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ACTIVE SCHOOL SERIES Please follow the ‘Assembly Intructions’ when using Kitcamp. DATE: 2017-11 #I AM A DINOSAUR #IAMADINOSAUR

OVERVIEW WORKS WITH: GROUP SIZE: Get them moving! Set up the kitcamp equipment as a nest EYFS INDIVIDUAL for the dinosaur’s eggs, a volcano, a swamp, a lost island, or a cave or lair to create a backdrop to a myriad of games and ways KS1 SMALL of moving. Creating a scene for the ‘dinosaurs’ will encourage KS2 LARGE running, jumping, throwing, balancing, sliding and hopping; they’ll be practising their dinosaur moves, playing story-games SEN (endorsed) and getting active before you know it. The kit can be a base or a den, or a dinosaur with a jaggardy tail. EYFS and National Curriculum targets applicable.

INSPIRATION EXPLORATION ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Stories: Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes, some fly, some stomp, some are giants, Kitcamp Accessories: cutout panels, Mad About Dinosaurs, by Giles Andreae others tiny. Captivate the imagination with dinosaur songs and clips, look at how cardboard inserts, basin (nest), plugs, blue Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp, by Margaret Mayo dinosaurs’ bodies move . Add ‘dinosaur actions’ to rhymes and stories as the canopy (water), green canopy (swamp). Dinosaurumptus, Tony Mitton catalyst for prehistoric games and dinosaur moves. Mats (roll mats or gym mats) to mark What if a dinosaur? There’s a T Rex in Town, Ruth Symons Leave picture books open for children to mimic each dinosaur’s moves (perhaps out zones. ‘Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here come the Dinosaurs!’ by in front of a mirror). Add in percussion instruments or music that encourages Materials: cargo net, small world dinosaurs. Umansky and Sharratt stomping or gives a slow steady beat and encourage them to practise ‘The Very Dizzy Dinosaur’, by Jack Tickle, fundamental movement skills, actively working as a team without even realising. Dinosaur nest: shredded paper, tennis balls, or The Dinosaur’s Diary by Julia Donaldson - hiding eggs paper mache/frozen balloon eggs. Harness the children’s energy and expert knowledge of dinosaurs, get them to Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson - dinosaur nests. teach one another what they know by talking, questioning and using pictures and Volcano: crepe paper, newspaper rocks. Clips: toy dinosaurs. Teach specific fundamental movements and assign to a dinosaur, Dressing up: a tail to swish, card head bands, Andy’s Prehistoric Adventures Series, BBC, e.g. a pterodactyl and the one-leg balance, a raptor stalking its prey by walking capes to use as wings. The Good Dinosaur film (2015) Pixar and Disney, heel-to-toe, a dinosaur with a sore foot hopping forwards! Apps & Internet: Walking with Dinosaurs film (2013) BBC Earth, Collect verbs to describe how the dinosaurs move (lumbering, flying, stomping, I’m a dinosaur series, HooplaKidz Games and facts, gliding) and match to movements. Talk about moving at different speeds and http://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/ Music: heights (on tip toes, all fours, rolling) and provide additional context or a story to Youth Sports Trust: Movement Assessment The Dinosaur Song, video by Bernard Derriman. Johnny Cash (1976), encourage variety and sequences of movements. Tool app. Lyrics to The Dinosaur Stomp (tune: the Grand Old Duke of York), https://www.letsplaykidsmusic.com/dinosaur- Classical - In the Hall of the Mountain King, Grieg. song/

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Where do your dinosaurs live? Up and Active Dino-Romp! Protect the eggs game In a jungle with hanging plants, or a barren landscape with volcanoes? When the music plays, the children get up and active, Land-dwelling dinosaurs laid eggs, 3 – 20 at a time. Create a dinosaur habitat from Kitcamp panels around and through taking on a dinosaur movement of their choice. Move in Put a nest up in a ‘two panel high’ tree so you have to which the children-dinosaurs move, wriggle and climb. Hang material time to a steady beat, if the music gets faster they they stretch or climb on a step stool, or down low in a nest at waist height between two towers (trees) to encourage crawling, are under threat or attack and move faster too. with sloping sides. Mark a square (chalk, rope) with bending and walking on all fours. Dinosaur Statues. a gap in each corner around the nest. Two dinosaurs

ACTIVITY protect the eggs by standing on the square markings. The Lost Island of Dinosaurs Obstacle Course. Create dinosaur ‘functional movement’ cards with a The other dinosaurs have to sneak into the nest area, Make rocks from cubes, volcanoes from triangular panels, a cargo dinosaur picture, identifying the position of its arms, steal an egg, and take it behind the line before being net to wriggle under, a swamp from the green canopy to roll across, legs, heads and trunk. Try to walk like that dinosaur! tagged. a river from the blue canopy to jump over. Chalk footprints between Then teach and refine each dinosaur’s position, e.g. obstacles to show the direction or size of steps to take. Move balance like a pterodactyl (a one leg balance with a Pantomine Dinosaur. through the obstacles to collect a ‘prize egg’ from the nest and return stable standing leg, the other knee bent, arms in The Supersaurus was as long as four buses. Team up it to the den. T position, head and trunk upright), stand like a T-Rex with a leader standing and the others holding the waist Make a dinosaur nest. (arms in, elbows down, wide stance). When the music of the person in front, pantomine-horse style. Move stops, freeze in the correct position. around the landscape without bumping into obstacles. Make a dinosaur nest from a circular panel holding the basin filled Take turns to be at the front, can you co-ordinate your with shredded paper. Surround it with square panels sloping on Dinosaur circuits. movements? triangular panels. Slide up and down the sloping sides to collect or Hop from foot to foot like the Velociraptor which was return dinosaur ‘eggs’ (tennis balls). a bit like a turkey! Stand up on tip toes to full stretch Dino-mixes! Make dinosaur headwear like the T-Rex king. Hide from the predator, look for your What do you get if you cross a Triceratops with a prey (crouch behind a Kitcamp cube, then stand up, kangaroo? A Tricera-HOPS! How does this creature Make dinosaur headwear from bands of card, e.g. add three horns for searching hand to forehead). Twist and spin on the spot move? Create dino-mixes by rolling 2 dice (one with a triceratops, a card strip with triangular plates for a Stegosaurus. Clip like a deinosuchus. Do T-Rex push-ups (elbows always six dinosaurs, the other six animals). Link the moves of on a dinosaur tail. Don the headgear and move like your dinosaur. in) on the kit. the two creatures (monkey-diplodocus) in a sequence. Extension: Hatch! Tail-Swishing! Can they make a dinosaur from the kitcamp panels? Will it have a Make cubes with cutout panels on the top and at least T-Rex had muscles inside his big thick tail. Play a game long tail, an enormous jaw? What else does it need to make it life- 2 of the sides. Be a baby dinosaur: curl into a ball inside of hit the rock with the tail using a soft ball and a tail like? the cube, stretch limb by limb, reach, straighten and for a bat (made by stuffing tights with newspaper!). Use move in a limited space to hatch out of the egg. circular panel inserts as targets.