Dinosaur drawing which connected maths, reading, and our inquiry.

Miss Pedersen gave us each a copy of a tyrannosaurus rex

with a grid drawn on it. We talked about this grid and the

letters and numbers written down the side. We soon

discovered that this grid and these coordinates would

help us draw our dinosaur accurately.

The first job was to draw a grid, like the one on our

piece of paper, on the concrete with chalk. Our grid was

6 metres long and 6 metres wide. Each square in our

grid measured 3 metres by 3 metres.

We drew a dinosaur…

For reading last week, the kakariki group and Miss Pedersen read a story about a class of children who drew a giant dinosaur outside on the concrete. We enjoyed the story so much that we decided to draw a dinosaur of our own!

Here’s what we did:

We were then buddied up with someone else in our

group and Miss Pedersen gave us a part of the

dinosaurs body for us to focus on. This was important

because even though it was a group activity, it would

have been hard to have 9 people trying to draw the same

thing!

Then, we got to work!

Sometimes, we worked together…

And other times, we worked independently.

Miss Pedersen even got stuck in!

We used a lot of chalk and got quite dirty!

Our dinosaur finally started to take shape!

It even tried to eat us!

After  lots of colouring, our dinosaur was finally finished

We were really happy and proud of our creation.                                      

So was Miss Pedersen!