Thursday, March 6, 2014

Dinosaur in the Snow

                 Buddy time last week took us outside.
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Each big and little buddy partner had a nature bag containing a piece of yarn.  The plan was to walk in the woods finding 5 things the same length as their string but we had had a lot of snow the past few days and the path into the woods wasn’t passable.
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Instead we walked along the fence and found sticks, old leaves and some rocks
                            and pine cones.
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They collected their items in their bag then we made our way up to a sunny
                     spot in the school yard.
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We had a little fun with shadows.  Shaping our buddies to look like dinosaurs. 
        Can you see the tyrannosaurus in the above photo?
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When everyone gathered in our sunny spot I explained that we would use our materials to build a dinosaur skeleton in the snow.  The children began to empty their bags.  The first item was a big rock so we used it as the jaw.
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Continuing to build the skeleton and naming the parts; tail, back bone, claws led to our finished dinosaur.  The snow worked great as a back drop to the darker materials.  It helped us see our dinosaur clearly.