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        Dinosaurs Books:

        • "Curious George and the Dinosaur"
        • "Mrs. Toggle and the Dinosaur" by Robin Pulver
        • "The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone"
        • "Dinosaur Encore" by Batricia Mulli
        • "Dazzle the Dinosaur" by Marcus Pfister
        • "The Dinosaur Egg Mystery" by Val Biro
        • "Dinosaur Babies" by Lucille Penner
        • "Baby Stegosaurus" by Beth Spanjian


        *make life sized dinosaur foot prints...see how many children will fit into it.

        *Make new name tags that read: Joey-o-saurus, or Sarah-o-don....just for fun.

        *Put out scraps of color paper and glue and dinosaur shaped pasta and have the children make a dinosaur scene or collage.

        *have a large selection of plastic dinosaurs in a pile. Have the children work out a way to put these dinosaurs into groups. for example: all the long tails or all the ones with spikes...etc. They can come up with great ideas. I love doing this with them. We always group then regroup....and try again...

        *if your students are ready for some letter stuff...look at the dinosaur's names....talk about the letters...what are the beginning letters? what letters are in all the words?

        *sing: Colorful Dinosaurs (Tune: One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians) {Have felt dinosaurs of the various colors to put on flannel board as you sing.}

        • 1 red
        • 1 blue
        • 1 green dinosaur
        • 1 orange
        • 1 yellow
        • 1 white dinosaur
        • 1 pink
        • 1 brown
        • 1 black dinosaur
        • 9 dinosaurs in all!
        Play around with this song and start taking away dinosaurs...ask..."Can you guess which dinosaur is gone?" "How many are left?" "Which one is the stegosaurs?" etc., etc.

        *we did a plaster cast of some dinosaur mold that I found at a hobby store...and kids painted them

        *we put rice in a huge vat..and buried bones...and plastic eggs that i filled with small dinosaurs....

        *get one of those plastic models that you put together..and show it in skelton form

        *find some shells......rocks with fossils...etc and talk about what they are...

        *Theres a cute poem: "PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS (pak-i-sef-a-lo-saw-rus)" by Richard Armour and another "The steam shovel" by Rowena Bennett. They both appear in Sing A Song of Popcorn,1988 ; Scholastic Inc. *I know I can probably find more when I have a chance to look, but I get Dinosaur shaped Chicken nuggets from a food wholesaler that some of the providers order from! They are really good chicken(tyson) and the kids think they are great too!

        *we took mural paper and cut it into two dino shapes big enough to cover a large table. The first day I left out dino shaped sponges; for the other dino I left out collage materials. Small dinosaurs on 8x11" paper were marble painted on a third day and when dried, mounted on colored construction paper egg shapes. Mounted on a wall; the eggs followed the "parent dinos" walking along. The next day we painted huge leaf shapes and the children painted gold metallic on three or four paper towel rollers. Mounted together on the wall, these made the dinosaur's three-dimensional dinosaur food.

        *Cute book: "If the Dinosaurs Came Back" by: Bernard Most

        *Game: Dinosaur Bone Hunt
        Cut out several kinds of "dinosaur bones" from cardboard. Hide bones inside or outside. Tell kids they are going to pretend to be "paleontologists", the scientists who study dinosuars. Paleontologists find bones from dinosaurs in the ground, and these bones are the things that have taught us about dinosaurs. Have the kids hunt to find the bones.

        *Show kids pictures of different dinosaurs and their skeletons. Some older kids can make dinosaurs out of clay. Tell kids the names of the dinosaurs too, having them repeat the name (pretty funny the way they come out, actually!)

        *You could use brown paper bags and make mountains. Just dampen the bags with water,(very little) then crumble or squeese and form mountains. Then let the kids put some paint on them. Use another for the land and then make some trees to glue on the land. Put the dinos on there and bravo a dino community. You could make a volcano also with the brown bags and paint. Put it all in a cut off cardboard box for a foundation. Or use shoe boxes and make individual small communities for each child.

        *There are lots of snacks that are in dino shapes cookies, jelly candy, animal cookies, ect. Or bake your own with dino cutouts.

