It’s been dino week around here! My little niece requested that we have a dinosaur theme, and very specifically asked for a dinosaur life cycle and craft. So, I of course obliged. I call her dino girl for a reason – at five, she already knows pretty much everything about dinosaurs. When I started to get resources together, I decided to focus on skills work with a dinosaur theme, rather than actually learning about dinosaurs themselves. I mean, we did do a little of that, but for the most part everything was more related to dinosaurs instead of about them. And it turned out to be a great week! Wyatt likes dinosaurs but he is not all in, so I did want him to know a little more about dinosaurs before we go to Jurassic Quest next month. We did lizards last week per his request, and I felt like the two, dinosaurs and lizards went hand in hand pretty nicely!
We do have quite a bit of dinosaurs and dinosaur things at our house, so it made it easy to set up an inviting area to introduce this week’s topic. I always like to set it up on Sunday night to surprise Wyatt with our weekly theme, and this was a fun one. When Billy saw it he asked “How will Wyatt survive school with all those dinosaurs?”
So – we did our regular curriculum from Blossom and Root and Math for a Living Education, then added in some fun extra stuff. A dinosaur memory game, and of course, a dinosaur life cycle. We divided dinosaurs into herbivores and carnivores, labeled a triceratops, and reviewed size sequencing. We read about different types of dinosaurs, as well as some fun little stories too. Then yesterday we went to my mom’s for craft time with my mom and Dino Girl.
We are going to keep the theme up for another week, then take a week off of school for a break. When we start back up it will be our last “official” month of school and kindergarten, so we are going out with a splash and doing a month long ocean unit. I am looking forward to it!
Resource Round Up:
Free dinosaur printables from Simple Every Day Mom
Free Dinosaur Printable Pack from Simple Living Creative Learning
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
Great photos, and what fun projects. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks!
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What a cool week! Love dinosaurs.
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They are awesome – great big giant lizards. LOL
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I never learned the first thing about dinosaurs as a child (who lived during the Jurassic period!!). I think the T-rex is about the only one I knew until my granddaughter Lucia started learning about them. She is crazy crazy crazy about dinos. For her birthday, I found some dinosaur eggs and ‘rocks’ that had dino fossils (fake) at Target that my granddaughter could excavate and clean up with tools that were included in the kit. They would be great center activities for your unit.
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