Dinosaurs, Volcanoes, and Prehistoric times!

From the preschool blog today:

It was another fun day at preschool. We were excited to welcome Alan Gunnell as our guest speaker. He spoke to us about all the rocks that have anything to do with volcanoes- it was a lot of fun & the kids really liked touching the rocks & asking questions. Thanks Alan!We then moved on to our usual circle time, although I forgot a few things and read a book about volcanoes (which was one of the few books that was some-what on a preschool level!) Then we moved on to make our edible volcanoes. I have to admit, this was a lot of fun for everyone- and I'm glad someone else thought of it and I found it to copy them. They started by choosing their "lava" color, and then sticking their "volcano" into the "earth". We make the volcano erupt by icing the tops of the ice cream cones- very colorful. We added some "lava rocks" aka sprinkles, some larger rocks aka raisins, and some gummy bears- like they were running away from the lava. :) The kiddos enjoyed making and eating them. I loved seeing how different they all came out and how watch kiddo approached the eating of the volcano. :)
Then we moved on to art where we made volcanoes errupt with red torn up pieces of paper and added dinosaur stickers. Since our snack went so long, we only got to do our first page of our packet, so they have homework! :) After that we watched this video of a volcano erupting:

maua lua world biggest volcano erupts in hawaii
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And this one with the sound off:

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And then we erupted our own.......PLEASE ignore the high-pitched woman's voice.

We read a book about the Dinosaur's actual size and called it a day. A super-fun day at preschool! Love those kiddos!