Our dinosaur study continued this week, but I’ll circle back around and show the class the SpaceX ship that docked on the International Space Station this earlier in the week. The class has been talking about our solar system mobile and announced that we needed to find the moon. We added a tiny bead attached to a toothpick so that it could orbit our earth. This week the Honey Bees created large scale dinosaur skeletons with loose parts, painted handprintasaurus dinosaurs, played with dinosaur small worlds, scrubbed fossils, and read many fiction and non fiction dinosaur books.
In the coming week we will build our cardboard box carnivore and herbivore. If you have any boxes at home please bring them in tomorrow or tuesday. We will make a dinosaur book about the five kinds of dinosaurs in our new Pete the Cat book Cavecat Pete. We will learn the Stegasaurus Song and one of my favorite They Might Be Giants songs I am a Paleontologist.
I’ll make a few paleontologist sensory bins, talk about how fossils are made, and we’ll make our own fossils with air dry clay. Wynne brought in a bucket of fossils from her house for us to wash, and we’ll wonder how sea shells got to Wynne’s house in Blacksburg. Have you ever been fossil hunting in Craig Creek? I also have a bucket of substrate from a dig in South Carolina that has many sharks teeth, fish bones, sea shells, and coral fossils. We’ll do individual explorations with tiny brushes and the kids can bring home their finds.
At the end of our dinosaur unit we’ll talk about dinosaur extinction and volcanos, but I think this will be after spring break.
We all decided that every Friday should be pajama day, and next Friday I want to let the Honey Bees taste a blood orange if they want to. I’ve been eating them, and they have been wondering.
FYI, I’m looking for four mortar and pestles and four citrus squeezers that could live in our classroom if these are things that you might be willing to donate.
