Learning Reflections!

We interviewed the kindergarteners to find out what their favourite dinosaur activities were, and what they learned.  Here are some of their responses...

Environments

This week we made dinosaur environments out of play-dough! Here are some pictures of students with their dioramas.

Fossils

Last week we learned about fossils.  We made our own imprint fossils out of play-dough!

Dinosaur Masks

The kindergarteners made dinosaur masks and used themselves to make dinosaur patterns.

Herbivores and Carnivores

On Monday we talked a lot about "plant-eaters" and "meat-eaters". For one lesson, we did an experiment to see what it might look like inside different dinosaurs' stomachs. We put the contents into sandwich bags so the students could feel each 'stomach'. Some words the students used to describe the way they felt was "mushy, squishy, and chunky!"

Colourful Eggs

On Wednesday we decorated dinosaur eggs using a variety of different materials including paint, pastel chalk, crayons and more!

Dinosaur Patterns

Today we talked about many features of dinosaurs including size, colour, length of tail and neck, plates and spikes, and the amount of legs different dinosaurs stand on. Here are some videos of patterns that students made using the dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Stories

Today the kindergarteners discovered colourful footprints leading up to a dinosaur cave.  In the dinosaur cave was a nest with dinosaur eggs.  They each got to hatch open an egg with a dinosaur and come up with a story about that dinosaur.  

Here are the stories from the morning group:

Mom and Dad dinosaur are rocking their baby beside a tree.  They are very happy.

Rex is mad at his friend Reckie.  Rex’s friend won’t play with him.  The end.

Once there was a dinosaur that laid an egg and the dinosaur eggs hatched.  The mama dinosaur was surprised; there were lots of eggs.  The end. 

There is a house and there is a mom and some eggs.  The mom said “go in the house with the eggs”.

The dinosaur hatched out of his egg and he went out in the jungle and saw his pal Rex to play with.

He went to come get the eggs in there but they hatched already. 

The dinosaur was looking at an egg and then he found a T-Rex and they fought.

The dinosaur walks fast.

There were three dinosaurs they go back to a house then finish. 

One baby meat eater got lost in the pterodactyl family and the mommy went to look for the baby meat eater.  She didn’t find him. 

The dinosaurs are looking for people; they go up a mountain in the jungle.  A dinosaur comes out of the river.  Triceratops is going to eat the meat eaters.  They run away. 

A longneck eats leaves and a pterodactyl drinks water. 

The babies are trying to get you and the grandma tries to get the dad.  The baby is sleeping and the grandma is sleeping.  Water is bubbling, 

Mrs. B was at a dinosaur place and she took the eggs and she took them to the school.  She put them in a bag and that’s all!

Here are the stories from the afternoon group:

Dinosaur Stories

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Introduction

Welcome to our dinosaur learning blog!  Over the next three weeks we will be learning all about dinosaurs.  We have many exciting learning adventures planned, including a dinosaur dig and a trip to a museum, so be sure to keep checking back!

- Mrs. P and Miss K -