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Posts tagged ‘dinosaurs’

In which we visit Davis Farmland in Sterling, MA

At the beginning of the summer, my daughter asked me where she could go to dig for dinosaur bones. We had visited the tracks at the Nash Dinosaur Track Site and Rock Shop as well as the Dinosaur Footprints at Holyoke, MA last fall, and my daughter wasn’t interested in simply going to see more footprints. She wanted bones. And she wanted to dig up least two of them, so that she could keep one for herself and give the other to the Museum of Science.

Messy Eaters

My daughter, handing me her T. Rex puppet: “Mommyo, will you tie this bib on the T-Rex? You have to put bibs on them before they…

What to do on your 43rd visit to the Boston Museum of Science

OK, so maybe we haven’t really been to the Boston Museum of Science 43 times this year, but sometimes it sure can feel like it. So where do you go when your preschooler has memorized the dinosaur exhibit, categorized the complete contents of the midden heap, swarmed the Butterfly Garden, grown tired of the Apollo and Mercury space capsules, eked every last bit of joy out of the orbiting marbles in Mathematica, and despaired of the chaos in Science in the Park?

In which we visit the Magic Flute Toy Shop

While we were tooling around the Monadnock region this summer, we stumbled upon the Magic Flute Toy Shop, a rather amazing toy store hidden behind an unassuming store front in a strip mall in Peterborough, NH, about thirty minutes northeast of Hillsborough.

My daughter’s first poem

Composed after watching the Dinosaur Train episode “Campout”, which features Patricia Palaeobatrachus: Palaeobatrachus, Palaeobatrachus, Ribbit, Ribbit, What are you doing, Talking about us?

Last Dinosaur Before Mass Extinction Discovered

OK, so the odds are that this guy wasn’t actually the very last dinosaur on the planet before the mass extinction, but it makes for a good headline. (Isn’t it wonderful how facts can be misconstrued so succinctly?)

But I didn’t link to the article just to make a point about its headline.