Preschool - Dinosaurs and the Bible - what are we doing?

 I'm always wanting to incorporate the Bible into our themes and/or our themes into lessons and readings from/along with the Bible.  This time it was incorporating the Bible into our theme.  I thankfully found a link for homeschoolshare.com's  Dinosaur and Creation lapbook (not the title, but what it's about).   I found this on delightfullearning.blogspot.com.  Here is our week of Dinosaurs and the Bible!


Sensory/texture box has dried garbanzo and red beans in it.  I put a blue cap from a peanut butter jar filled with blue beads for "water" and a bunch of little dinosaurs.
Science "table" has a game I created.  There are pics of dinosaurs on one side and a pic of what they eat on the other (the answer).  My children choose one card or all three, one labeled herbivore, one carnivore and one omnivore. Then they pick up a card with a dinosaur on it and place it on the big card they think it would go on based on what they think the dinosaur would eat.  They can turn it over right away or wait until they've done them all.  For a younger child (like teeny tot K) they can use it for sorting - turn it over to see what the dino ate and put it on the correct card.  It's a nice open ended activity - sort of - even though there are right and wrong answers, there are various ways to play - it's a child directed activity.
Art - uncooked pasta glued onto lines that, once they have the past glued onto them, will look something like a fossil.  At this moment, my mind is drawing a blank picture of the other art activity we did!
writing center - dinosaur stamps, ink and white paper on Monday, Wednesday was lined paper, various writing mediums and scissors, Thursday - dinosaur templates, white paper and pencils.
Easel - so far this week it's just been large white paper and multiply colors of paint.  We had to finish up the paint in the cups from last week and this week was kind of crazy so it worked.  Next week we'll add more.

I have also changed the things in the math and literacy/writing center boxes.  I try to keep them updated to go with our themes as much as possible.  Sometimes I just put an activity appropriate to that area if I don't have a theme centered one!

 Here is a mini creation book from the homeschoolshare.com's Dinosaur/Creation lapbook.  I can't remember the title of the lapbook though.

 This is a picture of the inside of the book.  J decorated the inside before he knew what to do!  I drew the lines and added the numbers.  Many of the "pictures" inside were little stickers from our folder of stickers.

The picture above is J cutting out pieces to create his own dinosaur.  I think I got this one from delightfullearning.blogspot.com.  Also, there is big brother "N" in the background on the computer.  Behind J are two file boxes I've been going through. In both of them are bags that contain items for our many themes.  I'm getting it organized for two reasons: it needs it and sometime late August, early Sept J will begin the Kindergarten curriculum from My Father's World.  I've been starting to gather things, print things etc. for those themes, many we have, but some will be new.

 In these next two pictures above J is gluing on his pieces to create his dinosaur, he named it Joey!

 This picture here is about lizards since the word dinosaur means "terrible lizard". He cut them out and glued them into a mini book - another from homeschoolshare's lapbook for dinosaur/creation.

The next two pictures above are another mini book, from same place.  This has a picture of a dinosaur on the front and the word dinosaur.  The inside was blank, I wrote in pencil for him to trace: terrible lizard and big.  The meaning of the word and a description.  He, as you can see, chose a green marker to trace.

 The bunch of pictures above are a math game I printed off from delightfullearning.blogspot.com (I think, if not it was a link from there).  I printed them off on construction paper so it would be thicker and able to withstand the paint without soaking through. They rolled the die and what ever number came up, they find it and dot that many.  Example: roll and see a 2 on the die, look for a dino on the paper with that number on it's body, give it two dot stamps with the bingo blotter.  I want to get the ones they make for children, they're smaller and washable paints.  I've had these for a while, they work for now, but are just a little big!  The little's didn't mind, they loved this game.  J of course counted the correct amount in each box.  K, she did her own "counting", but had fun too!  ;)     Also in some of the pictures above are hubby and daughter "A".  They're busy with a business adventure, sort of started by our miss "A"!

 Here they are with the "handwriting" pages.  The dinosaur name is at the bottom for tracing and then there is a picture to color.  I made sure K had her own.   I gave her colored pencils for coloring, she tends to lose the marker caps!

 Here is box 1 that was for Wednesday, but didn't get done - hubby had surgery, so we'll get to these Friday.   Thursday was recovery day for mom and dad, so we did a low key day.  This box has a storybook Bible, a time line page, a paper with his name and the words Creation book.  I numbered the pages inside for him to draw his own pics for the Creation story.

 Box 2 is from that dino/creation lapbook .  There are several pages for a few different countries.  It's meant to be used with an older chid, but I took the picture of the map of the country, cut it out, found some pics to copy, paste and print of Africa (the country for this sheet), I put them in an envelope to go in this box along with the orange construction paper.  He'll be gluing these on to make a page for a book.

 Here in box 3 were two more pages of "handwriting", tracing the words and coloring the dinosaur picture.

 In box 4 a math activity.  As you can see there are number along the left and boxes extending to the right.  He was to stamp each box according to the number at the beginning of the row.  He did half of this Wednesday before I left to take hubby to have surgery.  We'll get it finished.

 These were in box 5, they are to create a dinosaurs colors book.  He chose to color both red. These were the only things he completed Wednesday before I left.

 Here is our sensory box filled with the beans and dinosaurs!

 Here is our little teeny tot - she really enjoys our sensory box!  She dumped the "water" dish a few times, thankfully in the box!

 Here is a picture of J with the dinosaur math stamping activity.

 Here he is coloring in with that red marker his color book.

 Teeny just staring down into the box..not sure why!  :)

 J creating another masterpiece at the easel.

 Here is J after observing the seeds we planted, two weeks ago? (I'd have to check my old posts!).  The whole family is very excited about our sprouts!

 This is box 6 from his workboxes - the puzzle was not put togther, he put it together.  He did this one first!  This was from Monday.

Here are the little's checking out the "garden" - we will be planting them outside when it's warm and they're strong enough.

 Here is K and a part o f J.  I was trying to get her alone, but he really wanted to be in the picture!

 Here is little teeny tot at our writing/literacy center stamping away.  She enjoys most of the activities I put out and usually visits all of them several times.

Here they are "working" away!  Writing and cutting and just busy, busy, busy!

 Teeny, stamping again - in a blank book this time.  I had given her the crayons too.

 Here is teeny's creation page.  I just printed it from someplace,cut up the pages, folded the orange paper, numbered it and then gave her a glue stick.  She did this while J did his creation booklet.

Here are J and K enjoying playdough and number "cookie" cutters from our math center.

Workboxes have been slow this week.  J did all of his boxes on Monday, but Wednesday's boxes he completed two, started two.  I'm hoping to get to the rest on Friday sometime - but not bedtime again!  We have a field trip to learn about Maple sugaring.  We'll see what we can accomplish!