This morning the students found a new bucket of dinosaurs. There was a lot of interest in the dinosaurs. There were some very loud roars and I asked the students to remind the dinosaurs that they needed to use their inside voices in preschool.
We turned to some dinosaur books to help us identify the different dinosaurs that were in the bucket. This was the first times that we used non fiction books to help us with our lessons. The students were excited when they found a picture of the dinosaur they had seen in the toy box.
We talked about the people that study dinosaurs and learned that they were called "paleontologists." It took us most of the day to learn how to say paleontologist. We used our magnifying glasses to look at pictures of paleontologists and identify as many different tools/items that they use to help them learn about dinosaurs.
We learned that many paleontologists had vests with multiple pockets. We used brown paper bags to make our own paleontologist vest. We drew pockets onto the vest.
Then we cut out the vest.
After all their hard work, they had earned some free play time. The students decided to play firemen save the princess.
For snack each paleontologist chose one snack from the food cupboard and brought it to the table to share with all the other paleontologists. We had gingerbread cookies, celery with peanut butter, fruit snacks, yogurt and apple juice.
After snack we put on our vests and searched for dinosaurs that had been frozen in ice. Our paleontologists used warm water, hammers, saws, and screwdrivers. They were very pleased when they were able to break their dinosaur free from the ice.
Homework was to color a dinosaur and name it, make a Triceratops craft, and to read a book about dinosaurs and then they were to tell us about the book on Tuesday.
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