Dinosaurs!

 

This week was Dinosaurs Week

ROAR!!!!

 

These were our silly dinosaurs.  We made our polka dot dinosaurs and the kids had to tell us one thing they knew about dinosaurs. I have to stay, my kiddos are pretty smart.  They knew that dinosaurs lived a long time ago, there were dinosaurs with spikes, long necks, long tails and they ate plants and/or meat.

 

 

 

My favorite project was our marble painting volcanoes! 

We added glitter to our volcanoes and they turned out so cute.

 



 

We started our FLAT STANLEY display.  So far our Flat Stanleys have returned from PA, New Jersey, Arizona and an airplane ride from Florida to California.  I can't wait when more come back and we can make a big display!

 



 

One of our math projects this week was to add spikes to our Stegosaurus and then count the spikes and write the number.  We are working hard on writing our numbers, which we are also practicing on our circle calendar in the picture you will see below this one!

 

 

 

 We read a silly story called Dinosaurs Love Underpants and it explains why the dinosaurs are extinct and it's because they loved underpants!  The kids LOVED it! and giggled every time Miss Cindy said underpants. 

 

We will finish our project next week but the kids got to watercolor a girl or boy in their underpants!  So silly :)

 

 

 

This dino sensory tub was a big hit!...I put in sand, blue pebbles for the water,

rocks and big and little dinosaurs.

 

 

We learned the dinosaurs hatch from eggs! So we put some easter eggs and little dinosaurs in our blue sensory tub...it was a great fine motor activity for the kids!

 

 

We explored and examined dinosaur bones (from a dinosaur puzzle)

in our wood shavings sensory tub.

 



 

ROAR!!!!

 



 

We even explored in dark brown sugar which hardened over the week and became like little rocks which was really neat.  We added big and little dinosaurs and our wooden tree blocks for stumps.

 



 

We even painted with our little dinosaurs to make dinosaur tracks.

 

 

We painted our eggs and then we cut them open and added a little dino inside! 

 It's such a cute hatching dinosaur baby.

 

 

It was hard to get a photo of our dinosaur cave, but this was one of our favorite activities.  Our dress up center was transformed!  We had dinosaur hats, wooden blocks and big dinosaurs to play with.

 

 

We use our number charts to count out our dinosaurs from 1-9.

 

 

We even cut and sorted the life cycle of a dinosaur as one of our science cetners.

 

 

I even drew a dinosaur skeleton and the kids painted over it with watercolors and the skeleton appeared!

 

 

We had such a great week learned all about dinosaurs! 

 

Next week is St. Patrick's Week :)

 

Danielle