This morning several of my friends started off their day by doing dinosaur rubbings. When we rubbed our crayons over the paper, a dinosaur magically appeared! Then, we used these cool tracers to trace and decorate dinosaurs.
In group this morning we learned about the Pteranadon. The children liked that Pteranadons did not have any teeth. They thought it was funny because the Pteranadons swallowed their fish whole. We pretended to be Pteranadons and flew around the room.
After group, we were so excited to go outside and have SPLASH DAY!
Here we are peeking out to see it all set up...
Once we started splash day, some of us took a moment to see what it was all about...
Others jumped right in and got MESSY:)
It didn't take long until EVERYONE was joining in the fun!
We bathed our dinousaurs at the water table...
played in the kiddie pool...
blew bubbles...
...and proudly caught them!
We slid in shaving cream on the slip-n-slide...
Ran through sprinklers to rinse off...
...and then slip-n-slided some more!
It was an awesome splash day!
Once we were ALL dried off and back in our normal clothes, we painted the T-Rex teeth that we made yesterday. One little girl pointed out that her dino tooth was yellow so her dinosaur must not have brushed his teeth and had a lot of sugar bugs. So, we pretended to brush them with a paint brush and turned them all white.
We had such a big morning that every child in group 1 fell sound asleep during our quiet rest time.
When we woke up, we played some really fun games with the 5 children that were staying for the afternoon.
We played "Dinosaur, Dinosaur Where's Your Tooth?" first.
In this game someone in the circle hides the tooth. We all pretend that it is in our laps.
When we start to chant a silly little rhyme, the "dinosaur" comes looking and tries to guess who has his tooth...
This game turned into a game of Hide and Go Seek (Dino Style:). Everyone would run and hide their eyes while one child would find a place around the room to hide the tooth. We would sing, "Oh Where, Oh Where Has Our Dino Tooth Gone"... and all my little paleontologists would scramble to search for it. They would shriek with excitement when someone found it.
Here is our day in pictures...
We (Gabby and Teresa) are sad that tomorrow is our last day of this big dinosaur adventure that we've been on with your amazing children. It has been such an honor to spend our week with them, and to watch their eyes light up with wonder and excitement as they've discovered new things.
They have worked together...
Helped each other...
...and even taught each other new things.
Your little paleontologists have made some very special friendships this week!
Thank you for sharing your sweet children with us.
Thank you for taking great care of our children..they are pretty special to us and im sure each and every one of them will miss you all come Monday-and perhaps their new friends too...
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