We are Palaeontologists!

This week we got to visit the Canterbury museum. We had lots of fun learning about dinosaurs with Anthony.

We learnt lots of cool things like...

A T-Rex only has two claws on each hand.

Did you know a dinosaur needs to....

have scaly skin

lay eggs

have straight legs

live on the land

That means a pterodactyl is not a dinosaur. It is a flying lizard!

It took some convincing for us to believe that.  

Anthony was great at answering our questions. 

We got to look at some fossils. Some were real and some were copies.

Daisy was amazed as to how big a T-Rex tooth is. 

 

We even got to hold a fossilised dinosaur poo!

T14 loved the Allosaurus...

and we had fun trying to walk with bent legs. Dinosaurs legs are straight because of a hole in their hip bones so their legs work like ours. Crocodiles have bent legs so they are reptiles, not dinosaurs.

 We loved playing in the gardens at lunchtime.

It was a great day. Thank you to all the wonderful parent helpers who came with us.