Tuesday already!

Today we started talking about dinosaurs. Yesterday we told Mrs D what we knew about dinosaurs and what we wanted to know. Today Mrs E was back and she started helping us find some answers to our questions. We looked at pictures of fossils and Mrs E talked about how they are made. She told us that we are going to make some pretend fossils but they will look so real that we can trick our mums and dads.
We have a Discovery Centre where the big blocks used to be and we have lots of interesting things in there. We can be palaeontologists at the table and use a little hammer and brush to try to find fossils inside the limestone rocks. We have to wear safety goggles and try not to hit our fingers!
We looked at lots of pictures of dinosaur bones and played a game on the smartboard at http://funschool.kaboose.com/time-warp/dinosaurs it was like concentration but with eggs instead of cards.

We had to pretend that we saw a real dinosaur and Mrs E took a photo of us. Tomorrow she will do something special with the photo and we will have to tell her what we would think and do if it was true.

Charlie and Ryan look like they are scared to see the big dinosaur looking at them.


We are looking forward to Thursday because we are going with PP1 to visit the Perth Museum and look at the dinosaur skeletons and fossils.

Today Mrs E let us get messy with paint. She told Mrs M to put some purple and orange paint in a tray and let us squish it with our hands and fingers. It felt gooey and slippery and cold and smooth. It was SO much fun! After we had played we had to write our names in the paint and take a print of it by putting paper over the tray and pushing it onto the paint. Even though we wrote our names the right way, it came out back-to-front on the paper. If we wanted to read it we had to hold it up to the mirror.

Olivia drew a dinosaur in the tray before she wrote her name.

Eloise got nice and messy :-)

Then Mrs E told Indee and Maddie how to use the camera. They walked around the classroom and took 87 photos! here are some they took.

Ruby's drawing for her mum.

Geoffrey Bear being a model.

Indee and Abby with some of our class bears.

Tomorrow will be interesting as we keep working on our paintings of dinosaurs, learn about the letters Uu and Ll, count insects and learn to play some more games on the smartboard.