We are somewhat in the middle of the wilderness, living here in Alaska. I admit that I am not a very 'outdoorsy' type person, and would prefer to enjoy our time inside rather than battle the icy winter conditions outside. My girl and I do lots of fun things, and are exploring many different activities lately. Even though we have many events to update our blog about (including Christmas, and birthdays), we're going to skip most of them and move on to one that is an adventurous part of our lives lately, because we took this video today, and just had to share it. We discovered a new cartoon on PBS recently, called 'Dinosaur Train'. Elise LOVES this show. She is learning so much about dinosaurs and all their different features. The show is centered around a family of flying dinosaurs, called Pteranodons. The children, including the adopted son who is a Tyrannosaurus Rex, learn all about the other dinosaur species by visiting them on the dinosaur train. It is a great show that explores the world of dinosaurs in a fun way, and is in no way scary. My girl is learning tons of things about all the different dinosaurs, some animals today who share similar characteristics with dinosaurs, and even some family values as well. She LOVES this show, and will frequently amaze her Daddy by telling him all about these animals with multiple syllable names. Frequently during our pretending time at home, Elise will pretend that we are the Pteranodon family, doing various activites like collecting shells, examining dinosaur footprints in a track way, riding the dinosaur train, or looking for new dinosaurs. She also likes to act like all the different dinosaurs and tells me what makes each one special. We found the website for the Dinosaur Train show, which has a field guide section where they tell about each dinosaur and have a picture. We printed them out, and put them together in a ring/flip book for her to use during our playtime, and so we as parents can help her learn some more facts about these animals, and learn how to say the names correctly. We got it done yesterday, and she has really enjoyed going through it and telling us all about her dinosaur friends. And the good news is: we got a video! The first few pages are characters in the Pteranodon family from the show, and the rest are the dinosaurs they learn about and meet during their travels. I tried to get a view of the names while filming, but Elise just recognizes the pictures and tells us who is who. Someday she'll probably move up to actually reading the names, but for now, it is just recognizing the pictures. So, here she is, our little 3 year old dinosaur expert. We hope you enjoy 'exploring nature' with us!
3 comments:
Wow, her hair is getting to be so long! That's an amazing batch of dinosaur knowledge. I can just imagine her terrorizing babysitters and people at Church, trying to figure out what she's saying ... "This is our Indian girl, Shin Taka" ...
wow that ponytail is amazing! way to go Elise, you are getting so good at all of those big words - we especially liked the 'spike-asaurus' who is really a stegosaurus.
Awesome. Will you make another dinasour book for your craftily-deficient friend in pocatello, idaho? I'm sure it'll only cost about 60 dollars to mail it, so that won't be a problem:).
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