The dinosaur period

I am going to try and update my blog a little.

When we started our dinosaur study, I had the kids look at this book:



The kids love all our Usborne books but all from this series are favorites. When it is time for a story before bed, they will often pull out of of them and want to look and find the images instead of reading a book.

I also pulled out several books that helps kids to learn how to draw dinosaurs and prehistoric life:







May seem like a lot of books (and I did not post them all) but some were gifts and some were bought in garage sales and used books stores. Yes, some were bought brand new too. Anyway, the kids had much fun drawing several pages each of dinosaurs:

Catherine's work:

William's work:

Zachary's work:

Everyday, we sat all together and read a fun book:



This one sure was long to read. I remember us cuddling all together on my bed, reading a few pages, taking a one minute nap then read a few more pages then nap another minute. The kids thought it was so fun.



This one was a fast read and Ali reminded us that it was *her* book:



This was the biggest, most successful project of our dinosaur study:



It was very long to cut every little piece but it was fun to put it together. I would cut a few items everday and we would put them together. We saw the scenery come together, little by little. This was the result:



Of course, we had more books to read and so many things to learn too. I even found a few sites for the kids to explore and play on.



This site is full of info on dinosaurs and has some fun games to play:

http://nature.ca/discover/exf/index_f.cfm