Prehistoric Times has been the theme this week and it has been great to just "dig" in to many great dinosaur activities.  (This is the theme Neil has been waiting for all year!) 
     We have loved stories such as The Dinosaur Stomp, Ten Little Dinosaurs, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight.  These books and others have been followed with  (and interrupted by) very loud roaring and snarling.  It is very scary to be surrounded by dinosaurs all day.  I have even had to guard my eggs from dinosaur Dylan K. and Dino Kaden. They keep eating them.  Neil also brought a book he wrote so we could read it at story time.  Thanks for the story Neil, we all enjoyed it.   
     In math, we added dinosaurs and Palmer especially enjoyed the math addition cards we used.  He asked for them to be read several times.  We also practiced patterns using dinosaurs. 
     In art, we made all kinds of great dino projects.  We made big T-Rex pictures and large dinosaur eggs.  We worked as teams to make Dino environments for our dinosaur figures to stomp through.  We used cardboard boxes, rocks, branches, sand glue and paint to construct the environments and they look super.
     In science, we have a hatching dino egg.  It has been exciting to check the egg every morning and see what is going on.  Thanks again Neil for the egg.  We were paleontologists and spent some time digging in the dirt looking for fossilized dinos and bones.
     Of course a lot of our movement activities have centered around Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures movements.  We have moved with 2 feet like T-Rex, 4 feet like Anklyosaurus, flying like Pterodactyl or swimming like Ichthyosaurus.  Although Ellie was always a kitty.  I am sure she was a prehistoric kitty.
     Happy Birthday to Dylan K.!  You are 4 now!  Dylan, we love the stories you tell and all the sweet things you say!  Happy Birthday, Buddy!