Foreman uses unique concepts to bring to life truth about man's destruction of the Earth through industrail development. In the story a man looks into the sky and sees a shining star. He wishes to go and visit this new world in hope to find lushus landscapes willed with wonderful new life forms. This is a book that fearlessly exposes the hitherto unexposed connections between rubbish, the endless tons of domestic and commercial waste that we produce, and dinosaurs. If they are finding the part part whole difficult try using counting objects instead or carry on reinforcing the tens frame method from yesterday. There are many themes to explore in this book, but the striking theme is the environment and what people are doing to it. I read this book with a year two class and looked through the different themes and what the children thought. It was really interesting to see what they came out with.

The book is very fun and beautifully illustrated and the children in my class where fascinated by the dinosaurs! It is nice to see children so engaged and interested in our planet and this book was a key tool for getting the children talking about the environment and it gave me lots of ideas of lessons I could do with children. Hello! We have written a introduction letter to explain the format of the blog and to try and help you navigate it. Please do take the time to read through this before looking at the blog as we hope that it will help make it easier to navigate what is clearly a low of new information!Watch the whole story now from beginning to end, ready for some more work about this book next week.

You will also need 2 different types of small counting objects that you have lots of (that will be small enough to fit in the tens frame). Suggestions: 2 types of pasta, sweets, buttons, pom poms etc (be creative!!)Extension Introduce compass directions, London is SE, Bristol SW etc. Discuss whether the places you are plotting are urban or rural. Discuss the difference. So why have I kept it? 1) It's about dinosaurs, and I have a nice collection of dinosaur books for the children (grandchildren now, of course). 2) It's colourful and has simple pictures that children like. 3) It has a wonderful picture on the front of huge dinosaurs crushing cars. Talk to a member of staff at the auditorium entrance if you have a disability that means you can’t queue, or you need extra time to take your seat. They can arrange priority entry for you as soon as the doors open. The Ashcroft Arts Centre is named after Dame Peggy Ashcroft and was opened by Dame Peggy in 1989, after being refurbished from its original use as a school. Since 2014 the arts centre has been operated by Hampshire Cultural Trust. Links The book’s strong underlying environmental message is portrayed sensitively about a greedy entrepreneur, who tries to destroy Earth and includes the charming detail of dinosaurs rising up to protect it against him.