Developing Key Learning Skills – Thanks to Dinosaurs
Children either entering formal education or at an early stage of their careers in school can be helped to develop important skills thanks to dinosaurs. Many learning support providers are keen to drive a culture of development and achievement, reinforcing key learning skills that will serve the students throughout their education. Developing learning skills can form part of a coordinated plan to improve life-long learning.
The “Achievosaurs”, or as they are sometimes referred to as the “Achieveosaurs”, aims to teach children about positive ways in which their ability to learn can improved. Qualities such as being determined and staying focused on a task, being prepared to ask questions and share ideas are rewarded by permitting the child to look after one of the “Achievosaurs” – a dinosaur soft toy which represents a character that shows that key skill.
One of the “Achievosaurs” Dinosaur Soft Toy Ranges
Some of the original “Achievosaurs”.
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Soft Toy Dinosaurs
A set of soft toy dinosaurs can be used to help reinforce these key learning skills. Staff members at Everything Dinosaur, with their teaching backgrounds have assisted learning support providers by offering all sorts of innovative learning materials for use in schools and nurseries. For instance, a large number of schools use Everything Dinosaur’s soft toys to help deliver the “Achievosaurs” teaching concept. However, as manufacturers alter their product ranges, so many of the dinosaur soft toys used in the original schemes of work become unavailable. No worries, as Everything Dinosaur specialises in the supply of prehistoric animal toys and games, our team members are on hand to provide advice and to help teachers develop the “Achievosaurs” teaching concept.
Adopting the “Achievosaurs” Concept
Many schools adopt the “Achievosaurs” concept across all their classes in Early Years and Reception through into upper Key Stage 1, it often ties in with a related term topic covered by the children in Year 1 and 2 which enables them to learn about rocks, fossils and dinosaurs.
Key Learning Skills Typically Covered in the “Achievosaurs” Teaching Concept
- SOLVEOSAURUS REX – I can solve problems and improve (based on T. rex the most famous dinosaur of all)
- TRYCERATOPS – I try new things, don’t give up and work really hard (based on Triceratops, a very well known horned dinosaur with three horns)
- STICKASAURUS – I stick at tasks and persevere (based on Stegosaurus a popular, plant eating dinosaur with plates on its back)
- THINKODOCUS – I think carefully about what I learn (based on the big, plant-eating dinosaur called Diplodocus)
- SHAREOSAURUS – I share my ideas and can work well with others (based on the Spinosaurus)
To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of prehistoric animal soft toys: Soft Toy Dinosaurs.
Helping young children to develop such important skills for learning later on in life. Teachers are free to come up with their own variants and new additions, this is where our team members can help, by advising on educational matters and guiding teachers as to their choice of prehistoric animal to represent the particular skill or learning behaviour that they wish to develop with their class. After all, what five-year-old can refuse the chance to look after their very own soft toy dinosaur?