This week was “Dinosaur Week” in my field placement, which was very exciting and a lot of fun for the first graders! We read stories about specific dinosaurs and how they lived, wrote our own “If the dinosaurs came back…” stories, and made life-size dinosaurs of our very own! This was a great theme for the children because it was something they could all take part in and get creative with, and something they all had heard of and really loved learning about. During a discussion, my CT mentioned that the kids could create their dinosaurs however they want, and be as creative, silly or thoughtful as they wanted in doing so because we don’t really know exactly what the dinosaurs were like since they are all gone and have been gone so long before humans ever existed, so there were “no wrong answers” for this activity. One of my students related this and said “yeah, that’s cause the dinosaurs are all extinct”, which is an uncommon word for six and seven year old children to use. My CT asked the rest of the class if they knew what this word meant, and none of the 27 other children could explain, so she let the boy who first brought it up explain-for which he accurately stated “that means that they are all gone and not coming back cause there are no more left in the whole wide world”-very good description coming from a first grader!