        * Knowledge Adventure, Inc. (Keyword to: "http://www.adventure.com")

        *Dinosaur stew... like stone soup. Use a calf femer as the bone and stir the pot with it.

        *Be palientologists: Bury another femer and help them "find" it.

        *Match skeletons to the pictures of dinosaurs.

        *How many dinosaurs will hatch. Using plastic easter eggs, put small dino figures or construction paper cutouts. Use it as an adding game, a number recognition, or a sorting activity.

        *Tape actual-sized footprints on the ground using butcher paper. Have children compare the size of their feet or the size of their favorite animal.

        *Sort animals by herbivours or carnivours. Great opportunity to learn some fun words.

        *Cut out felt dino shapes... have them match the babies to the parents.

        *If anyone has the David Jack video he has a song called dinoasaur dip. its great fun and the kids love it. it's kind of a rock and roll beat with the repitition of Dip, dip, dip, dip-de-dip-de dip doing the dinosaur dip.

        *Our speech dept., bought some wonderful plastic dinos. they are about 18 to 24 " tall and have realistic features. we also bought a bag of the small plastic dino and put them in our sensory table. we group them by color and type of dino. since "Land Before Time video, most kids have the names down... long neck, sharp tooth, sara and if forget the others but its a great association of them to make. they also enjoy aa giant floor puzzle.

        *Dino Soap Box Derby this is an activity to give the kid's dinosaurs "wheels" ...will also work for other "stuffys, barbie dolls etc!!
        Required:

        • small cardboard box
        • four yougurt container tops
        • four brads
        • crayons or markers
        • tape
        • string (optional)
        Start with a small box and punch four small holes on the sides, about 1/2" from the bottom at each corner. Then take the four plastic yogurt tops and puch a small hle in the center of each (you need to do the hole punching). Affix each yogurt top to the box with a brad and you instantly have four wheels (cover the sharp ends of the brad with tape for saftey). Attach a string and handle, if you like. The rest is artwork. The child can decide if they want their dinosaur to ride in a chool bus, racing car, or pickup truck. When it's finished, let the dino take it out for a spin!!

        *We also do the volcano experiment but take it one step further. After we do a large demonstratation, I tell them it's their turn to be scientists. We talk about how important scientists are and how they do experiments. Then we bring out the equipment. I have a tray with pipetts, popsicles sticks, little cups(we use medicine cups from the hospital), a tub of water,and the most important ingrediants baking soda and vinegar. I show them how to put baking soda in the cup using a stick, use the pipette to get vinegar and presto, a mini volcano. Next we talk about how the scientist always cleans his things for the next scientist by rinsing out his cup in the tub of water. All of this plus extras go into the water table for the kids to experiment on their own. They love it. Some children will spend all free play there. We also do this with color mixing, and what dissolves.

        *Stuffed Dinosaurs: For each child cut two dinosaur shapes out of brown paper bags or brown butcher paper. Have the children hold their shapes together while you staple together around three sides. Then let them crumple small pieces of newspaper and stuff them into their dinosaur shapes. When the shapes are full, staple the remaining sides closed. Let the children decorate their stuffed dinosaurs with paint. When the dinosaurs shapes are dry, attach loops of yarn to them and hang around the room. Variation: Punch holes around the edges of the pairs of dinosaurs and let the children lace together with yarn.

        *Dinosaur Fact Book: Have the children take turns dictating a favorite dinosaur fact to you. Write each child's fact on a separate sheet of paper and let him or her illustrate the fact with crayons, markers or dinosaur stickers/stamps. Staple the pages together to make a Dinosaur Fact Book.

        *Tyrannosaurus Toss: Draw a picture of a large Tyrannosaurus head on a piece of sturdy cardboard. Use a sharp knife to cut the dinosaur's mouth including lots of teeth. Then prop the cardboard Tyrannosaurus head against a chair or secure it with tape across a doorway. Give the children bean bags and let them take turns "feeding the dinosaur" by tossing the bean bags into its mouth.

