This blog is my own personal time travel into the past...

Saturday 10 December 2011

JURASSIC FOSSILS OF SORIA


There are fossils in Soria in Spain because about 65-170 million years ago, Spain was covered in tropical seas. Now there is a lot of shelly limestone around and if you're lucky, you can find bits of shells and other sea creature remains.
I have a big collection of some really cool fossils.
 Can you see the bits of shells in this limestone?
 This one looks exactly like the original shell but it's now stone A neighbour gave it to me.
 

Thursday 1 September 2011

THE DINOSAURS OF SORIA

 
 
This is Soria, in the Tierras Altas (Highlands) famous for their ichnites. We went to see them and some models of various dinos.
They are magnificent.
This is dad checking out the ornithopod..
These are ichnites. They are sweeeeeet.
Now, that is something you don't see every day - a dino walking down the street.
Nice pointy theropod ichnites, eh?
That's an old toothless dinosaur!
While we were there, we went to the Palaeontology Centre that has more prints and lots of models of dinos.
This one is eating someone else's eggs.
 
 
 When I got home I was inspired to do my own dinosaur park.
I made the mud all mushy to look like the marshes of ancient Soria.
This is how we know so much about these dinosaurs now, because of the prints they left behind in the swampy mud. 
 
Then I wrote up a lapbook about everything I have learned.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday 4 May 2011

Kamishibai-Why we celebrate the 2nd of May in Madrid


This is me drawing the pictures for the Kamishibai.
In Madrid we celebrate the 2nd of May for the War of Independance against Napolean's troops. It's also known in English as the Peninsular War. This happened in 1808 during King Carlos IV's time.

Kamishibai is a Japanese word that means paper play. It's a great way to tell a story!

This is a video of me when I was about 7 reading the story.


 

Saturday 16 April 2011

EGYPT LAPBOOK

 
This is a project that I did with cardboard.
 I learned lots about Ancient Egypt like the gods and goddesses, mummification, farm life, temples, pyramids, heiroglyphs, etc.
This lapbook is supposed to look like a temple. The stickers are from an Usbourne book.
The top and the bottom come off so you can open it up.
These postcards are from the Tutenkarmon exhibition.