Dance Party & Dinosaur Bones!

The past week, I have introduced some fun group dances in my class. For the most part, they have been a big hit! We've done the chicken dance, the hokey pokey, and attempted a modified macarena. While I was at Target yesterday, I saw a couple of kids dance music cds, so I decided to get them. They have some great stuff on there! I tried out the cha-cha slide today, which also went over quite well! I know we'll be ready for Soul Train really soon!

In other news, we have also been continuing our unit on dinosaurs. Monday, we made stuffed dinosaurs that turned out really cute! We also painted "dinosaur bones" for the big bone hunt! The bones were actually dog biscuits. Some of the other teachers thought it was a great idea, in fact, one of them wound up with the extra dog biscuits! I'm glad they were put to good use!

Today was the big event. I had wanted to hide the bones outside, but it was raining. That nixed that idea. Instead, I hid them around the classroom. I made them wait until after calendar time, snack and dance time before sending them to find the bones. I gave each of them a paper lunch sack and sent them on their way. Some of them were rather well hidden, so if I saw that someone was having trouble finding bones, I'd point them towards some others. Everyone loved it and they all got a prize for their efforts!