Showing posts with label dinosaurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinosaurs. Show all posts

Friday, October 6, 2017

School with Letter D



  Moving along on our alphabet journey we have finished with the letter D. Letter  D was fun.  We played games, played with food and got outside.  We are continuing on learning sight words, reading and identifying the letter of the week when we are out and about.


D is for dog.  We don't usually walk the dog but this day we walked him. Poor dog walked miles with us.


He likes to write his letters in the sand on the sidewalk.   He will do this without any prompts from me.


He says, "I spy with my eye a letter d!"  Good job little man. No D is off limits.


Each week he gets new words.  It took us more then a week to have some words figure out.  Here he is writing: is, and, my, the and look.


He can even write dad now based on letters he knows.


Pulled out the clip cards.  Here he clips the lower case letter.  Each clip also has the letters on them.

Food fun was not skipped!


I made some yogurt d's with chocolate chips sprinkled on it and frozen for a cool treat! 

You may think I could have done more I could have played a game with him and to that statement I say...


D is for dominoes! 

Another week down! Another week of learning! He is busy with art and crafts throughout the day and I can't wait to share a project we just finished! 

We as adults are learning everyday or at least something once a week.  What did you learn or teach this week to someone?

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Party Time


        (Photo credit to VLM Facebook page) *


  This past weekend a local museum celebrated a milestone.  The Virginia Living Museum turned the big 5-0!  To complete the party though you need to invite people so they invited the whole community to celebrate!  The admission was pocket change!

  My kids

to get out on a Sunday and we were excited to see a new exhibit!


  This museum is a great visual story of a variety of species that call Virginia home.  Animals ranging from birds to four legged creatures, swimmers to crawlers, scales or fur covered.  You are able to touch critters, see animals in their habitat view the stars and learn along the way!  There's a store to purchase your souvenirs, a planetarium and a outside trail to get plenty of air as you meet more animals outside.



Little ones got to take a peek at what lives in the water.  I'm not sure if they will ever swim again.


The fox was on the move.  Animals that move are so much better for kids to observe versus the sleeping  less actives ones.


Whose paw print is that?  My son had fun touching the prints of animals.  His hand was bigger then some and smaller then some.  Birds have different feet then the fox.  Always having fun and learning while doing it.


The eagles watched us while we watched them.  I love seeing these beautiful majestic birds.

Of course the main event for us was the dinosaurs!  This exhibit was under construction the last time we were here.


The children were able to get a closer look at a couple toddler dinosaurs.  These were strictly look and touch but don't ride.


It takes a lot of patience to dig in a sand box and not play.


There were big and small dinosaurs or maybe it was mom's and babies but I'm not really sure how you tell.


My daughter giving you a size comparison of a leg.


My son giving you a size comparison of a foot print.

Maybe that's not a good enough comparison.  After all I think my kids are pretty short.


Overall we had a fun time celebrating  a great museum on our Sunday afternoon.  Even if we missed the cake!  Don't tell the kids.

*Lol, when I left the statue boy didn't have the banner or hat anymore.


Find our morning about the museum here.


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