ROAR!

There was lots of roaring going on at preschool this week as the children learned all about the world of dinosaurs.

After a dino hunt the children discovered a mama dinosaur sitting on her nest of eggs (yummy chocolate eggs that we just had to sample). Then they discovered the preschool room had been overtaken by numerous dinosaurs!

I love the expression on Kylers face- as if he was the T-Rex.

My idea was to have the children paint the dinosaur then use their hands to make the stegosaurus spikes. The children's idea was to cover every square inch of the paper with paint. Looked good to me so out went the hand prints and in came the paint brushes.

Kyler got lots of practice on his fine motor skills covering his dinosaur.

Day2 of dinosaurs brought even more roaring and dinosaur stomping. The rhythm sticks were lots of fun to use with our Dinosaur marching songs. The children's improvement in finding the simple rhythms of the music has increased dramatically. Not only are they following me, they are creating their own routines and following each other.

Again! Again! That's what I kept hearing as the volcano erupted over and over again. Those poor dinosaurs!

Making fossils out of salt dough gave them a good opportunity to strengthen the muscles that help with fine motor skills. Plus, it was lots of fun to make dinosaur footprints everywhere.

Sampling some herbivore snacks at our Brachiosaurus picnic.

I'm sure the entire neighborhood hear the squeals of delight when a fossil was discovered by our little paleontologists.

Dino Ball fun turned into T-Rex tag. These children sure are fast and catch me everytime

I love teaching your little ones and this week was no exception. We had so much fun discovering the world of dinosaurs together. Sometimes a week just seems too short for some themes so we may just have to revisit the world of dinosaurs again.