We have been doing a lot of different things in EE5 that we want to share with everyone.  We started out thinking that we would start a Gardening Project, but all of a sudden we were hearing about dinosaurs and decided to set up a Dinosaur Museum in our Dramatic Play Center.  Awesome experience so far.  

We have a lot of things going on in our museum.  We have workers who help customers and decide when the museum is open or closed.   (The lanyards around their necks tell you what each child's job is.)

We have a dinosaur habitat with dinosaur nests and eggs with babies in them.  
We have an excavation site where our paleontologists can dig up fossils using tools.  

We made our own fossils, which will find their way into our excavation site.

We have done some fun dinosaur art.  (We continue our obsession / love affair with tape!)

There is a lot of writing and reading and research going on for sure.  

In other news, we have been taking a lot of different materials outside for special activities.  We bathed the baby dolls in the sunshine this week....

We took a writing activity outside, which morphed into tracing shadows onto the paper.  

We also had a wonderful Valentine's Day Party in conjunction with EE4.  We set up several activities in each classroom and the children were free to move from room to room however they chose--this was so much fun!

We started out with an obstacle course that we had to go through holding a friend's hand.  We helped each other get through it.  

We had some yummy Valentine's Day Punch.

We played a game where we predicted how many candy hearts we could stack up, then we tested out our theories, then we ATE them!

We had a valentine making station.

We had a dance party.

We made special heart necklaces.

We played Valentine's Day Bingo with M&Ms.  Guess what we did with them when we finished the game?

We decorated cookies.  YUMMY!

 We played Ms. Amie's favorite game ever called Musical Hearts.  There are hearts on the floor, but not enough for everybody, so when the music stops, we all have to hug so everyone can fit onto the hearts.  Everybody wins this game!

We took silly pictures with our friends.

We still have a lot of fun things planned for our Dinosaur Study so keep your eyes open for our work!