What a great time we had on Monday! All of the materials for making fossils were placed on two large tarps on the floor. After I made sure the sand was the right consistency and filled the bottom of their containers about 2” deep, the children lightly packed and smoothed the sand. They then experimented with arranging different objects on the sand- small toy dinosaurs, play bones, and other objects. The boys firmly pushed the objects into the sand and carefully lifted them out leaving an imprint. The plaster of Paris was then mixed and carefully poured into the imprints. We will let them dry until next Monday and then unveil them.
We also watched the Reading Rainbow movie Digging Up Dinosaurs. The children were in awe at the number and size of bones at the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado http://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm.
Next Monday we will continue work on our dinosaur books and check our fossils.
This has been such a fun program! The children are a terrific group! They have so much interest in the topic and really contribute to the activities each week.
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