        *Prehistoric Parade: Play different types of instrumental music. Have the children move around the room, pretending to be the dinosaurs that the music reminds them of. For example, a march might remind them of Tyrannosauruses; light airy music, Pteranondons; slow music, Apatosauruses, munching on plants in the swamp. When you stop the music, encourage the children to tell you which dinosaurs they were.

        *Tyrannosaurus Rex:
        Sung to: Mary had a Little Lamb:

          Dinosaurs walked on this Earth,
          On this Earth, on this Earth.
          Dinosaurs walked on this Earth,
          A loong, long time ago.

          Tyrannosaurus Rex was the king,
          Was the king, was the king.
          Tyrannosaurus Rex was the king,
          A long, long time ago.

          Tyrannosaurus (child's name) was the king,
          Was the king, was the king.
          Tyrannosaurus (child's name) was the king,
          A long, long time ago.

        *A suggestion for a Dinosaur lunch is:

        • Dino legs (chicken legs)
        • Tree tops (broccoli)
        • quick sand (apple sauce)
        • Dino bread (Dinosaur shaped graham crackers)
        Craft ideas:

        *Using clay make a Dinosaur

        *color Dinosaur pictures and trees, cut them out and make a 3 D scene in a shoe box

        *decorate dino eggs. Look in a book at what the eggs look like (color, spots) and decorate the eggs like you do at Easter to look like the ones in the book

        *let kids cut out lots of feet (in the shape of dino feet) and set them on the floor all through your house and go on a dino hunt. Leaving clues to find the Dinosaur where the trail ends. (we used a stuffed Dinosaur at the end of the trail).

        *DINO HAT Duplicate a dinosaur pattern on construction paper for each child. Have the children decorate their dinosaur. Glue the dinosaur to a sentence strip shaped paper, staple ends of strip together to fit around the head. Have a dinosaur parade with children wearing their dino hats.

        *Dinosaur Shadow Box: Shoe box,crayons, grass (real or fake), toy dinosaurs or playdough dinosaurs that children make and rocks

        *Draw moutains or marsh on inside bottom of shoe box...turn box onn side and fill shadow box floor with grass, rocks and dinosaurs

        *Outdoor play: Dinosaur is Sleeping One child is Dinosaur who pretends to be asleep while everyone else hides. The everyone yells "Wake up, dinosaur." Dinosaur wakes up and tries to find everyone. Let Children take turns being dinosaur.

        *Storytime: Let children take turns making up stories using their shadow boxes.

        *Music:

        Dinosaurs (tune of "Row Your Boat")
        Dinosaurs, dinosaurs
        Eating fruits and weeds
        Take a bite and chew it well
        And then spit out the seeds.

        *Learning Time

        Make statements to which children answer yes or no. Use such statements about dinosaurs as:

        • Dinosaurs ate bushes. (yes)
        • Dinosaurs drove cars(no)
        • Some dinosaurs could fly (yes)
        • Dinosaurs lived in houses (no).

        *Dinosaur folder
        Children glued cut outs of dinosaurs (from construction paper) on to a file folder. The children also drew whatever they wanted on the folder. Matching cut-out of what they glued were given to them so that they could do a matching activity with these folders.

        *Volcano
        Take an empty glass spice jar. Use playdough to surround the jar into a mountain looking structure. Put a drop of food coloring we used green into the spice jar about a tablespoon of baking soda and add vinegar to it to make an erupting volcano.

        *Clean Mud
        Put two rolls of toilet paper into a container that has a lid. Add water. Let the rolls of toilet paper soak over night. Take 2 Ivory soap bars and using a grater shave the bars of soap into the container. Let the kids have fun it feels pretty neat make sure the little ones don't try to eat it though it taste awful.

        *Dino Felt Boards
        Cut cardboard into square or rectangle shapes (a good size is about 10 inches by 15 inches) Either glue or tape felt to the board for a background give the kids scraps of felt. They can cut out the scraps to make clouds, mountains, grass, etc. Glue these shapes onto the felt on board. We used an Ellison cut-out thingy to cut-out shapes of dinosaurs on felt and the kids had fun with the shapes on their boards.

