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A New Week A New Theme

For all resource links please check out the entry “Saint Patrick’s Day Resources“.

March 4-5

With the Platypus behind us and Dr. Seuss well celebrated it is time to move onto the next series of themes… World Book Day is the 7th and we are starting to create the pieces for our St. Patrick’s Day poster (17th). With all the resources and options out there for the green themed day I am going to make a specific resource page separate from the weekly entries like I have been doing lately with other subjects.

Because of our busy weekend and the ending of TWO major projects in such great time I decided that we would spend the bulk of our time on Wild Kratts episodes. We got a DVD set from the library and the boys completed FOUR animals!

Pj Wild Kratts day

Crocodile… a surprisingly AMAZING mother!

The beaver… reminiscent of my education in Canada as a child!

Common worm… kinda cool!

Bass

Trinity and Echo have found the joy in playing dress up. I have started our collection of things, old Halloween costumes etc… that is where the crowns will live once the novelty wears off!

Dressed up

Their afternoon was a MINECRAFT afternoon… Minimal arguments and lots of creativity.

Minecraft

Tuesday was a definite snow morning. While not a full out raging storm snow just keeps coming down. Enough that over where the Novaks live it was a snow day, so too bad a weather for Darcy and Aidan to come collect the snow pants that accidentally came home with us Sunday night. Perfect weather for the twins to be in charge of shoveling at least the walk and some of the driveway.

Hard at work

We had a book from NetGalley to review – A Promise is a Promise by Robert Munsch. An absolute favourite Canadian author of ours. You can read the kids’ thoughts on it HERE.

We started our St. Patrick’s Day themed books on Tuesday… Shannon and the World’s Tallest Leprechaun by Sean Callahan.

Starting our books

And… St. Patrick’s Day by Mari. C. Schuh.

Getting into the festive spirit

We have started our worksheets and crafty bits as well. I will go back and link my resources at the top of this blog. If you want a specific link before I do that please feel free to contact me!

Not so physical treasures

Leprechaun paper dolls… I was surprised at how… curvy… the girl was!

So we have started our green phase… I am actually enjoying my hunt for resources. Making these separate blog entries and having it all organized just feels GOOD!

Big smiles and blue eyes

Baryonyx… a Rather unique Dinosaur…

Whose name reminds me of a cleaning product! BUT that is not what is amazing. This theropod existed in the Early Cretaceous period in Europe and England where it was the ONLY fish eating dinosaur known to date! With its crocodile like head and long claws it is has more teeth than a Tyrannosaurs Rex and is tailor made to hunt at the edge of lakes and rivers for fish. In fact, a fossilized skeleton was found with fish remains partially digested where its stomach would have been! Very cool! 

Emanuel especially enjoyed this one with its very unique features and characteristics. We have 2 videos to share today off youTube. Emanuel has been choosing his dinosaurs from the I’m a Dinosaur list so I will start with that one. The other has more actual data and images of fossils. I hope they are helpful!


And now for our links! I will start with the one connected to the Natural Museum who were involved in the unearthing of the original amazing fossilized skeleton HERE. Jurassic Park Wikia has their page HERE, apparently this dinosaur was showcased or mentioned on a Jurassic Park movie! Dinosaurs.about.com has TWO pages on this dinosaur. A point form page HERE, and a 10 questions page HERE. EnchantedLearning has a page on this fish eating dino but surprisingly without a real picture or diagram HERE. Kidsdinos.com has a good timeline and map HERE. KidsDigDinos has a great fact sheet with a knowledge question HERE. Don’t forget Wiki’s usual dry article HERE. And of course our colouring page can be found HERE.

All 3 learning together

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