Fossils

Nath Loft used to work at a dinosaur provincial park in Canada. She shared her fossils with us today. We got to hold and feel them. They are about 72 million years old!! 

We were amazed that they were so heavy. The back pieces had sand and stuff go into it and made it heavy and stone. 

We saw a dinosaur tooth. Brodie thought it was from a meat eating dinosaur because it looked sharp. Holly remembered it was a crocodile tooth. 

Owen is holding a piece of turtle shell from a turtle that was alive at the same time as the dinosaurs. 

"Rosalie said "The plant eater tooth was very cute because it was very little. "

Koji said "the shell was smooth and flat." It is called ammonite. 

We also played paleontologists and sorted pictures into groups of fossils and dinosaurs. 

We are Paleontologists!!

Today we became paleontologists. We excavated a dinosaur from its egg using special tools. 

This is what our eggs looked like before we started. 

"We were trying to find dinosaur bones and also we were trying to be a paleontologist." Said Holly. 

"We scratched the egg and we found a dinosaur." Said Loren

We took over the outdoor inquiry space. We scratched and dug at our eggs. 

Our dinosaur fossils slowly emerged. 

As we worked we found feet, tails, scales and heads. We had to be careful not to damage the dinosaur inside. 

We loved being paleontologists. 

"There was a fossil in the egg too." said Koji. 

When our dinosaur was out of the egg, we saw the fossil marks it had left behind. 

"It was fun and dusty scraping the egg." Said Rosalie. 

We made a wonderful mess and had an amazing time. We will get to bring our dinosaurs and fossils home to share with our families soon.