D for Dinosaur

Nastia taught this lesson.  Now, a word on Nastia: she types out her lesson plans completely and wonderfully.  I almost feel I should just post her lesson plan with a few pictures taken during the actual time because they are just that complete.  I keep meaning to at least type what I intend to do… but my lesson plans come out best as a few scribbles on a piece of scratch paper.  At any rate, because I feel posting her lesson plans would be cheating (and make me feel bad for not being able to do the same for mine) you’ll just have to make do with my brief synopsis.
D is for dinosaurs who don’t eat donuts.  That’s what I got out of the lesson (because my visuals were just to giggle-able to ignore)
She read Ten Little Dinosaurs, sang a dinosaur song (see below) and had clips from Dinosaur Train (Cairn’s second favorite show right now).  They talked about different kinds of dinosaurs… specifically herbivores and carnivores.  The kids (only Cairn and Nik this day) got to be a dinosaur and look for appropriate food.  Cairn was a T-Rex and looked for pictures of meat while Nikoli was an herbivore that got to munch on all the plants
For the activities they made letter D’s out of playdoh and stamped fossils into them, and made sandpaper letter D dinosaurs:

I like that in the background of the fossil D picture you can see the grass bouquet Cairn picked for me.