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Velociraptor

We did our study of the velociraptor this week, and can I just say I had no idea that it is suspected that they had feathers?  They are hard to draw that way!  We started with some study of some basic facts about Velociraptors, and we looked into our dinosaur encyclopedia to find when and where they lived.






 Then the girls used their water colors to pain a landscape that represented a place the velociraptor could have lived. Molly drew a nest because we learned that velociraptor's were more like birds, and probably lived in nests as well.  Nora painted a tree and a little lake with a fish. Emy painted a big pile of mud because she thinks that dinosaurs love mud.


Nora was having a bit of a rough day, so she was in and out of the school room and missed some of our pictures.  She was having calming down time in her room.

I found these great 3-d wooden puzzles of a couple of dinosaurs at Target for $3 so I grabbed a few.  They are pretty great, but I was surprised by how hard it is to get some of the pieces out of the wood, and then to put them together.  We ended up having to use super glue for some of the pieces, but we do love how our velociraptor turned out! We are loving our study of dinosaurs, there are so many fascinating things to learn!






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