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We had a lovely day today learning more about dinosaurs.  Yes, it is the science unit that never ends, but who cares!?  Not me.  I love dinosaurs.  Especially since I grew up in public school, and was taught, and believed, lies of evolution and millions of years.  So it's like I am learning it all over again, and I'm fascinated!

Today we watched the first disc in Ken Ham's Dinosaurs, Genesis & the Gospel.  I wasn't sure how it would go over, as it's largely lecture with a few songs thrown in.  My kids loved it!  There is a built-in quiz and they actually paid attention enough to answer all of the questions.  So hooray!  I was afraid they were too little for it, but they weren't.

After we watch part 2 of the DVD, we are moving onto learning about individual dinosaurs.  That could take forever!  I guess I'll have to pick out a few.  And by a few, I probably mean, say, 10.  Is it bad that I'm 32 and love dinosaurs?  It can't be....  Anyway, for this part of the unit we are using Dinosaurs by Design.

And I was thrilled to learn today that the local natural history museum has 1/2 price days for kids through the end of February.  So I think we'll finally go look at some bones.  I feel like they have a good foundation now for what is truth, and what isn't!