It was a very exciting week! Everyone loves dinosaurs!!!! We read about the different types of dinosaurs and learned some lived on land, some in the air, and some in the water. We also learned that sharp-tooth dinos ate meat and plant-eaters had flat teeth, and dinosaurs hatch from eggs. Some of our friends are dino experts and even taught the teachers some of the dinosaur names. There were big vocabulary words being used by our Ladybugs this week, too- paleontologist, fossil, and extinct.
In one of our activities, we used paintbrushes to delicately brush the sand away to find the dinosaurs just like the paleontologists do! It took lots of patience and restraint to do it gently.
We worked on finding the letters in our names while we created a stegosaurus, and we gave him bones. Our new tiny glue bottles give us better control, but we’ve found we really need to use our hand muscles to squeeze that glue out!
It was really funny learning that a dinosaur’s footprint was SO big that we could ALL stand in it together!!!
Because there is so much to learn about dinosaurs and everyone loves them so much, we are going to continue our dinosaur unit next week. We will be doing some fun science experiments and adding some math dinosaur games.
Don’t forget you can sign up for a conference by using the following link:
MWF Class: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4eaaa928a4fb6-march2#/
T/Th Class: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4eaaa928a4fb6-march3#/
We will be closed on those days (March 13 & 14) so that we have time to speak to you about your marvelous children. We prefer that your child not be present during this time as it can be hard to have a productive conversation with them present. You may want to plan with another parent to watch each others’ children on our playground while one parent goes in for a conference. Thank you for your understanding.
And one last reminder- Please try to be prompt for dropoff & pickup! Some days we have very little time to have our morning greetings meeting before we head out of the room for another activity & we hate to start without all of our friends present. At the end of the day, the teachers have to clean up the classroom & sometimes have meetings when school ends. Our class schedules are currently:
MWF class- 9:10-12:10 Monday & Friday and 9:10-1:00pm on Wednesday
T/Th class- 9:10-12:10 on Tuesday and 9:10-1:00pm on Thursday
Thank you so much for your cooperation :)
We wish you a sunny & happy weekend!!
Miss Sue, Miss Jennifer & Miss Beth