Dinosaurs

We spent the week reading stories about dinosaurs, hearing songs about dinosaurs, making dinosaur puzzles, making dinosaur fossils, and playing with dinosaurs!  One song the kids enjoyed moving to was The Dinosaur Dance.  Some of the books we heard include Curious George and the Dinosaur Discovery, Bones, Bones,Bones, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Daniel's Dinosaurs, and The Dinosaur Egg Mystery.  We had fun naming the dinosaurs and discussing "meat eaters" and "plant eaters".  We traced our feet and turned them into dinosaur footprints and we named our dinosaur!! We also used play dough to make dinosaur fossils!

The kids are building some complicated designs!

Creating word puzzles.

Housekeeping Center is always a favorite activity!

Our dinosaur sand play.

Christy Piepkorn had the idea to create these beautiful Valentine projects.  Thanks to Christy for organizing and creating the whole thing!!  The kids painted the canvas during our Valentine Party last week.  What a wonderful keepsake!

After snack, we had lots of dinosaur books for the kids to look through!

 Before reading any books, the kids told me what they already knew about dinosaurs on Tuesday.  I listed their ideas on the white board!

William was our Maple Leaf of the Week.  He sent in these delicious, beautiful, homemade dinosaur cookies for a special snack.  Thanks William, they were sooooo good!!

Creating dinosaur fossils with play dough!

A special highlight of the week was meeting William's dog Chief.  He did tricks for us and we all got to pet him! We also watched him chase a ball!

William and his Dad told us Chief is a Golden Retriever puppy who is 14 weeks old.  We let him run around our classroom but he kept wanting to go into the kitchen!!  We thought that was so funny!!  We loved having him visit!

Thank you William for helping make our week so very special!!