Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs were huge reptiles that lived millions of years ago. The period of dinosaurs is called Mesozoic era. It is divided into three different periods.

1. Triassic - The first dinosaurs appeared in Triassic period about 228 million years ago
2. Jurassic - Cooler temperatures and higher rainfall created a warm an wet climate just right for Dinosaurs
3. Cretaceous - There were more types of dinosaurs than ever. In the end of Cretaceous all dinosaurs were extinct.

Dinosaurs were herbivores or Carnivores. Herbivores are dinosaurs that eat plants. Carnivores are dinosaurs that eat meat. Now dinosaurs are extinct and not knows exactly how.

Here are some of the dinosaurs.

 

Pteranodon

Name Means:  Winged Toothless

Family: Pteranodontiade

Period: Late Cretaceous

Diet: Fish

 

Carnotaurus

Name Means: Flesh Eating Bull

Family: Abelisauridae

Period: Mid Cretaceous

Diet: Other dinosaurs

 

Parasaurolophus

Name Means: Like Saurolophus

Family: Lambeosauridae

Period: Late Cretaceous

Diet: Plants

 

Oviraptor

Name Means: Egg Thief

Family: Oviraptoradae

Period: Late Cretaceous

Diet: Mollusks and Shellfish

 

Dimetredon

Name Means: Two Measures of Teeth
Family:  Sphenacodontidae
Period: Permian (Before Triassic)
Diet: Meat

 

Gallimimus

Name Means: Chicken Mimic
Family: Ornithomimidae
Period: Late Cretaceous
Diet: Insets, Plants

Horse breeds

Here are some horse breeds that I have learned about.

Ponies

Shetland, Highland, Fell, Dales, Exmoor, Dartmoor, Connemara, Chincoteague, Haflinger, Caspian, Falabella

Light Horses

Barb, Thoroughbred, Pinto, Palomino, Arabian, Quarter Horse, Appaloosa, Andalusian, Cleveland Bay, Trakehner, Lipizzaner, Morgan

Heavy Horses

Percheron, Clydesdale, Shire, Jutland, Brabant, Suffolk Punch, Ardennais

I will write about Dinosaurs next.


Janapriya Vijayakumar

A blog for my daughter

Janapriya, my elder daughter is now 8 years old. In kindergarten, after a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, she started to talk about space, galaxy, stars and so on. She would ask questions like "How did the earth form?". I thought it was easier to take her to Borders and buy a book than try to answer it myself.

When she moved to first grade, her focus shifted to dinosaurs, bought books and toys about dinosaurs and would always watch Prehistoric Planet in Discovery Kids. She learned a lot about them on her own until she got bored. She could identify and explain characteristics of around 30-40 different dinosaurs.

From her second grade horses became her big interest. She started learning about different horse breeds and started to identify them from pictures and when looking at them in the farms. All the books and toys she buys now has to have an element of horse in it. She once asked me to print out around 60 different horse breeds until my printer ran out of ink. She cut them neatly and made a book out of it.

I promised her to create her own blog if she did well in her Kumon Reading tests and here it is, for all the great things she loves now and for all the cool things she is going to love in the future, this blog is her medium to say it aloud to the world.

All the best Priya and love you so much.

From a Proud Father