Tails!

Hello Parents,

Today we learned about dinosaur tails. We asked the kids if they were a dinosaur would they prefer a long tail or short tail? Most of the kids would like a long tail they said because it would help protect them. We learned a poem that went along with the the tails.


Brontosaurus has a long one,

Mussaurus's was small,

Stegosaurus had a spiky one,

But we don't have one at all.
Tails

We also learned about Australia and learned that in January here it is summer there. We played a yes or no game called dinosaur parts. We had a hanger with yes and no taped on the hanger, and had cups hanging under the yes or no. Each kid had an object and was asked a yes or no question such as Would you like to have a long tail? Each kid had to then put there object in the correct cup. Afterwords all the kids could see how much more said yes or no.

We also played a game called collecting bones. Each kid got to pick a dinosaur they wanted to be and put it at the start. Then they rolled the dice and moved there dinosaur the correct amount of spaces. On the space was either; nothing there, collect 1 bone, collect 2 bones, give back 1 bone, or give back 2 bones. They had to collect as many bones as they could. When they got to the end they had to count all they bones. Then tell how many bones they had. They kids really enjoyed playing this fun game!

We had they also take the bones and pretend there finger was a tail and try to balance the bone on there finger. This was really fun the kids found out how hard it would be to not have hands to hold things.

For art today we gave each kid a piece of string to paint with. We had them pretend that the string was a tail of a dinosaur. They really enjoyed painting with the strings!

 Reminder:

Tuesday, January 31st 2012

We will be having show and tell!

Please help your child find something that reminds him/her of a dinosaur!

Please bring in the item, photo, or drawing on or before Tuesday!
             Thanks,
                    Miss Ashlee and Miss Nicole!