Animal footprints in the classroom

Today the children were excited to find some animal footprints in our role-play 'cave'. They used impressive detective skills to work out what animals might have been to visit our classroom. They used what they knew to develop their ideas and then we used Google to confirm our suspicions. We found that we had been visited by a polar bear, an organutan, a panda and an elephant! The children struggled to identify the final footprint and decided that it reminded them most of either a dinosaur or a chicken. From this they decided it might be an animal that is extinct and one that might be feathered. Our research brought us to the Dodo!