Welcome to a new week of exploring “Jurassic Park: Dinosaurs and the Prehistoric World!”
This week, we dug deeper into the world of dinosaurs and read many stories, including “The Days of Dinosaurs,” “When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth,” “Whose Dinosaur Bones Are Those?,” “Dinosaurs,” and more, through which our little paleontologists discovered fascinating facts about these prehistoric creatures! We completed dinosaur puzzles, made dinosaur masks and headdresses, and pieced together "bones" to create a full dinosaur skeleton, practicing our creativity and problem-solving skills while imagining what it might have been like to live among these giant reptiles.
We also strengthened focus and fine motor skills through exercises such as cutting a variety of shapes, transferring water with cups and pipettes, and threading lace through dinosaur cards.
For this week’s cooking activity, we made rice balls with rice, a touch of sugar, and some dried fruit. We seasoned the rice, scooped and packed it into molds, and decorated it with dried cranberries.
On Wednesday, Coach Evan led soccer class and taught us how to connect with the ball and dribble across the yard.
Next week, we will begin a two-week study on Builders and Engineers, so stay tuned!
Students colored and cut out a baby dinosaur, then traced an oval onto paper and cut it into two halves before finally gluing it together to create a hatching dinosaur egg.
Students colored dinosaur headdresses and cut out their own dinosaur masks.
Students colored in parts of a pterodactyl and half of a paper plate and attached the pieces together to depict the dinosaur in flight.
Students placed a dinosaur template onto paper and painted on top to create silhouettes.
Students colored in and cut out the various parts of a dinosaur to piece together.
Students continued to hone their fine motor skills over the week through a variety of hands-on activities.
This week, students made rice balls by seasoning their rice with some sugar, scooping and pushing it into molds, and adding eyes and a mouth made of dried cranberries.
This week, students played with basketballs and bouncy balls in addition to joining Coach Evan for a new game during our soccer class.
