01/21/2026
I generally stick to themes that are tangible in my students' lives, but I couldn't resist adding a dinosaur unit when I saw how interested they are in dinos each year. It gave us an opportunity to measure dinosaurs, do collaborative writing about dinosaurs, and make playdough imprints of dinosaurs. They can never get over the fact that all the dinosaurs have died, but that opens up the door to hypothesize about how that happened. We've got several paleontologists in the making!