Dino discoveries

Dinosaur week is always a favorite week at school! And, after you see all that we learned and did, you will most definitely agree! We started out the week by "digging" for dinosaur bones with out brushes on our white paper. And, look what fun bones we discovered after we added a little watercolor!

We talked about fossils this week, and how they have taught us all that we know about the dinosaurs. We dug for some in the sand table, and tried to name that dinosaur.

In dug in the sand, and in clay! And, just like the little paleontologists we were this week, we tried to assemble the bones together to see just what dinosaurs we found!

For our math center, we created 3 different dinosaurs by matching our color coordinated numbers 1 through 10. 

We also practiced our letter formations with these wooden "fossil" letters. We are working on our long and short, straight and curvy lines.

These dinosaurs below were a bit easier to put together than our fossils. We simply had to match our uppercase alphabet letter to its lowercase counterpart. Done and done! 

We talked about how some dinosaurs were carnivores, some were herbivores, and some were omnivores. They were big and small, and we used our dinosaurs at this center to stomp out our letter outlines. Stomp! Stomp!

We practiced our cutting skills this week by cutting our straight lines just like a dinosaurs long tail, our pointed lines just like a dinosaurs sharp teeth, and curvy lines just like a dinosaurs plates on its back.

We talked about how we don't know for sure what color and textures a dinosaurs skin were, so we designed our own creations! 

We graphed some dinosaurs according to what color we rolled on our colored die. We would add a sticker to the matching colored column until one color was full (and then continued to add them until the whole paper was full because it was just so much fun!).

Dino matching game!

For dramatic play we had a playing mat with lots of dinosaurs and volcanoes and trees. I just love watching creative minds at work. Check out Kendrick's action shot as his volcano explodes!

And, just because making volcanoes explode is fun, we made our own baking soda and vinegar volcanoes. Check out their reaction...love these little faces!!

We had a rip "roaring" week!