Our dinosaur memory/concentration game.

Today's worksheets: we used pentagons to make stegosaurus plates; Monkey Girl did some great addition on her own and Ballet Girl started a mini-project on her favourite T-rex.

Dinosaur books we have been reading.

This morning the girls had 3 piles of dinosaur worksheets to choose from: reading and writing, maths or fact-file. They worked really hard and Ballet Girl surprised herself with how well her maths is progressing - hooray!

Monkey Girl did some good subtraction work.

The girls spent all afternoon in the paddling pool and chasing bubbles from the bubble machine. It's a hard life...

Panda Girl spent all afternoon in happy raptures :)

Monkey Girl had some fun today with her dinosaur sticker book...

...and Ballet Girl excavated some dinosaur bones (to be continued).

Bank Holiday Monday we took the girls to Tring Natural History Museum - where we checked out some prehistoric bones!

My Darling Panda Girl playing with the dinosaurs.
Today I took the girls out to buy one more dinosaur each to add to their collection. Ballet Girl was delighted to find a pink T.Rex.

I ordered a dinosaur egg for the girls. We put it in water and waited...

When the girls came down for breakfast the next day it had begun to hatch - they were so excited.
Referring to our books we have decided that it is a baby brontosaurus.

Ballet Girl's new vocabulary which she is using to make sentences and dinosaur stories. Monkey Girl is learning them too.

I told the children that we were palaeontologists on a dinosaur dig in South America. I hid some cotton wool buds in some sand and gave the girls a pot and paintbrush each, telling them to be extra careful not to damage the bones.

We took the 'bones' back to the museum and reconstructed the dinosaurs we had unearthed :)

Working hard on their dinosaur worksheets.

I have discovered a cool way to encourage the children to eat their greens! I sewed baby spinach leaves onto a thread and hung it up, telling the children it was a tree and that any passing stegosauruses (stegosauri?!) were welcome to munch on it. All three girls had a fine time crunching away! :)

Over the past 3 days we have put a second layer of papier mache on our dinosaur eggs, painted a base coat and then added a brighter top coat of paint. Hopefully this weekend Papa will be able to varnish them.

This morning we used balloons to make papier mache dinosaur eggs. We made the glue with flour and water and we all got very, very messy!