The Making of a Dinosaur Museum

The past few weeks have flown by! We have been busy transforming our classroom into a Dinosaur Museum to share our learning with our friends and family.  

Together, we came up with a list of different areas or exhibits that our Museum would need and got straight to work.

We added leaves to our spring tree so the herbivore dinosaurs would have something to eat and created waterfalls for drinking.

After looking around our classroom a little more, we noticed that our house corner did not fit in to what we were trying to do.  We painted a huge mural to help make that area look more like a museum instead of a classroom.

We kept our learning going and really looked closely at dinosaur fossils and skeletons.  We started by making small skeletons out of Q-tips which made creating our much bigger version a lot easier.

One of the most exciting things that has happened during the creation of our Museum is all the collaboration and team work! If you were to walk into the kindergarten classroom you would see students working together to create, solve problems and share ideas!

The morning students thought we needed to have coprolite  (dinosaur poop) in our Museum and the afternoon students worked together to create a dinosaur nest. 

 

We have also collaborated with some very talented people from our school. For our upcoming Dino Day, we wanted to make our own Dinosaur movie. In the movie, we travel back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth.  

Mrs. Jones and one of her grade 3 students modelled how to write an exciting movie script. The criteria for this piece of writing was it had to have a "hook" at the beginning, three facts about a dinosaur and then an ending.  This grade 3 student was so excited to help, that he took it upon himself to write  his own example to share with us! 

  

We also used Mr. V's music talents to help create the soundtrack to our movie.  He showed us how to use GarageBand and then we experimented with different sounds effects and music clips to create our own unique track. It was amazing how fast the students picked up on how the music had patterns in it and what sounded good and what did not. 

 

 

A great big THANK YOU to everyone who helped in the writing, editing, rehearsing, filming and putting together of our Dinosaur Movie!  We are so lucky to have such a great team at Linwood School!

Past Kinder Dino Experts (grade 5's) helping rehearse our lines

Another big Thank You to Miss Versteeg for teaching us an amazing Dinosaur Song that we will perform during our Dino Day Celebration!