Letter D Week

Letter D Week

D if for Dinosaurs!

In an effort to be more interesting, I will be sharing some thoughts with you about our Dinosaur Week, instead of making a top ten list.  We will get all of the "knowns" out of the way.  Of course, we had awesome snacks, we always have awesome snacks.  And we made our famous alphabet page, this week being Letter D...and D is for Dinosaurs.  We sang songs about letter D, we were detectives and found uppercase and lowercase letter D's. We practiced our letter D handwriting.  We also made our letter animal (a Dinosaur).  We read stories about Dinosaurs. Pretty normal and a little boring..right? 

Well the exciting stuff would be making our awesome salt dough Dinosaur Fossil and letting them dry and then painting them.  While the kids made their fossils, I made a salt dough volcano.  We let the volcano dry and then we made it erupt for our science experiment.  You know the good old vinegar and baking soda kinda of way.  And we had to add red food coloring to make it look like lava.  We also played some games this week...one being a Dinosaur Shape Stomp.

"Stomp, stomp, stomp to a Dinosaur beat.

Stomp on a ______________ (teacher names a shape) with your feet.

We practiced with ovals, circles, squares, triangles, diamonds, rectangles, hearts and stars. 

We also learned a new word family, the "an"family (an, ban, can, Dan, fan, man, Nan, pan, ran, tan, van).  We are getting really good at sounding out three letter words. 

The most exciting thing we did this week if you ask the kids would be making chocolate pudding Dinosaur dirt cups. We used clear plastic cups, made instant chocolate pudding, put crunched up Oreo dirt on top with a plastic Dinosaur.  Dino-licious!

I hope everyone had a great week learning about the letter D and Dinosaurs. I know I did!

Till next time, 

Miss Heidi