Dino-riffic!

So glad that everyone was able to "stomp" through the snow this week and join in our journey back to prehistoric times.  Dinosaurs are one of my favorite units because the kids enjoy it so much....even the girls.  We were even able to hatch our own dinosaur in each of the classes.

We put the dinosaur egg in some warm water on the first preschool day...........

And the next preschool day he looked like this!  This was a really fun activity.  I bought them at Lakeshore Learning for just a couple of dollars and the eggs break apart just like a chicken would hatch.  It continues to grow even a bit more after it completely hatches out of the egg.

We worked on the letters S and T this week.  For S we made slithery snakes out of playdough that would say "ssssssss" as they children formed them into an S.  And for T we made triangles out of toothpicks. 

The children were able to search for fossils.  We had our sieve shovels that they dug up the dinosaurs bones with, and then they were able to examine them and clean them with their brushes.  

We talked about what colors we thought the dinosaurs may have been.  We also used some different textures and did dinosaur rubbings to make our dinosaur skin.

The children made buildings and such for the dinosaurs to tromp on!

We practiced holding our scissors correctly this week.  We did this by cutting zigzag lines, which were our dinosaurs sharp teeth, and singing this song as we did so:

(To the tune of London Bridge)

Keep your thumb up when you cut

When you cut, when you cut

Keep your thumb up when you cut

And squeeze the blades together.

Dinosaur puzzles that helped us sequence our numbers from 1-10

We also talked about volcanoes this week and why they erupt.  We used baking soda and vinegar for our eruptions. 

We have started practing our program and the kids are doing great!  Can't wait for you all to see it!

We are also doing our assessments at this time.  I will have some paperwork for each parent to see how your children are doing by the Christmas break!

Dinosaur Song

                                                        (To the tune of I'm a little tea pot)

I'm a mean old dinosaur

Big and tall

Here is my tail

And here is my claw

When I get all hungry

I just growl

Watch out guys, I'm on the prowl!