Dinosaurs got everyone excited this week! These sweet kiddos bring a smile when they come in the room and leave us smiling when they walk out the door. :)
This week, we talked all about dinosaurs. We made our own hand print stegosauruses (while practicing writing our names), colored dinosaurs, traced dinosaurs, stomped like dinosaurs, played with dinosaurs, dug for dinosaurs, read books about dinosaurs, and more! We had fun with the dinosaur footprints that showed up in our room and the T-Rex that visited our classroom! We even enjoyed going on a dinosaur egg hunt outside!
In our centers, we worked on numbers quite a bit this week! We did a fun dinosaur tracing "write the room" number search, worked on shapes by making shape dinosaurs (that went in portfolios) and building dinosaurs out of magnet tiles, and learned how to do splatter painting by making dinosaur eggs. We also continued to work on cutting this week and did our first cutting sample to go in portfolios. To go along with our week of focusing on numbers, we measured dinosaur bones with counting cubes and practiced number recognition with stegosaurus spikes. We also practiced writing numbers, letters, and shapes in sand while pretending to dig for dinosaur fossils. To go with letter H, we practiced writing the letter in our "Hadrosaurus" poem that got added to poetry folders!
We talked about how dinosaurs lived long ago on the earth and that we can only know about them through fossils. We also discussed how God made the dinosaurs long, long ago. This was a great addition to finishing up our month-long focus on creation!
To add to our fun, we enjoyed a special visit from the Lafayette Township Fire Department! We will be doing some more fire safety activities after fall break, but they came ahead this week! We so much appreciate them taking the time to teach these sweet kiddos about how to be safe in the case of a fire. We even got to climb up into their truck and see it firsthand!
Mrs. Andrea and I continue to have fun watching all of our sweet friends interact with one another and continue to develop friendships. Every week, we see more hugs and smile as they play together more. This week, I was also struck by how far many of the students have already come. We are so proud of this sweet class!
This week, see if your child can...
1. Tell you anything about dinosaurs or fossils.
2. Recite September's Bible verse with the motions (Genesis 1:31) or tell you about everything God made!
3. Teach you the actions to our "Hadrosaurus" poem!
4. Help you make an escape plan in case of a fire and tell you one fire safety tip they learned.
5. Write all of the letters and numbers we have done so far... Here is a picture below of the review sheet we worked on this week with all of our skills.
Splatter painting dinosaur eggs!
Letter H experts!
We saved our shape dinosaurs for portfolios.
We loved getting creative with Mrs. Andrea's oil pastels!
Cutting practice and hand print stegosaurus!
We also saved both of these for portfolios.
Tracing dinos and making dinosaur tracks!
We loved measuring dinosaur
bones with Mrs. Andrea!
We are such hard workers!
We attempted making dinosaurs out of pretzels. :)
This girl can build anything!
Quite the exciting visitor!
We were such great listeners to the fire fighters.
Giving high fives!
What a fun way to end our week!
