If I Was a Dinosaur....

As promised from yesterday's post, I'm back with pictures from my kiddos dinosaur writing. We wrote a lot about dinosaurs the last two weeks but one of our favorite writings was when they talked about what they would do if they were a dinosaur.

I made a huge chart (no picture sorry) that said If I was a dinosaur.....and had boxes that said live, eat, look, etc.

I modeled first by saying..if I was a dinosaur I would be green, have spikes, 4 legs. I would live near the water and eat fish. 

Then I modeled how to follow what we wrote and create my picture. After, I modeled how to write each sentence.

The kiddos did great!! 

 If I was a dinosaur, I will live in the woods. I will be green.

 If I was a dinosaur, I would eat fish and I would eat another dinosaur. I go to the woods. I would be red. 

 If I was a dinosaur, I would be purple. I would have nine legs. (Whoa!)

 If I was a dinosaur, I would be yellow. I would have four legs. I would have four teeth. I would have sharp teeth. (She finished on the back---check out those teeth!)

 How cute!!!

 (This kid can spell and read anything you give him---so everything is spelled correctly. No inventive spelling here!)  He would live by the playground and be heavy!

I created a little sheet for you. Click on the picture to grab it!

 

 

Dinosaurs Galore!

We have loved learning about dinosaurs the past two weeks---me especially. This is such a fun theme to teach--the kiddos are into it, I see serious improvement in their writing (mainly because they like the topic) and it's just fun!!

Here's a peek at what we've been up to---fantabulous writing!!

My dinosaur eats meat. Dinos are big. Dinos have sharp teeth. Dinos can run. Dinos have two legs.

(Check out the arms on that T-Rex---funny!)

          My dinosaur is big. My dinosaur have two legs. My dinosaur is brown.

                         (That pink item is a piece of meat!)

       Dinosaurs can lay babies (lol) also they can be reptiles. 

                           They are animals.

 

                                                     Dinosaurs can walk. Dinosaurs eat meat. 
                                                           Dinosaurs are creatures.

I was so excited when I saw these writings plus the others I didn't take pictures of. My kiddos are doing great. I love their inventive spelling (the word dinosaur is up everywhere in the room) and how they reference the room for words that they know are available.

Today we learned about Paleontologists and what their jobs are. Of course the dinosaur poop was the biggest hit. 

 

Then we used some of Deanna Jump's Dinosaur Unit and created out own T-Rex fossils and then used chocolate chip cookies to excavate fossils.

  I think my little T-Rex in the middle had back problems before he became a fossil.

    Unfortunately this paleontologist in the making broke the rock and the fossils within it.
 

 

But this dear kiddo was intent on digging out those fossils without breaking anything.

The kiddos really enjoyed these activities as did I. 

Don't forget to check out my Dino-Families activity pack to use when reviewing word families.

 

You can grab it here from TPT or here on TN. 

 

   

   

Dinosaur and Mailbox randomness

So my post that I promised on Sunday about my Mailbox finds...well here it is. I'm just swamped and to be completely honest, I have no desire to blog when I get home...I look around at other stuff. Then I fall out. 

Ah it is what it is---I see a nice restful day in my future soon. 
 
Anyhoo--the other day I received an email from TheMailbox.com about a huge sale they were having where if you buy 1 theme kit, you get 4 free. I was like yeh right...there's gotta be a catch, I'll look at it later.

Well later came and I looked. WOW!! What a deal it was. The theme kits are normally priced $19.95 but they were discounted down to $10 and if you bought 1, you picked 4 free!!!! So here's what I got!

 I bought 4 Kindergarten kits which included: 
Pumpkins and Leaves
Farm and Pond
Ocean and Weather
Apples and Dinosaurs

And one First Grade Kit:
Penguins and Solar System

Here are a couple of activities from the Apples and Dinosaurs Kit. I LOVE how they are color coded and self-checking!!!!

 

I'm still cutting out activities (they come laminated as well---did I mention that bit of good news??). So these are the pictures that I have but my kiddos have been using the Dinosaur activities with my assistant in her small groups as a review and it's been a great little quick activity to use.

I'm so excited b/c I bought all of those kits for $17!!!! Once I cut out more activities and get them organized I'll post more pictures. 

I just posted up on my TN shop and my TPT shop this quick little activity for word families.

 The first person to comment and leave their email can grab this activity up!! 

This activity is for words families that include:

at

am

op

ig

en

og

Also included:

ing

ail

ack

ake

est

ain

It comes with 2 recording sheets to record the words after they are sorted out.

It also comes with cut and paste activity sheets for sorting the word families.

We are loving learning about dinosaurs. More pictures and activities to come this week!!