Dinosaurs

This week we went back in time to take a look at Dinosaurs.







We used many informational books for our resources and enjoyed studying the illustrations and variety of animals shown.







Using those illustrations as inspiration, we painted our own versions of dinosaurs.





We buried dinos in the sand table so they could fossilize for later discovery!



We build zoos and other holding spaces for our dinos with the wooden building blocks.








A group art project used torn paper and glue to cover a "large" dinosaur for our classroom wall.


For the very special Mom's in our lives, we made a simple handprint as a keepsake. We hope you all have a blessed Mother's Day.

Derby Horses

We got into the Kentucky Derby festivities a bit this week with our unit on Horses.

We made our own versions of Jockey Caps and ran a race around the room, galloping towards the finish line.

Learning about the various parts of a horse expanded our vocabulary and

we were most interested in the process of shoeing a horse. We couldn't think of another animal that wears shoes!








We painted some vibrantly colored horses and traced around real horseshoes at the art table.








Our scissor skills were put to the test as we cut out three different sized horses and glued them onto a larger sheet of paper.



Cutting on a curved line is much more challenging than fringing the edge or cutting along a straight line. Our friends are really working on those challenges.