April 4th Week Part B

April 24 - Dinosaurs Herbivore vs Carnivore

To start our day we learned three very important words as we learn to classify dinosaurs: herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. We created a venn diagram to learn about dinosaurs.

On the left side we had herbivore, on the right side was carnivores, and in middle we placed facts that apply to all dinosaurs. Our facts helped us understand that most carnivores walked on two legs and had sharp teeth. Herbivores walked on all four legs and had flat teeth.

With our Venn diagram as a guide we categorized some of the dinosaurs in the toy box.

The students then took time to just play with the dinosaurs. They created dinosaur families, the small dinosaurs were the babies, the medium dinosaurs were the mommies, and the larger ones were the daddy dinosaurs.

For snack the students were given the opportunity to be a herbivore (and eat carrot sticks, tomatoes, and lettuce); a carnivore (and eat a ham slice that had been cut out with a dinosaur  cookie cutter); or be an omnivore and eat both the vegetables and meat with crackers. At first the girls were not going to be a carnivore, but they really wanted to have some ham and crackers. So we were all omnivores.

Homework was a simple ABC dot to dot dinosaur picture, a dinosaur game, and a Buddy Book Bag.