DINOSAURS!...

This past week I did a dinosaur study with Boo.  She LOVED it.  She has enjoyed reading about dinosaurs for a year or two now, so the study was a nice break from the everyday ABCs.  We studied books, enjoyed a huge poster with 20+ types of dinosaurs listed, drew pictures, made a diorama (shadowbox) and even made fossils from scratch!

To wrap up the lesson, we took a visit to the Tellus Science Museum up in Cartersville where they have an entire section devoted to dinosaur fossils. Both the kids enjoyed the museum, as did Tom and I however...personally I am looking forward to a possible family trip to the Creation Museum (http://creationmuseum.org/) up in KY next year.   While doing this study and visiting the museum, I found myself constantly saying that science and the bible don't always agree.  It will be awesome to take my children to a museum that shows science/history from a biblical point of view.

All in all, two thumbs up for the study.  Bailey said it was most definitely dino-terrific!  :0)

She made this fossil from a kit (you mix the plaster, pour it
into a mold and then paint the pieces when dry and lay
it out as shown in the booklet).  This fossil is of a triceratops.

Making the diorama

It was awesome for her to stand next to a fossil and see how large
these creators really were!

Learning about electricity and missing Popo here...

Hello baby blues..

Digging for fossils

The museum lets you take home one (very) small fossil...
most of them are ( probably shark) teeth.  Others are replica fossil pieces.