        *We also set out:

        • Dino Stencils
        • Dino Stamps
        • Dino figures in block area

        *PICTURE BOOKS

        • Dinosaur dreams, Ahlberg, Allen
        • dinosaurs, dinosaurs, BARTON, BYRON
        • Derek, the Knitting dinosaur, BLACKWOOD, MARY
        • Dinosaur at the supermarket, CAMP, LINDSAY
        • Patrick's dinosaurs, CARRICK, CAROL
        • big old bones CARRICK, CAROL
        • terrible tyrannosaurus CHARLTON, ELIZABETH
        • Little grunt and the big egg DE pAOLA, TOMIE
        • dinosaur's halloween, DONNELLY, LIZA
        • dad's dinosaur day, HEARN, DIANE DAWSON
        • the dinosaur who lived in my backyard, HENNESSY, B.G.
        • the secret dinosaur, HIRSH, MARILYN
        • dinosaur, my darling, HURD, EDITH
        • dinosaur days, MANNING, LINDA
        • when dinosaurs go visiting, MARTIN, LINDA
        • dinostory, MORGAN, MICHAELA
        • If the dinosaurs came back, MOST, BERNARD
        • whatever happened to the dinosaurs, MOST, BERNARD
        • dinosaur chase, OTTO, CAROLYN
        • how I captured a dinosaur, SCHWARTZ, HENRY
        • dinosaur dress up, SIROIS, ALLEN
        • dinny and danny, SLOBODKIN, LOUIS
        • dinosaur roar! STICKLAND, PAUL
        • We're back!: a dinosaur's story TALBOT, HUDSON
        • Quiet on account of dinosaur, THAYER, JANE
        • dinosaur fright, THREADGALL, COLIN
        • If i rode a dinosaur, YOUNG, MIRIAM
        • tyrone the horrible, WILHELM, HANS

        *EASY READERS
        • THE FOOLISH DINOSAUR FIASCO, CORBETT, SCOTT
        • DANNY AND THE DINOSAUR, HOFF, SYD
        • THE TYRANNOSAURUS GAME, KROLL, STEVEN
        • THUNDER MAKES A SAND CASTLE, lOGAN, DICK
        • DINOSAUR TIME, PARISH, PEGGY
        • MITCHELL IS MOVING, SHARMAT, MARJORIE

        NONFICTION

        • DIGGING UP DINOSAURS, ALIKI
        • DINOSAUR BONES, ALIKI
        • MY VISIT TO THE DINOSAURS, ALIKI
        • DINOSAUR MOUNTAIN, ARNOLD, CAROLINE
        • THE DINOSAURS AND THE DARK STAR, BATES, ROBIN
        • THE BIG BEAST BOOK, BOOTH, JERRY
        • BE A DINOSAUR DETECTIVE, DIXON, DOUGAL
        • DINOSAURS AND THEIR YOUNG, FREEDMAN, RUSSELL
        • DINOSAURS, GIBBONS, GAIL
        • GIANT DINOSAURS, ROWE, ERNA
        • ILLUSTRATED DINOSAUR DICTIONARY, SATTLER, HELEN
        • A FIRST LOOK AT DINOSAURS, SELSAM, MILLICENT
        • DRAWING DINOSAURS AND OTHER PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, BOLOGNESE, DON
        • DINOSAURS, EMBERLEY, MICHAEL
        • MORE DINOSAURS AND OTHER PREHISTORIC BEASTS, EMBERLEY, MICHAEL
        • DINOSAUR JOKES, ALDEN, LAURA
        • TYRANNOSAURUS WAS A BEAST, PRELUTSKY, JACK
        • DINOSAUR FUNNY BONES, POLHAMUS, JEAN

        *CASSETTES

        • DINOSAUR CAFE
        • DINOSAUR ROCK
        • I WISH I WAS A DINOSAUR
        • WEE SING DINOSAURS
        • DOING THE DINOSAUR ROCK
        • WHERE ARE THE DINOSAURS?
        • DIGGING UP DINOSAURS
        • DINOSAUR TIME

        *CD'S
        • DINOSAURS AND DRAGONS
        • BIG SONGS

        *VIDEOS

        • WE'RE BACK!: A DINOSAUR'S STORY
        • THE LAND BEFORE TIME I, II, III, IV.
        • BARNEY'S ALPHABET ZOO
        • I DIG FOSSELS
        • PATRICK'S DINOSAURS
        • BARNEY'S HOME SWEET HOMES
        • STANLEY AND THE DINOSAURS
        • DINOSAURS
        • DINOSAURS, DINOSAURS, DINOSAURS.

