Monday, February 27, 2012

Was tyrannosaurus Rex Mean cont.

After our conversation the previous day about whether T-Rex was mean I pulled out some key statements that I wanted the children to look at and comment on.

If you eat meat you are mean.
The world was a shop and the animals were the food.
They’re not mean, they just needed food.
He is mean because h kills other dinosaurs to take to his home for his babies.

Molly: They really do  need to eat food or they’ll die. So he’s not mean.
Quinn: I disagree because T-Rex may end up being the only dinosaur left. (Because he ate all the others)
Alicya: They had to kill the other dinosaurs or they’d die and their families would miss them.
Harriet: They needed it, they’re not mean, if they didn’t they would die.
Gabriella: It would die if it didn’t have food.
Miss Bell: So what you are saying is that T-Rex needed meat and the meat was the other dinosaurs. He wasn’t mean because he had to eat meat or he would die. So could T-Rex be kind?
Alicya: He could ask the plant eaters if they wanted meat.
Quinn: People think they are mean because they look scary, that doesn’t make sense. If they were a plant eater we wouldn’t be scared.
Alicya: They would frighten the little dinosaur away because he is so big.
At his point I asked Thomas to read out his statement about T-Rex taking food to his babies.
Ashtyn: He takes meat to his babies, he cares for them.
Alicya: They are nice to baby dinosaurs, if they are alone and they might look after them.
Molly: They’re trying to make their babies grow, so they grow into big
dinosaurs so that they can feed their own babies.
Ashtyn: It’s not nice to call him mean because we eat meat and we’re not mean.
Matt: Dinosaurs aren’t mean because if they don’t eat meat they’ll die and get eaten by other dinosaurs.

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