Dear Parents,
The children have made some amazing discoveries of fossils in our
sandpit this week! They have gathered their paleontology tools and dug to
discover T-Rex teeth, Raptor claws and unidentified bone fragments. This led to
some wonderful conversations about fossils in the classroom
and creations of their own fossils using salt dough, dinosaurs and
shells. Come and have a look!
You can dig to find fossils - Jake
They are called paleantolofish - Oscar
They are the people that put the bones together and put them in
the museum - Sylas
A dinosaur fossil would be 39809010019 big! - David
When people are alive the dinosaurs turned into fossil - William
Fossils are bones of the dinosaur - Sylas
When the dinosaur was alive the skin went to dinosaur heaven and
the bones went underground - Stefan
The fossils turned into rocks - Johnny
We have also spent some time sharing our worries. Mrs
McKenzie shared a story about a boy called Sam who had some worries. His
grandma kindly gave him a worry doll at night to tell all his
worries to before sleeping. This worked beautifully as it meant he got all his
worries offloaded so he could have a good nights sleep. However, then Sam
started worrying that his worry doll wouldn't be able to sleep as it would be
too burdened with all his worries. So Sam made a worry doll for his
worry doll! We discussed how we all have things we worry about and
decided that talking about them helps us feel better. Often there is an
easy solution to fixing a worry. The children did special illustrations of
their worries in their illustration books and shared them with a staff member.
Johnny brought in some magnets for Show and Tell this week, which
got the class very excited. We gathered all the magnets we could find in the
ELC for the Edgerley children to play with. They have made some interesting and
magical discoveries!
Look - it falled over because it's not the right one (magnet) -
Sylas said pushing one end of a magnet towards another that was standing.
It's magic. I can push it away - Oscar
It wont pick it up. It's not the right metal - Varish
Best wishes,
Emma, Mel and Ty
