In place of doing a puzzle the students wanted to categorize all of the dinosaurs in the toy box. So the carefully analyzed each dinosaur and decided whether they were a carnivore or an herbivore.
We read the book Ten Little Dinosaurs. The students really enjoyed the finger puppets that go along with the book. The story is similar to 5 Little Monkeys jumping on a bed.
After the story we played some more dinosaur games so they could learn the rules. The students will be taking the games home over the weekend in place of the Book Buddy Bags. The first game was Dino Flip Five by Briar Patch.
The second game was Dino Dominoes by Great American.
The third game was Dinosaur Card Game by International Games.
For free play one student chose to play with the dinosaurs, one wanted to be a cowgirl, and the other one decided to be a fireman and turn our car into a fire engine. I just had to share this picture.
For snack we dug for dinosaurs, a slice of cheese that we cut with a dinosaur cookie cutter, Ritz crackers, and apple juice. After snack we made peanut butter cookies, the cookies were the base for making dinosaur fossils and dinosaur footprints. We will have the cookies as our dessert when we go to Dinosaur Ridge on Thursday.
After snack we went outside and tried to visualize just how big dinosaurs really were. We set up cones every 10 feet. We took some dinosaurs and read about how long they were. Then we placed the dinosaur on our outside measuring tape. I am not sure the students really grasp the concept, because as we talked about how long the dinosaur really was they just looked at the plastic dinosaur in their hand and looked at me very confused.
The wind was really strong today so we had to cut the out door activities short. We came back in and looked through a dinosaur encyclopedia, predicted whether the the dinosaur was a carnivore or a herbivore, then we graphed our results after reading about the dinosaur.
Homework was Dinosaur dot to dot, a stegosaurus worksheet and one dinosaur book to read and share with class on Thursday.
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