The Night Zookeeper visits 5/4 Deers!

We were very lucky today, as we were visited by Paul the night zookeeper.

 

Paul explained to us what his job was, the types of animals he looked after and allowed us to skype his boss.

He set us a challenge to create an animal for the night zoo, with a red nose day/comic relief theme!



We learnt about the many animals that live in the night zoo - including the monkeys that play tennis with each other and florence the flamingo that is kind to every animal she meets.






Paul and the other night zookeepers have teleporting torches, and many of the animals within the night zoo include alliteration.

The morning included animal stretches, skyping, completing some of the night zoo keeper challenges (using night zoo keeper app), planning our own animal to be included in the zoo, creating our own animal and finally uploading it to www.nightzookeeper.com using our own individual username and password.

  





           

 At the end of the day we were able to view our complete zoo, full of our animals, that have been allowed in!

Spectacular dinosaur dioramas!

In class, this term, we have been making moving, dinosaur dioramas.

Using a shoe box, coloured pencils and pens, card, paper and creativeness we have made dioramas that explain the two main theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

1. A series of volcanoes erupting

2. A meteor colliding with earth

Watch the videos and look at the pictures to see how we made these amazing dioramas!

Ellie:






Poppy:





Alfie:





Lauren:

 

 

Our latest hall display!

Check out our latest hall display on dinosaurs!

Let us know what you think of our meteor sunset paintings - just leave a comment below!

Our project

Don't forget to check http://54deers.moonfruit.com/ for some websites about dinosaurs!

Check out our descriptive dinosaur writing!

After watching a clip from Jurassic Park we decided we would write about the experience Dr Grant had - seeing a brachiosaurus for the first time! Let us know what you think!

Please click on the pictures to get a larger image of the writing.

By Amber:

 By Alfie:

By Emily F: 

 By Evie:

By Isobel:

By Poppy:

By Ben:

By Lylie:

Dinosaur branching databases

Using Textease branch, we have been creating branching databases.

A branching database is used to sort and classify data using yes and no answers.

Using a branching database is  like playing "20 questions". You are asked a series of questions, each of which must be answered yes or no. Finally, only one of the choices matches your answers and the object is identified.

After searching and collecting information on 8 - 12 dinosaurs, we have to think of an opening question, with a yes or no answer, that would split our dinosaurs. (Please click the pictures to get a larger image).

By Nathan and Olivia B

Then we had to think of questions to split our remaining dinosaurs.

By Amber, Lucy and Charlie

By Codie and Emily N

By Hnery and Emily F

By Joseph and Kacey

By Lylie and Bradley

Our trip to London and the Natural History Museum

On Monday we travelled to London and the Natural History Museum to learn more about our topic this term, dinosaurs.

As well as going to the museum, we were treated to a tour of the city, thanks to our bus driver.

When we arrived at the museum we met Dippy, the diplodocus in the entrance.

We also examined dinosaur skeletons, fossils, eggs, footprints, claws and horns.

We even met a moving, life-size, Tyrannosaurus Rex!

As our day at the museum came to an end we were lucky enough to use our courtesy card money, plus cake sale money, to buy ourselves something from the gift shop!
















We really enjoyed our day in London.