digging for dinos

Michael is doing a unit on dinosaurs and so we pretended to be palientologists and go digging for fossils. We broke up the big German pretzels and scattered them in cake batter loaves. We then baked them and went searching for the "fossils". The children were only allowed to use chopsticks and had to be careful or they would break the "fossil". They categorized the pieces into middle sections and round sections and very small sections. Then they had the hard task

of putting the fossils together. We had a great time and have a better understanding of what a real palientologist goes through. Although I doubt they are allowed to eat the fossils they find or the dirt they dig through :)