Leap Ahead Learning Preschool: Dinosaur discoveries

Your children don't only stomp and roar when they are throwing a tantrum (not that any of them EVER do), nope, they also stomp and roar when its Dinosaur week!

D is for dinosaur.

Aren't they D-cently cute!?

We had fun discovering what dinosaur we would build with these 1-10 number puzzles.

We talked about fossils and how much we learn about dinosaurs just from their remains. We dug up our own miniature ones in the sand table.

Check out these little paleontologists digging up some Tyrannosaurus Rex bones!

They worked really hard (and got a little dirty...sorry!) to get the bones out! But, they did and the dinosaur is now put together and on display in our room.

We also made our own fossil imprints to take home and tell you about all the neat things we learned about dinosaurs.

We talked about what color the dinosaurs skin may have been, and what different textures. At this center we made our own colorful dinosaurs, and added texture to them to with these rubbing and tracing stencils.

There are so many different kinds of dinosaurs! We briefly talked about some of them, and played a matching game that displayed many of them.

We also practiced our patterning, sorting, and counting skills at this center filled with over 100 miniature versions of the big guys!

Like I said, we stomped and roared like dinosaurs and we had these great puppets to play along with.

We talked about what their habitat was like and set up our own with our play mat, volcanoes, dinos, and more.

We worked on our cutting skills by chomping down with our scissors. After we followed the lines, we had our own pointy, sharp teeth cutouts.

And, we got some writing practice with these cute dinosaur shaped crayons.

Book of the week: When Dinosaurs came with everthing by Elise Broach

Very cute book!!

We also made our own vinegar and baking soda volcanoes. As always, the children went crazy watching it. We did it over, and over, and over again.

We spelled the words dig and big this week. They both have the same ending sound, and both were very applicable with our theme this week :)

Our Star of the week this week was the very radical and well dressed (the kids all said how much they like his clothes and his hair when asked what they like about Braxton....love it!)

Braxton!!