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We have had a great week in the Superstars! We learned about tectonic plates, volcanoes and more dinosaurs. We erupted our own volcanoes and painted a dinosaur mural. We worked together in small groups and we worked on our own. We even had the opportunity to read to a therapy dog who loves to listen to stories!

Learning to work independently and as part of a group are important skills that we learn in kindergarten. We give the children opportunities every day to practice them.

It has been a very exciting week in the Superstars! Monday, one of our parent's brought in fossils for us to investigate. Every child went home with a fossil that was millions of years old. The children helped reveal the fossils encased in shale using a hammer and screwdriver and then cleaned it off with a soft brush. This was exciting for all of us!

Then we started work on our books. The children dictated stories about their stuffed critters that were sewn by one of our parents. The stories are wonderful and the kids did a great job of illustrating their stories.

Friday we visited the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. We learned more about dinosaurs and fossils there and then had lunch in the HUB. Finally, we invited the parents and other Seabury students to visit our class to read our books. The kids are so proud of their work and so are we! Thanks to everyone to came in and read our books and listened to some of the kids read. It was a great ending to the week!

Kindergartners love dinosaurs!

It's so good to be back!

We are fully immersed in dinosaurs! This has been a very exciting week! We started the week learning about the water cycle and later in the week we had a presentation on the water web. We are so lucky to have visitors that come into our class to teach us about our environment.

Our other area of study starting this week is dinosaurs. Each child made a wood puzzle of a dinosaur of their choice. Then the Navigators helped us do computer research on our chosen dinosaurs. We wrote short papers about what we had learned and then the Explorers helped us measure the length of our dinosaurs on the playground. Friday, we made a dinosaur habitat. We had lots of opportunities to introduce new vocabulary terms: environment, habitat, sources, research, and territory to name a few. We'll be visiting the Burke Museum on Friday to further our study of dinosaurs and fossils.

(the child sitting by herself on the playground isn't lost, she is sitting on the tail of the Apatosaurus!)