Dinosaurs and Volcanoes

Recently we spent two weeks exploring the world of dinosaurs and volcanoes. Zoey requested this so I really wanted to see what we could learn together. The curriculum Five in a Row that we are using this year does not have any lesson plans for dinosaurs or volcanoes so I was on my own with this one. I got a TON of books from the library and even a DVD for children about volcanoes. So our journey began.

We read book after book after book, fiction and non-fiction. Lately Zoey has been only wanting to hear stories and does not want anything to do with non-fiction but when it came to these subjects she was all ears, especially with the volcano books. There was an especially good book that was titled You Wouldn't Want to Live in Pompeii by John Malam. This combined telling a story but taught many things about volcanoes too. Here is a link to the book, Click here. 

Some other fun things we did were to make dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs which we later painted.

The girls were really concentrating when painting the dinosaur eggs and they came out pretty cute. We did the dinosaur and volcano unit for two weeks and Zoey is still asking for more books on the subjects. Guess she really knows what she wants to learn about.

Thanks as always for reading. I hope you enjoy sharing our adventures with us.