Tyrannosaurus Drip

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I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him). It related brilliant to our topic in science which was what animals eat. This story emphasises the herbivore & carnivore descriptions. We had amazing questioning to do with this. This was the first of my books that David Roberts illustrated, and we had a memorable launch in the Natural History Museum, presided over by a gigantic dinosaur skeleton. Get three bowls or trays and get your child to put all the small dinosaurs in one bowl. the medium ones in another and the large ones in another.

We turned the narrative poem (The Spider and the Fly) into a playscript, by setting it out correctly and adding detailed stage directions. We then acted them out in assembly, for Years 5 and 6. Great hub and great choice of book. Even if I didn't read it yet, I remember that when I was a teacher, the young children had quite a fascination with those big animals! And you are right... reading gives the opportunity to ask questions to children and to engage them further! Interesting story to use in a class. Would be fun to work on in a playful way with children, as well as a good discussion for themes of family, friends, fitting in and getting along. If you would like to learn more about dinosaurs there are loads of great resources online which are child friendly and fee. Try the following:Our suspicions that a dinosaur was on the school premises was confirmed when Miss Cochrane showed us a picture of a T-rex outside school! Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-07-02 01:02:17 Associated-names Roberts, David, 1970- Boxid IA1847204 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Try use different voices and accents for the different characters– this is fun for them but will also help them to understand which character is speaking.

urn:lcp:tyrannosaurusdri0000dona:epub:1acba4ff-a3e5-48d7-9040-a267fc36a5ff Foldoutcount 0 Identifier tyrannosaurusdri0000dona Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t92897g5n Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780330532532 Although Tyrannosaurus Drip is another good work by Julia Donaldson I found that it didn't quite reach the same level as some of her other picture books. It's probably because she's written some fantastic prose in her other picture books, like The Highway Rat, that I found the mechanics of the prose a little disjointed at times. An example of this is the songs that either dinosaur family sing in the beginning of the book doesn't really continue or evolve through to the end - it's sort of left behind as an idea as the story moves along.Using the pictures in the book or model dinosaurs children could tell the story in their own words. Watch a video Watch Julia Donaldson and her husband Malcolm singing a song about Tyrannosaurus Drip here Things to make and do Play the story Assign everyone a role as one of the characters. See if your children can act out the story from memory. If not read a bit at a time and then act it out. The Big Question How important is it to fit in? Big Questions I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs.