Dinosaurs Day

Becky from the Idaho Museum of Natural History at ISU brought several examples of fossils to our classroom for the kids to look at and touch. It was fascinating and tied into the unit we did on dinosaurs. We had two books in our reading series that tied in too.  One was called Little Grunt and Big Egg  and the other was Mighty Dinosaurs. We had great discussions about fact and fiction as it relates to dinosaurs and the prehistoric age. Each child came up with an hypothesis about what they think happen to the dinosaurs and why they all died. They had to use scientific facts as much as they could and explain what we don't know. It was very interesting to see how their brains processed. We played paleontologists and dug bones (chocolate chips) out of hard dirt (cookies) with instruments (toothpicks). We discovered that it is very difficult to not touch the bones or break them. We also learned to draw dinosaurs. It was super fun and great learning.