Once they were sure the dinosaurs were not in the classroom, the children started their detective work to try and find out what had happened. Together they shared their ideas about how they thought the dinosaurs might have escaped. They then discussed where they thought they might have gone and then formulated a plan about what to do about it! 

The children decided that we should let everyone know about the dinosaurs and to do this they made some brilliant wanted posters. The children enthusiastically wrote a sentence for their poster and added a drawing, so people knew what they looked like – great thinking from Form 1! The children were very excited to post these around the school and tell everyone we met about the cheeky dinosaurs and what to do if they found them.

On Tuesday, the children learnt about Remembrance day. The Pre-Prep gathered together for a two-minute silence and learnt that it is a special time to say thank you to the brave people who helped keep us safe a long time ago and today. The children made their own poppies using card and lollysticks, and in the afternoon they made poppy field pictures, using pastels and finger painting. They also enjoyed decorating a poppy biscuit, using red icing and raisins.

In maths this week, the children have continued to learn about number bonds to 10. On Wednesday, the children learnt how this can be represented in a ‘part, part, whole’ model. They used the Numicon and their fingers to find all the different ways they could make 10 and then recorded this in their maths book. Their confidence to think about number composition is growing and their understanding of how numbers fit together is deepening – well done Form 1!

Our topic this week has been hibernation and the children have been fascinated to learn all about the different types of hibernation that animals can enter into. We learnt that some animals sleep for the entire winter in a cosy nest or cave, some animals sleep in short bursts, waking up every now and then to eat the food they have stored for the winter and some animals go into an extremely deep sleep where they hardly even move. They become very cold and their heart rate is extremely slow. The children made little flap books about this, drawing the different places animals hibernate and writing a sentence to accompany it. In art this week, the children have enjoyed making their very own clay hedgehogs. They carefully shaped their clay to create the hedgehog's nose and body, adding eyes using the clay tools. They then collect sticks from outside and cut them to size, to create spikes for their hedgehog. They look great and the children may make little cosy nests for them to hibernate next week.

The children were very excited on Thursday when Miss Leagas showed them a photograph she had taken outside the doctor's surgery. Miss Leagas explained she had spotted one of our dinosaurs when she was visiting the doctors! The dinosaur had an injured arm and must have taken himself off to see the doctor! Thankfully, Miss Leagas had brought him back to Form 1, just as the children's posters had instructed her to do. Form 1 hopes the other dinosaurs turn up soon.