins made use some salt dough at home foe us to make bones and fossils out of.  First we had a play with the dough and some of us found that it hurt the little cuts we had in our hands.  Then Miss Collins handed out the dinosaurs and we pushed them into the salt dough to make a fossil.  We had to be careful not push a hole in the salt dough.  After that we pinched and rolled dough to make a bone shape.  We looked at dinosaur skeletons to get ideas.  After school Miss Collins cooked them for us and made them go hard.  Next we will tag them like real scientists.  

The Discovery Room

After our Museum lesson we went exploring in the Canterbury Museum Discovery Room.  We loved it!  We were able to wander and explore different things in this room.  A big thank you to Rahel (Elshadays's Mum, Lin (Abby's Mum) and Paula (Larissa's Mum) who came on our trip to help.  

Billie, Mraz and Drake in the butterfly room

Bug drawers!

Sophie and Levi looking at the nest, the eggs, the hedgehog and rat

More investigating the nest

Looking for fossils

Learning to use the microscope

Susie with the bird display

Mraz in the sand

Our class!

John on the computer

Learning About Dinosaurs With Anthony

This week we went to the Canterbury Museum.  We went by bus and it was exciting to be going on our first school trip apart from swimming.  It was our first school trip for many of us.  

First we had a lesson in the museum with Anthony.  He taught us about dinosaurs and had dinosaur parts for us to look at and touch.  Some were real or some were casts from fossils found.  

Anthony taught us some key things about dinosaurs:

1. Dinosaurs live on land, they can't fly or swim

2. Dinosaurs have scales

3. All dinosaurs have straight legs

4. New dinosaurs have been discovered

5. Dinosaurs lay eggs

6. Some dinosaurs they have discovered has feathers

Anthony getting out the things that we could touch

Anthony telling us about how dinosaurs have straight legs

The Allosaurus replica skeleton

A reptile fossil 

The reals size of a dinosaur skull

Stegosaurus' skull.  It was huge!

A dinosaur footprint model.  Lots of hands fitted inside it!

A Wee While...

Our apologies, it has been a little while since we have updated our class blog.  

The Teachers in Room One have been busy settling the new students in who have started in Room One.   It is exciting to have so many children starting in Room One.  This term we welcome: Daisy, Rocko, Elshadaye, Noah, Billie, Abigail, Amazon, Telesia, Rahnui and we have 

Asten starting next week.

Our class at the Museum this week!