This term SK have been learning all about dinosaurs! We have researched their names, features, environments, characteristics and evolution… we’re pretty much dinosaur experts!
This week, we used an art book to teach us how to draw and paint our favourite dinosaurs. We discovered you have to draw them in steps, starting from the head, then you add the neck, body and legs. Of course, paleontologists cannot be 100% sure what colours each species of dinosaur was, so we made our own interpretations.
After completing our pencil drawings, we took the time to mix water colour paints and carefully decorate our dinosaurs. Can you see the stripes, spots and patterns in our pictures?
At first, we thought we were just doing an art activity, then we realised that we were actually practising our fine motor skills as we carefully mixed and painted our water colours. Would you believe we practised them again when we cut our dinosaurs out using the art scissors? Finally, using the phonices we have learned this year, we labelled our pictures with the dinosaurs’ names. We think that maybe Miss Claire tricked us into ‘thinking’ we were just drawing and painting, when really we were practising so many other skills too!
Come and visit Kindergarten classroom, where you will not only see our dinosaur art work, but our dinosaur fact book…full of our made-up dinosaurs and their characteristics! Dinosaurs really are alive in SK this term!
