Welcome to a Prehistoric Time!

Last week we began our exciting unit on dinosaurs!  The students were all very excited to try out the different dinosaur centres at play time - finding fossils in the sand table, playing with muddy dinosaurs in the sensory bin, making fossils out of moon sand, walking on dinosaur stilts, and building dinosaur puzzles.  

Some Dinosaur Math

I challenged the students with the question - just how BIG was a T-Rex?  We watched a short video that compared a T-Rex to a house, elephant, tennis court, and football field.  The students couldn't believe that the T-Rex was as tall as a house and the same length as a tennis court!

We then got chatting about a T-Rex's foot - I challenged the students again - how many of our feet do you think can fit inside a T-Rex's footprint?  We used a paper template of a T-Rex foot to measure.  The students could not believe how big it really was, and just how many of our shoes we could fit into just ONE T-Rex footprint.  Click here to see more pictures of our footprint measuring.  

Dinosaurs Like to Get Messy Too!

We had fun making dinosaur footprints this past week.  We worked together to make two big 'dino track' pictures per class.  Click here for more pictures of our footprint painting.

Pink Shirt Day

We were excited to be able to see the Kindness Matters video on pink shirt day.  If you look closely - you can even see some of our PreK friends in the dancing scene!  I began to introduce the concept of bullying.  The students took turns sharing different behaviours that are "mean" and could hurt someone's feelings.  Each time a behaviour was shared we folded up a paper heart.  At the end I unfolded the heart so the students could see how crumpled it was.  We talked about how when you are mean to someone it hurts that person's heart; and although you can say sorry, you can never take back what happened.  We ended our lesson by each sharing a behaviour that is kind.  

In The Gym

This week we strengthened our gross motor skills in the gym.  The students used towels to pull each other around the gym, they enjoyed taking turns being the "tow truck" and the "broken car".  We also had fun developing body awareness while playing musical towels.  

Coming Up

This upcoming week we will continue with our dinosaur theme.  

• March 1st and March 2nd - early dismissal days 
• The morning class will dismiss at 10:25 am
• The afternoon class will dismiss at 2:15 pm