- Abigail is 2.5 years old (31 months) -
- Adam is 4.75 years old -
D is for Dinosaur
Last week was “A” week, but we skipped to “D” this week in order to have something special for “C” and “B” weeks….yep, in that order. Can you guess? Caterpillars to Butterflies! We had to wait until the weather cooled off so the little caterpillars would arrive alive, so we’re actually doing “E” week next, and we’ll go back to “C” and “B”.
So, for “D” week, I used Confessions of a Homeschooler’s Letter of the Week curriculum and did D is for Dinosaur! We read a bunch of library books about different dinosaurs and I was reminded just how cool they are! Our AlphaTales book, was “Detective Dog and the Disappearing Donuts” and the ABC poem from the Scholastic Teacher Express ABC Poem of the Week e-book was “Deep Diving Ducks”.
The kids absolutely devoured everything about dinosaurs! We had lots of talks about how they lived a loooong time ago and that only their bones are left on the earth now. I guess that’s a hard concept for a kid! The highlights of the week were having a family movie night and watching The Land Before Time and going to a dinosaur park!
Abby’s ‘D’ Activities
D/d Sorting
Dinosaur Size Sort
This concept is a little hard for her right now. So, what she mostly did was play “family” with them!
Loving on the “tiny baby”!
Dinosaur Counting
Notice the cute baby toes at the bottom!
Adam’s “D” Activities
Dinosaur Size Sort
Dinosaur Clip Cards
Letter D Hunt
He circled the ‘bb’ in Debbie and then when I pointed it out, he put a little ‘x’ under it. He had to really concentrate with all the d-b-p’s on the page!
Dinosaur Graphing
He used a dry erase marker to color or ‘x’ in one square per dinosaur.
Preschool Activities
In addition to a little bit of Math-U-See Primer, Adam used his “Kumon” Let’s Cut!” workbook to practice scissor skills. He loves this book!
He then asked to cut construction paper. Look how peacefully diligent they are working! Looks can be deceiving!
He made a little Christmas tree and then some random “machines” with the snips of paper he cut.
Using our Handwriting Without Tears curriculum, we built Mat Man using the wood pieces and blue mat. Both kids really enjoyed this
activity!
Adam building his own Mat Man while listening to the Mat Man song.
Abby’s Mat Man.
After building Mat Man with the wood pieces, we drew him on paper. Here is Adam’s completed drawing:
I love all the detail he put in! He made me label everything, which I’m grateful for, since there’s no way I’d ever remember everything!
Combined “D” Activities
Hard at work on various coloring pages.
Adam tracing letters.
Abby also started tracing some of her letters!
Dinosaur Cut & Paste
All the coloring/art pages we did one day.
Adam Abby
Adam named his dinosaur, (the middle page), Adam Shurtleff Adam because he said his Papa’s last name is Shurtleff. He asked me how to spell it and then worked hard to write some of the letters for the first time.
I captured this precious moment of them looking at a dinosaur book together. Adam decided that his favorite dinosaur is a Triceratops and Abby decided that her favorite is a T-Rex. They loved this library book in particular.
For my own future reference, it is "National Geographic Little Kids: First Big Book of Dinosaurs”.
For our Letter D Collage, we used dinosaurs to make dinosaur tracks!
Dinosaur Dig Sensory Bin
I “borrowed” some sand from our local park and buried some plastic dinosaurs. I gave the kids little shovels and paintbrushes and told them to start digging. They were so excited to find dinosaurs buried in the sand!
On Saturday, we took a family trip to a local dinosaur park. They have an indoor museum, and then a park with walking paths and models of dinosaurs, complete with scary sounds, (which little Abby didn’t quite appreciate). We had a lot of fun and the kids recognized a lot of the dinosaurs that we had been reading about!
Abby’s favorite….T-Rex!
She wasn’t too thrilled with it because there was a scary roaring sound coming from a speaker, as well as guts and blood hanging from it’s mouth. What you can’t see in the picture is that there is a poor, dead dinosaur on the ground with a big chunk bitten out of it’s side. Yeah….they were pretty life-like. We had to keep reminding the kids that they were just pretend!
Adam’s favorite….Triceratops!
Digging for bones
“Don’t eat us!!”
We had a GREAT week learning a little about dinosaurs! I think we could spend a month on them…..maybe in a few years we’ll tackle it!
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