Dear Parents,
Much has been happening during the course of studying dinosaurs. Our egg hatched a lovely baby triceratops.
Here are a few pictures of our dino herd.
Happy Birthday to Bella!
I thought you might also like to see how high the ice cream cones are getting. Wow! Next week we'll be adding on . . . . And then there's the Digraph Express full of cargo (pink stickies have their names on them as we pass off a digraph).We learned a lot about Leprechauns today. They are pranksters. One turned our milk and pancakes green before school even started. Jocelyn didn't catch one in her trap over night and while we were singing Happy Birthday to Bella, that same little man apparently went potty in our toilet and didn't flush his green pee! (I think that is the first time I ever wrote "pee." Please forgive me.) The kids asked me to take a picture, but I figured you have enough of an imagination to visualize it.
After reading several Saint Patrick's Day books, we decided to make a leprechaun trap. We KNOW one is somewhere in this house, so it's just a matter of the perfect trap. I think the kids did a good job coming up with the idea, I truly had not planned out what the trap would look like, how it would work, etc. They decorated this particular box with rainbows and clover, put shiny jewels in it and then laid a marshmallow trail. He can not possibly resist this trap!
Next week we will complete our study of dinosaurs with a dino dig as we learn about fossils. I hope you have enjoyed learning about this as much as we have. We've learned about dinosaurs that lived in the sea, on land, in cold and warm climates and, of course, we've all been dinosaurs. If you haven't heard it yet, ask your child about elasmosaurus.
You take a turtle and a snake
put them together
and what do they make?
an elasmosaurus, elasmosuarus,
the giant of the sea
Thank you for sending your little one each day. It is a delight to see them.
Megan Millington
