Dinosaurs

When we went to the library here for the first time two weeks ago this was one of the books we brought home.

Since we'd been talking about dinosaurs, I picked up some stuff at target thinking Chris would enjoy doing dinosaur stuff with the girls while I was gone last weekend. Then of course I was sick and came home early. Wouldn't you know Jurassic Park was on cable...... We ended up putting in our disc so I could skip the death scenes. The girls thoroughly enjoyed it and have been asking to watch it again. We spent all weekend talking about dinosaurs and theories of what happened to them. How they lived an incredibly long time ago and we only know they existed because we find their bones.

I came home Friday feeling miserable. The girls were asking me every 10 minutes if we could build the dinosaurs yet. I managed to push it off to Sunday morning and surprisingly they held up till last night, when the T-rex bit the dust :p Not bad for a $5 investment. They have been having a great time playing with them all week.

Wow! $20?? I got it on clearance for $5 at Target!! Note to self, check again and resell on amazon.

My Dinosaurs Fact Cards

Found this at target for a little more than a dollar on clearance. No, I don't think the girls are learning all that much from them at this age. However, I remember having a set of dinosaur cards from one of the mail order education magazines and holding them dear for years. The girls have enjoyed flipping through them. The pictures are nice. It has a size comparison to a human on the back to give them an idea of size. Tamarin keeps pointing out the ones she recognizes from shows like Dinosaur, Dinosaur Train, The Land Before Time, and yes.... even Jurassic Park.... 



I'm going to pull out Chris's and my Jurassic Park toys from when we were little and let the girls play with them tomorrow while Chris watches them during my doctor appointment. They haven't seen them since we moved so I'm sure they will be entertained!

I'm thinking I'll scrap the bat and hibernation plans for this week. We've also cancelled our prairie theme plans on Friday so I'll run with the dinosaurs this week. We'll probably make a paper plate dino and clay fossils. If I had it in me we'd go to Sam Noble Museum, but I'll just have to pull up pics to help them remember our last visit there. It is my favorite museum in Oklahoma..... and I'm going to claim to not be biased..... I did work there for a semester in the anthropology department...... not biased at all......

I briefly mentioned Latin while we were looking at the cards. I'm thinking of having her sort them by the names that are similar. Prontoceratops, Triceratops, etc. Then we can talk about how many of the names tell us something about the animal.