My Fruitful Life: Week 12: My Father's World K

D is for Dinosaurs! Big and small, God made them all! Last week we studied dinosaurs and had a lot of fun! Blue Rock loves dinosaurs so this was an extra special week. I considered moving this unit to December since we have free tickets to Dinosaur World to use in December but seeing how busy December is, I'm not sure we'll be able to make it so we're going to keep going in the order of our curriculum.

Verses: Genesis 1:1 (NIV): In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Psalm 24:1 (NIV): The earth is the LORD's and everything in it; the world, and all who live in it.

Theme: Big and small, God made them all!

Poem: "Five Little Dinosaurs" that sounds the same as "Five Little Monkey's"

When I purchased My Father's World Kindergarten curriculum, I also bought The Wonders of God's World Dinosaur Activity Book by Earl and Bonita Snellenberger. This week rather than doing work in Developing the Early Learner 2, we just did work from our dinosaur activity book.

Monday: Blue Rock started off the week with his picture cards page which features the letter "d." I introduced our memory verses and we talked about dinosaurs. We read the poem for the week which he knew since he knows "Five Little Monkey's." Then we talked about what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur and how a man named Sir Richard Owen invented the word dinosaur in 1841. Then we talked about God creating dinosaurs like He did all the other animals. We talked about fossils and how fossils are formed when a body, such as the dinosaur's, was trapped by layers of sediment laid down by the Flood's water. Soft body parts decayed, but the bones remained. Then he pretended to be a paleontologist and rather than "dig" he "cut" a part some bones and put together a dinosaur puzzle. I helped him paste it. Then we read What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? by John Morris and Ken Ham. This is a great book about dinosaurs from Creation Scientists.

Picture Cards Page

Cutting the picture cards

Cutting out the dinosaur bones

Constructing the dinosaur

He wanted me to help him paste the bones on the page and he took my picture

The dinosaur is done!

Tuesday: Blue Rock seemed to be catching a slight cold so we didn't go to ladies' class this morning. I don't want to chance him passing on his sniffles to anyone. We took it pretty easy today. Thankfully by the end of the day he seemed to be doing fine. Lots of fresh foods full of Vitamin C and D. Today he did his handwriting page for D and 8, colored some dinosaurs as we learned more about them, and he wanted to play with his pretend money. We went over the coins and dollar bills. We also played let's make this amount. So we'd take a quarter and see how many other coins it would take to make a quarter, two dimes and a nickle, five nickles, twenty-five pennies, etc.

Wednesday: Today was lots of fun. Our biggest event was making dinosaur soap. We bought our supplies yesterday and that was the first thing Blue Rock wanted to do after breakfast. Our soaps turned out nicely. Then he did a dinosaur math page, a word page, where he cut out the words and matched them to the right picture. He got all of the words right. Then we did the ladder blends and he started spelling a few words by sounding them out with the few letters that were used. I was impressed! Last he made a dinosaur magnet.

Homemade dinosaur soap

We made 10 bars of soap!

Dinosaur math page

Word page

Blend ladder

Cutting out his dino magnet

Dino magnet is on the fridge

Thursday: This morning Blue Rock did his ladder blends and spelled and wrote some words. He made a paper bag dinosaur and this afternoon got a surprise gift of some dinosaur stamps. He loved them! He had a late night from church last night so I let him sleep in and then I had to get blood work done this morning so we missed our science co-op. However, this afternoon our co-op had a soap making class, so I knew we'd get to join our friends then. We split the younger boys and girls into two groups. I helped monitor the boys. They made some fun soaps that smell like gingerbread. The girls made strawberry smelling soap. The high schoolers did real soap using lye and had a chemistry lesson. It's neat to be part of a church homeschool group that does some fun activities.

After doing some blends he wrote the words "sad" and "nut"

Stuffing his dinosaur

He wanted to give his dino a long tail

Watching the soap base melt

One of his sweet friends from church

Adding brown color to the soap mixture

One of his fabulous babysitters

Dinosaur stamping!

Friday: Blue Rock started off the morning with stamping dinosaurs on a picture I made for him. Then he drew four pictures and wrote the words under the picture for what he drew. He's becoming quite the artist. Although coloring and drawing are not his favorite things to do. He'll even tell you that. We met some friends for lunch and a play date. I was going to take him to the museum to see the dinosaur bones and let him dig for some but he didn't want to go. He said dinosaurs scared him. That was new to learn. So we went home and I made us some delicious pumpkin yogurt milkshakes. That evening we went to the annual Greek Festival in town. We had another wonderful week of school. Our weekend was even more busy with two birthday parties and lots of fun.