Plateosaurus the Gentle Giant

Date: 17^th June 2014

Day: Tuesday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm      

Class: Pomegranate      

Theme: Walking with Dinosaur

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Plateosaurus the Gentle Giant

Dinosaur in Focus introduced this dinosaur. We didn’t get to cover it when we studied about Brachiosaurus. Therefore, we just briefly went through some facts about this gentle giant.

The facts about Plateosaurus:

-          Its name means flat lizard

-          It lives during the Late Triassic period

-          It feeds on plants

-          It’s one of the first large plant eaters

-          They lived in herds

-          It has a long neck with a robust legs and powerful back legs.

Teacher: Do you still remember which dinosaur has a long neck?

Children: Brachiosaurus.

Teacher: Good. What about powerful legs?

Kwan Ming: T-Rex.

By observing the Plateosaurus from the book, the children could tell me that this dinosaur walks on two legs instead of four. Besides that, some of them even remember and tell me that Brachiosaurus walked on four legs.

Reading – Keeping Up to Date (1000 sentences of Today’s English) by Scott Ballantyne

-          1. Making Friends

-          2. Going Places

-          3. Around Town

-          4. At Home