Preparations are underway for the annual homeschoolers' student project expo. Princess is doing her report on mime and plans to be in character for the night. Cookie is doing T-Rex. Gameboy, being in school now, gets a pass. But I'm going to make him man the registration table.
Once again, I am seeing the benefit of teaching the kids how to make display boards look nice. I didn't help much with Princess' this year. She remembers what to do.
Cookie's report will feature several hands-on displays. We made a papier mache replica of a life-sized T-Rex tooth. We painted it brown to look like a fossil.
Did you know there is little fossil record for T-Rexes? The book we read said there are 11 T-Rex skeletons. I don't know if that's the most recent information, but compare that with hundreds of duckbilled dinosaurs, for example, and the fossil record for T-Rex is slim. No T-Rex egg has been found, but we can hypothesize they laid eggs because similar dinosaurs did. Also, some dinosaur fossils show evidence of having feathers. There is no evidence of this with T-Rex, but wouldn't that be cool? How scary would a feather-covered T-Rex be? We decided to find out.
Turns out, a feathery T-Rex is freaky! We have the plastic dinosaur, glue gun and craft-store bag of feathers to prove it.
We might have people vote on which one is scarier.
Preparations are underway for the annual homeschoolers' student project expo. Princess is doing her report on mime and plans to be in character for the night. Cookie is doing T-Rex. Gameboy, being in school now, gets a pass. But I'm going to make him man the registration table.
Once again, I am seeing the benefit of teaching the kids how to make display boards look nice. I didn't help much with Princess' this year. She remembers what to do.
Cookie's report will feature several hands-on displays. We made a papier mache replica of a life-sized T-Rex tooth. We painted it brown to look like a fossil.
Did you know there is little fossil record for T-Rexes? The book we read said there are 11 T-Rex skeletons. I don't know if that's the most recent information, but compare that with hundreds of duckbilled dinosaurs, for example, and the fossil record for T-Rex is slim. No T-Rex egg has been found, but we can hypothesize they laid eggs because similar dinosaurs did. Also, some dinosaur fossils show evidence of having feathers. There is no evidence of this with T-Rex, but wouldn't that be cool? How scary would a feather-covered T-Rex be? We decided to find out.
Turns out, a feathery T-Rex is freaky! We have the plastic dinosaur, glue gun and craft-store bag of feathers to prove it.
We might have people vote on which one is scarier.
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Now that is one fabulous mime!! Looks like a great time.
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