Dinosaurs continued....3 day class

 We had a wonderful time learning about more dinosaurs  - Triceratops, T-Rex, Apatosaurus, Velociraptor and more.  We pretended to be paleontologists as we uncovered bones in sand trays! We used sifters and brushes to discover the bones.  During center time we made dinosaur stew by counting the items on recipe cards and adding the ingredients to the pot!  Items included eggs, fossils, bones, dinosaurs, and leaves.  We answered questions about the stories we read in class! We signed in to which dinosaur we liked the best then compared the numbers! In addition, we went on a dinosaur letter hunt! (goals: counting, number recognition, following directions, sensory, participating as a member of a group, recognizing letters, answering questions)

The hippos had fun predicting how many of our shoes would fit inside the footprint of a T-Rex.  We then took our shoes off and put them inside a taped T-Rex footprint and counted them.  Our letter of the week was M for mouse and Mila.  After reading If The Dinosaurs Came Back we answered this question in our journals.  At large group time, we sorted dinosaurs into 3 groups- herbivores, carnivores and omnivores!  We also sorted them by how many feet they had and how big they were. During center time, we built dinosaurs with plastic bones, discovered an apatosaurus using water colors, sorted dinosaurs, patterned dinosaurs, used dinosaur stencils, painted using dinosaur feet, cut out a T-Rex tooth, gave a T-Rex teeth using clothespins, decorated a triceratops, excavated dinosaur bones, used ice pics to get dinosaurs out of ice, made our own dinosaur skeleton with q-tips, and  put a variety of dinosaur puzzles together.  Everyone enjoyed watching a volcano erupt! Using baking soda, vinegar and red food coloring, we simulated a volcano erupting!  We also learned to get orange lava, we mixed red and yellow food coloring! Since we had so much fun, we did the experiment over and over again with using red, yellow, blue and green food coloring. (goals: sorting, patterning, fine motor, listening behaviors, making decisions independently)

During our gross motor time we pretended to be different dinosaurs.  We then did the actions to the Dino Hokey Pokey song!  We were different dinosaurs as we walked the hallway going to our specials and the bathroom! (gross motor, following directions) During our 2nd steps lesson, we learned about different ways to play with others. We can share, we can make a trade and we can play together. We also talked about using a timer to take turns. Our character word this month is PATIENCE. We read a book about having to wait and what we can do while we are waiting.

Next week:
Rocks!

Books We Read:
If The Dinosaurs Came Back

How Do Dinosuars say, "I'm Mad?"

Dinosaurs Don't Eat Their Classmates

Waiting is Hard

Storybot videos about T-Rex, Apatosaurus, Velociraptors, Triceratops, Stegosaurus 

Questions to Ask:
1. What does a paleontologist do? (finds fossils)

2. What is your favorite dinosaur?

3. How many horns does a triceratops have? (3)

4. What did you learn about dinosaurs?

5. Do carnivores eat meat or plants? (meat)

6. Do herbivores eat meat or plants? (plants)

Reminders:

3/17-3/21 Spring Break

4/14 and 4/16 parent teacher conferences

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

We decorated triceratops using a variety of materials.

We dug for dinosaur bones and placed them on the number line.

We made dinosaurs using q-tips.

The students love creating at the writing center.

It was fun to make dinosaurs using these plastic bones.

We found lots of letters on our volcano sheet.
We hunted for these letters in the hallway.

The hippos counted backwards before I added the vinegar to make 
our volcano erupt!!

We watercolored a sheet of paper and discovered an apatosaurus.

The hippos gave teeth to the T-rex
using clothespins.

"If the dinosaurs came back they would......"
Our journal entry.

We practiced our cutting skills by cutting
out the T-rex tooth.

Everyone had a turn sorting the dinosaurs
by what they ate-plants, meat or both plants and meat.

We sang a fun song in music using wooden sticks.

We sequenced dinosaur numbers at the easel.

The students used sifters and brushes to find the dinosaur bones.

We matched the skeleton to the correct dinosaur.

Here we counted the items on out card and added them to our 
dinosaur stew. 

We used tangram blocks to make dinosaurs.

We finished our stegosaurus by adding legs, spikes, a tail,
sun, water, and trees.

Sorting and weighing dinosaurs.