Pre-K Dig for Fossils and Dinosaur Bones!

Pre-K have been paleontologists for the past few weeks!  They have been digging for fossils.  At first we weren't sure exactly what a fossil was, but then we read that fossils are the remains of plants and animals that lived long ago.  
We looked at real fossils!

We tried to identify what type of fossil we were looking at.

We drew a picture of the fossil in our fossil book.

Now to dig for our own fossils!

The goggles keep the sand out of our eyes!

Digging for fossils.

Look what I found!

Are there any fossils left?

We're making our own fossils with play dough.

I made so many.

I'm hiding this one.

Building with dinosaurs

Dinosaur families.

A BIG dinosaur floor puzzle.

These dinosaur bones were a little harder to figure out.  It was like a puzzle! The bones were T-Rex and Triceratops bones.  And we had a new tool...a brush to gently move the sand away from our dinosaur bones.

Oh these goggles!

Look at all the footprints!

Dinosaur tracks.

Pre-K Hunts for Fossils

Pre-K have become paleontologists!  We looked closely at real fossils and noticed some that looked like shells and some that looked like plants.   

We love using science tools to look at the fossils...

It's important to draw and record our finds
just like real paleontologists!

The dinosaur bone puzzle is a little tricky!

We made our own fossil imprints in the
play dough.

On the dinosaur dig we found skulls and 
other fossils and then drew them in our fossil book!

So many dinosaurs!