Hello out there Garden Children and families. My own children are digging into their online school here in the kitchen, and my dog thinks our new schedules are just right. How are you feeling? I’ve been thinking about all of the Honeybees and their families and adding pictures to our Instagram of the things we are doing at home.
Let’s start with a story this morning. I’m surprised to find so many of the stories that I read at school are online. This one is old yet always a favorite in my class.
I thought I’d share a recipe for salt dough in case you want to make your own fossils. These can be baked and used in a paleontology sensory bin later. The salt dough can also me shaped into larger dinosaur bones for a dinosaur dig in the coming days.
Salt Dough Recipe : 2 cups of flour, white or wheat…. wheat will make darker fossils, 1 cup salt, 1/2 cup of warm water. Blend well.
I think plants make a beautiful addition to our fossil making. In the classroom I’d bring in ferns and interesting leaves to press into the dough. If you aren’t ready for salt dough today, you can press the dinosaurs and plants into playdough.
When you are ready for an amazing field trip, there are many fossils to be found in our area. Have you ever been to the creek just behind Caldwell Fields or Poverty Creek at Pandapas Pond? Are the Honeybees ready to talk about why there are seashell fossils in the Blue Ridge Mountains? Of course they are.
Here’s one more story I always read when we are learning about dinosaurs.
I added one extra story for my mermaid friends.
