Dinosaurs & Squirrels

Over the last few evenings we decided to follow a great idea that was featured on a facebook page I use, involving toy dinosaurs. https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/6f4cb1886d41
It features placing toy dinosaurs in situations where it looks as though they have been causing trouble over night.
You could knock it as non educational and just for fun but it's actually led to discussions about particular dinosaurs. Mostly the stegosaurus as H noted that we didn't have one in our toy collection.  This has led to worksheets, colouring and watching some videos on the natural history museum website and discovering that the first complete dinosaur skeleton in the world was actually discovered here in the UK not far from us.

Scelidosaurus

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/dinosaurs-other-extinct-creatures/dino-directory/scelidosaurus.html

Some of the places the kids found the dinosaurs each morning.

We spent this morning at C's football match and while he was warming up we went for a stroll down to the village. On our way we stopped to watch the squirrels.

As always we visited the pet shop, must be one of M's favourite ways to spend some time. After playing on the park, messing about in the leaves and holding what seemed to be an awful lot of ladybirds, C finished his game with a win.

Off home to warm ourselves up with some beans on toast and spend the rest of the day playing indoor football, lego, games and watching tv.