Dinosaurs

It's been one "dinomite" week this week as we've been studying dinosaurs!  We've gotten to dance like dinosaurs, melt and hammer icy dinosaur eggs, and do a variety of crafts and activities about these amazing animals as well.  It's been a lot of fun!  Hope you enjoy all our pics from this fun-filled theme. :)

Dinosaur Stomp Dance Video

Letter B Song from ABC Mouse

Spell PINK Song

Cooper was able to share about his experiences last week with Gumby.

We used stickers to place on our ten frames.  Each ten frame had a different number, so kiddos put that number of stickers on the ten frame to show it's value.  It was pretty challenging, since we still have some kiddos who are working on counting to 10 and some who still don't know all numbers 1-10, but we're making progress! :)

Mrs. Susie painted hands for a little dinosaur craft while kiddos used color words to color a dinosaur picture.  They had to match the write color word with the right shapes in the picture.

Our dinosaur hands turned out like this.  :)  Check them out in the hall!

 Look at these great fine motor skills to make the letter B with Q-tips!

 

 Tracing our numbers 1-9 that we've covered so far.  Those pencil grips have come so far!

 

 Using our dotters to find all the letter B's.

 We drew a line to connect our numbers to the dice we found in the picture.

 Such hard workers at our independent stations!

 Using our paint dotters to find the sight word "and" on our papers.

We read our books and found our color words to help us know what color to color each picture.

 

We "read" our sentences that used our sight word of the week "and".  Then, we circled the word "and" everytime we saw it in the sentence.  We were using context/picture clues to figure out what the sentences say. ;)

We did a coloring and cutting sample with our dinosaur pictures.  We're doing really well with cutting straight lines, but we're still working on curving and jagged lines.

 Mrs. Susie helped us measure our dinosaur bones on our paper with cubes.

  

 We used a variety of shapes to create our own dinosaurs.

 They turned out so cute, and I love how creative they chose to be.  No two dinosaurs turned out the same, and they even chose creative little names for their dinos too!

Look for these in the hallway as well.

 I created dinosaur eggs as our science experiment this week by putting a small plastic dinosaur in a balloon, filling it up with water and then freezing it overnight.

 We used warm water with droppers to help them melt, but some of them were really slow to melt still.

 Since they were taking a little longer to thaw out, we decided to use toy hammers and little golf tees to help speed up the process. 

 Finally, one broke, and we saw the little dinosaur inside!

We shared all of our letter B items during Show and Tell, and then stood on the ten frame to show how many we had.

 We had 1 Batman cape.

 We had 1 book.

 

 We had 1 Belle and 1 Beast.

 We had 1 Bentlee. :)

 We had 1 bridge.

 We had 1 Brachiosaurus.

 We had 1 baby doll.

 We had 1 bracelet and 1 set of binoculars.

 We had 1 Barbie.

We had 1 Bumblee transformer.

We had 1 bucket and 1 blue ball.

Spending some time in the MIM room.

Celebrating Finnley's birthday this week!

Playtime in class with friends.

Exploring magnets...

Putting on puppet shows...

,,,and reading books with friends.

It's time to dance to the Dinosaur Stomp video!

Stories with Mrs. Susie at the end of the day.

Playtime outside with friends.

Sneaking in a few quick pictures on Picture Day before we get too messy. :)

Who are those crazy teachers with those crazy kids??

We just love these little kiddos.  So blessed. :)