Day 17

Today's theme was Dinosaur Lifestyle. Before the kids got there, I dug out this alligator bean bag toss game we have that someone put together last summer. Then, I made a setup for pin the horn on the triceratops. I drew the face on a poster, and then put some tape on a paper towel tube for the horn. We discussed eating habits, adaptations, and prey/predator ideas in our lesson this morning. I helped lead this one. After our lesson, we played the two games that I had prepared in the morning. The kids were having a lot of fun with them and didn't want to stop.

Then after a bathroom break, I taught the kids the bullfrog song, which they really enjoyed, too. They caught onto the words after a few times around too, so I wasn't singing alone the whole time. Cole started singifng along during four first round, and then Drew was leading it the last time we played it before checkout. I told his mom to ask him about it. It is a fun little game. Mason won quite a few of the rounds we played. I actually made it down to the final two one round... it was just me and Cole staring down as we waited for the kerplunk. I can still picture the look of "intimidation" on his face.

The kids also got to feed the goats today in the petting zoo area, and play on the playground a bit more. I also took individual photos of everyone, so we can send home a group photo and an individual photo with each of them at the end of the week. Another game was "What time is it Mr. T-Rex"... if you've ever heard of "What time is it Mr. Wolf/ Fox", you'll know what I'm talking about, and if not and you're curious, ask me about it sometime. We played it inside in the morning for a while, cause the kids were really having fun with it, then we played it outside for a bit this afternoon.

We made dinosaur paper plates this morning, and then crumple art this afternoon. The animal presentations today were a ferret and a baby alligator. I remember hearing one of the boys say "It's soft as a pillow" after petting the ferret. Brody had a little nosebleed today, but no big deal. Something like that was bound to happen one of these days. Brody is one of the most well behaved kids we have.