Ever wonder who came BEFORE the Tyrannosaurus Rex? Well, wonder no longer… The Eotyrannus is early in the tyrannus family. Found on the Isle of Wight it is one of the earliest known and most raptor like in looks. The “Dawn Tyrant” is definitely a swift and fearsome predator.
We have TWO videos to share, the first from I’m a Dinosaur… And another from the IW Council about a brand new display at the Dinosaur Isle Museum… Quite the phenomenon at the Isle of Wight. Now for our links… Dinosaurs.about.com covers this carnivore HERE. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE. Prehistoric Wildlife has a page HERE. Apparently Primeval included this dinosaur in its series HERE. I love the image of the dinosaur on the Dino Directory page HERE. Wiki of course has their article HERE. And our colouring page is from deviantArt by an amazing artist… Zakafreakarama HERE. You can find his main artist page HERE.
The “Oak Tree Lizard” is called so due to the fact that its teeth look like oak leaves. The Dryosaurus is a Cretaceous period dinosaur found in North American and Tanzania. This herbivore was one of the first bird footed dinosaurs to evolve. With its beak, back teeth and 5 fingered front legs it was quite the dinosaur! Now for our I’m a Dinosaur video:
There are a few links to share with this dinosaur. Let’s start with our deviantArt artist Zakafreakarma who created the colouring page we used for Emanuel. You can find it HERE. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a brief page HERE. Jurassic Park has a little picture of our herbivore HERE. Animal Planet discusses our dinosaur HERE. National Park Service has a great picture of the skeleton of our dinosaur HERE. KidsDinos.com has charts and map HERE. And of course, Wiki has their article HERE.
Friday marked the end of our St. Patrick’s Day unit with a video (one of 3 in a series though interest did not hold for all 3 this year) on Hurling, a popular sport in Ireland.
I am so proud of the boys where BOTH managed 100% on their spelling tests! Clean slate on Monday with all new words is always a good thing.
Emanuel used two wonderful sets of dinosaur heads as his Friday colouring pages. Both by Zakafreakarama. HERE and HERE. We are so glad we came upon this artist on deviantArt. His works is so clean!
We finished our chapter book – Lindsay the Luck Fairy… AND did copy work from the Julie Andrews poetry book.
We did a layered book with this one
With our copy work.
We had all that snow coming down so the twins decided they must work on building something grander than the neighbour kids… it is amazing how sticky the snow was!
Busy Boys
We finally found time for our finger painting craft. Thanks to Art for Kids!
We are so not dirty hands people other than in dirt so this was a stretch, but fun
We had to make orange too, so had a great conversation about colour mixing.
Completed
Saturday was an at home day, after a bunch of snow coming down and the weather warming and cooling so much it was just too icy to go places or have people over. With only 2 weekends left before Nana and Baba return we were hoping we could get in some more visiting. While people do come over here when Ken’s parents are here, it is nice to have that feeling of just us and friends once in a while. The kids are excited that they will be home soon though!
We finished up our special poster for St. Patrick’s Day. I think we did rather good job! Assembly is half the fun and we had stickers to add and markers to write words. Now we move onto Easter and a lapbook…
We added a few more words after this photo but a poster to be proud of!
Of course we set our leprechaun trap!
Trap is set
That brings us to St. Patrick’s Day with our sneaky Leprechaun being a CANADIAN one! It left our dear ones quarters AND a Coffee Crisp bar!
So close
I lucked out and we found 3 green shirts of varying shades… add to that two that we picked up for the girls and we had some rather spiffy looking children. Trinity even wore her green headband. And yours truly a green shirt. We were VERY festive.
All in Green (Zander left)
Cheese
Ken actually spoiled them with daddy time and they all played together on Minecraft. We have been trying more and more to make it so Ken is not just around morning and bedtime and seeing just the disciplinarian part of stuff. This working out of home has definitely been an adjustment.
Supper with a touch of green
And with that we have covered St. Patrick’s Day, except for a follow up on Monday and definitely had some quality family time! I, of course, will follow this post with the resource post AND link all the pages back to it like I have other. I hope these pages come in handy to someone!
