Learning about dinosaurs was a lot of fun! I got to use a lot of ideas I've been wanting to try from Pinterest. Hopefully we can do the field trip in a couple of months--I would love to take the kids to the museum. I wanted to share my highlights from last week.
This is a picture of cracking open the "fossil rocks". (I had to hold the safety goggles on so they wouldn't slip off their little heads.) They loved the surprise of what was inside--each one had a different dinosaur or bug or ocean animal.
We used the bingo markers to "stomp" on the letters like dinosaurs. The ink was a little messier than I would have guessed, though. I just threw them away because the ink was so wet and Karma saw them in the garbage and was like "hey?!" Don't you love when that happens? Look at cute Aspen's fist in this picture, she's all intense!
They practiced tracing the letter "G" with a wet q-tip. They did really well this, too--all them did it really slow and focused. I'm definitely doing this again!
I loved how the moveable dinosaurs craft turned out. They had so much fun making making them. Karma even talked about it in her blessing on the snack!
And to end with my favorite picture of the week...this is all the preschoolers watching a puppet show that Miranda and her dad performed for them. They used dinosaur puppets and talked about how dinosaurs went extinct.
I wanted to take the kids to the carnival but Jeremy had to work late, so I took them by myself, after an already long day. I knew it would be worth it once we got there. We all enjoyed it until it was time to go, but both kids were overly tired. (We didn't even stay that long or late...) Even though both had a meltdown before we arrived home, I was glad we went and so we went back again a couple days later, this time with Dad, which made things SOOOO much easier, and let them ride a couple more rides. Looking at the pictures, though, I wonder if they really enjoyed it as much as I thought...
This is Miranda's first ride--a roller coaster. She had huge, surprised eyes the whole ride and was griping the handle bar. Notice the girls behind her loving it, and the girl in front of her, who is huge--maybe it wasn't a good choice for a first timer... 
She said afterwards that her favorite ride was the "car". She took it so seriously, making sure she was "driving" (ie wiggling the steering wheel back and forth) the whole time. 
This was Brad's only ride besides in the stroller :) I would have done more, but he didn't enjoy this, and I had to hold him before it was over. Next year...
When we went back with Dad they seemed to have a little more fun! Dad's always make things much more fun, don't they?
This is Christopher "Critter" Groscost. Ever since winter/spring this year, Critter had had a lot of ear infections and finally had tubes put in his ears in March. He still wasn't returning back to his cheerful self, though, and his skin seemed to look a little gray colored. The next trip to the doctor included testing his iron levels in his blood and lead to the discovery that he has cancer.
