Rupert the Dinosaur Comes to Tacolneston

On Monday 31st March we had two important visitors to our school.  Their names were Doug Vallgren and Karl Newson.  Doug is the author of Rupert the Dinosaur and Karl is the illustrator.

 First Doug told us a bit about why he wrote the book and then he read it to us.  He told us about how animals we have today evolved from dinosaur species. 

 Karl showed us how he created the pictures for the book and explained how much time it took to do each illustration. 

 We had a go at drawing our own dinosaurs which were brilliant!!

We had a go at mixing up 2 different animals and created a cird which was a cat mixed with a bird. 

 After school we had the chance to purchase a signed copy Rupert the Dinosaur.

We had a lovely afternoon and would like to thank Doug and Karl for coming in to see us. We are looking forward to the next book due out later in the year.

Look out for Rupert the Dinosaur

www.karlnewson.co.uk

Welcome to the Rockin' Robins Class

Welcome to the Robins' class blog. We have been keeping a photo album of everything we have done so far this year but thought we would like to our fantastic work with the rest of the world.

So........... may the blogging begin!!

Here are some snaps of previous projects to get us started.

Autumn Term

 During our Victorian Transport topic we brought our bikes to school to learn about how they work.

We had some fun measuring workshops after reading Jim and the Beanstalk in our Reading Cafe.

We made our own tape measures.

Christmas 2013

We designed and made our own Nativity gloves to tell the Christmas story.

Thank you to all those who came in to help us.

Our class trip to Strangers' Hall in Norwich to find out about a Victorian Christmas.

We then had our own Victorian Christmas Craft day back at school.

Again we had a team of dedicated volunteers - thank you! 

Spring 

We had a great time learning about pirates. We designed and made our own pirate ships with working winches to drop the anchor.

We made toast in our fractions workshop during open morning.

And finally........

Making dragon sculptures in our latest topic.

If you like what you see, make sure sure check out our future posts.