This week, we started learning about dinosaurs! On Monday, I was not at school, but the students read “Dinosaur, Dinosaur” with Mr. Matt, Mrs. Sue, and Ms. Paula.
On Tuesday, we had fun in the forest classroom. We discovered some areas in our outdoor classroom that we had never explored before, including a vine that was perfect for swinging on and an undiscovered fort! We also read “Under the Snow” and talked about the animals that spend the winter under snow, inside of trees, or under the ice in a pond. When we went on our walk later, we thought about the creatures that might be hiding along our path. The students were up for a challenge, so we walked further on the path than we ever had before!
On Wednesday, we read a story about a frog that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. This launched us into a very interesting conversation about extinction and how it happened. The students had so many questions, and some of them formed their own hypotheses about how and why the dinosaurs went extinct. Preschoolers are amazing scientists!
On Thursday, we borrowed stacking cups from Mrs. Irish for a bit of extra morning fun! Since it was pouring rain outside, we played in the gym. We also read a very silly story called “When Dinosaurs Came With Everything.” It is about a town where they gave away free dinosaurs with everything; hair cuts, donuts, doctor visits…you name it! A boy and his mother end up with 4 dinosaurs by the end of the day and have to figure out what to do with them. Students had fun imagining what they would do with 4 pet dinosaurs!
On Friday, we read “How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food.” We talked about fiction versus non-fiction, and how we know that a book is fictional (i.e., dinosaurs don’t really sit in chairs and eat with a fork and knife). When we went outside, we noticed a fallen branch that was draped over our fence. We decided to use that branch and all of the other fallen branches around it to make a fort!
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