TITANIC

I did a project on the TITANIC because I am a fan and it was its 100th anniversary. It is a very cool boat. I used an old picture book with holes to make it look like the portholes on a boat.

 

A CHINESE LAPBOOK

When I started Chinese language classes with some friends, I also learned a little bit about the country and its history.

Then I made a lapbook in the shape of the Great Wall and put in stuff like the Dynasties, inventions, the 1st Chinese Emperor, a bit about the Wall, geography and martial arts, etc.

It was fun trying to do some calligraphy of the Chinese characters. I think they're really nice to draw.

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.

 

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.