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Psittacosaurus

With our heightened interest in all things Chinese these weeks before Chinese New Year I decided that the next week of dinosaurs should all be found in CHINA! So we start with Psittacosaurus that I hunted down through our iPad App Fantastic Dinosaurs HD. This was one of the listed that has the 360 degree option with one of the images. This early Cretaceous herbivore was one of the first horned dinosaurs which could have potentially walked on two or four legs. This is a rather unusual dinosaur as it has been rediscovered to have had quills on its tail! Thus our colouring page HERE has the funky tail as does the illustrations (that Emanuel says are CUTE) on the app.

Our video is from youTube and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

And now, of course… LINKS! Though I must warn you… most do NOT deal with the quills. So here goes… EnchantedLearning and their “parrot lizard” information HERE has a very interesting profile image showing the beak like nose and mouth. Emanuel always is happy when Kidsdinos.com covers our dinosaur. He just loves their charts HERE. The American Museum of Natural History has a great picture of the cheek horns HERE. Animal Planet has a page about our dinosaur HERE. There is a bit of a spooky action shot on the Jurassic Park page HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a list of facts HERE. Wiki has  their page HERE, and I am including an article that went over Emanuel’s head but is informative about the quills HERE.

Quills

Mid Week and Onward!

January 16-17

At home for 2 days but definitely not completely idle! There is still much to learn and time to spend with Aunty Karyn during her visit. So of course I must share! We are a little constrained with the need to be home with the kids and Ken working long into the evening but I think we made do. I do have to admit, the bulk of our time was spent sitting around just hanging out together… much like we used to up in Alberta… I really needed that… quiet, productive crafting (on my side – slippers) time with a good FEMALE friend…

I managed to snag a great dinosaur related app on a day when it was free thanks to Facebook. With over 120 dinosaurs Emanuel was in dinosaur picture HEAVEN. Some of them can even be moved 360 degrees!

Enjoying the dinosaurs

We had a new Art for Kids illustration to create – a rose… something to practice before Valentine’s day!

Zander’s rose

Gavin and his flower

Of course Ken finally found some time the next morning to help the boys with some beautiful snowflakes. Still rather square but I am so impressed by their cutting skills. And I do love a pretty snowflake!

Working with Daddy

So pretty

Trinity spent BOTH days working with Karyn to start AND complete a workbook! She wore out Aunty before she was done the day before and pushed through to finish the next… a serious learning machine.

Proud completion

With an evening with Ken at home and our being home for the day… well we had fun, we learned and we simply spent time together. And honestly, that was more than enough for me!

Rocking Sheep!

With the “Esther frog”

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