We made dinosaur fossils to enrich our dinosaur inquiry. It was so neat. We mixed coffee grounds, cold coffee, flour, and salt. It made a dough which we rolled out. We used toy dinosaurs, sea shells, star fish and pinecones to imprint in the dough. We let it dry overnight. Now we have our own homemade fossils.
There was so much math happening right under our noses yesterday. Reese and Jena naturally decided to do one to one correspondence with playdough, number tiles and plastic fruit. It was so wonderful to see such amazing student led learning. Andrew was adding lego pieces by himself at the carpet (5 and 3 make 8 Mme B!) and John and Dean counted twigs in French all the way to 19! It is so great to see so much authentic learning happening in our FDK classroom.
Mrs. Shackleton set up two activities to promote our dinosaur inquiry: dinosaur/alphabet soup in the water table and a dinosaur collage with torn up paper the students tore by themselves. Both activities were extremely popular choices and our dinosaur is really scary!
Have a wonderful weekend and we will see you all back on Monday. God Bless!