        *How about making up a story about your "classroom dinosaur". Have the children work together to come up with a name and story for the dino.

        *Drama: Use paper plates to make a stegosaurus costume Use plates/cups to make a stegosaurus mask

        *Art: Stand Up Stegosaurus w/paper plates, paper tubes and paper Make dinosaur crowns (can add stickers for each dino studied)

        *Games: Tyrannosaurus Rex Tag Build a Dinosaur Use Hula Hoops to define the water and let children act out the various plant-eating dinosaurs. Call out "T. Rex" they scramble to their safe zones inside the hoops.

        *Science: Volcanic Eruption Dinosaur Soap Eggs (with small toy dino inside) Serve Broccoli ("trees") and Lettuce ("leaves") for snack

        *Math: Make various large cutouts of dinosaurs. Cut several shapes (circles, squares, triangles, etc. -- or draw irregular "bone" shapes) out of tagboard. Use the shapes to draw outlines on each dinosaur -- maybe three or four per dinosaur. Laminate all. Bury the bones or shapes in the sensory table and have children "dig for bones" and match them to the dinosaurs. Photocopy a dinosaur on one side of a paper and its skeleton on the backside, lining up the pictures. Children paint dino, glue to small white paper bag. Shining a flashlight up inside will show the skeleton! Hide dog bones in sensory table Make plaster of paris fossil molds.

        Hold a scavenger hunt. Draw simple pictures of various areas in the classroom and number from 1-?? Hide the sheets in the classroom (giving the first card to the children) so that when the children look at each card, it leads them to the next card. Have something special hiding (maybe a dinosaur book for story time??) at the last location. Songs: Brontosaurus is my name My footsteps sound like thunder. although I'm large, I'm gentle too. And seldom leave the water.

        The Triceratops lived long ago in prehistoric time. We know that it was living here by fossils that we find. On its head it had two horns and one was on its snout. To keep it safe, no doubt.

        (Tune: Where oh where did my little dog go) Oh, where, oh where did the dinosaurs go? Oh, where, oh where can they be? They were much too big to just disappear. It sure is puzzling to me!

        *Put paper sacks on feet for dino feet and dance around to dino music wee sing has a good one) i got this idea from a terrific penpal

        *Make Dino bones

        • 1 cup peanut butter
        • 1 cup dry milk
        • 2 tbs honey
        • graham crackers crushed

        Combine P.B. and milk add honey mix well divide into equal portions after shaping them into bones sprinkle with crackers

        *measured out the length of a apatosaurus with yarn 70 feet

        *collage a cardboard cut out of different dinos

        * My favorite dino idea is the stegasourus hat. Trace 2 Steg shapes and have the kids cut them out. Then they use all the scrap construction paper from other projects to make the spikes and bigo boppers or markers to color the steggie. We fit it on their heads then and they are a Dino.

        We also played a Mommy/Daddy Dinosaur and Baby game. Again, like "Doggie, Doggie" except we used model dinosaurs, the children were either Mommy or Daddy Dino.

          "DINOSAUR, DINOSAUR, LOOK AND SEE
          YOUR BABY IS GONE! WHERE CAN IT BE?"

        We also watched Curious George and the Dinosaur and the children also like the Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone. It helps the children realize that the only place we can see dinosaurs is a museum, as opposed to tv suggesting otherwise.

        *DINOSAUR HUNT

          Going on a dinosaur hunt. (slap thighs)
          And I'm not afraid. (point to self)
          There's a tall mountain. (look with hand over eyes)
          Can't go under it. (move hand down)
          Can't go around it. (move hand around)
          Guess I'll go over it. (reach hands as if climbing)
          There's a river. (hands over eyes. NOTE: REPEAT ABOVE ACTIONS AS APPROPRIATE FOR THE REST OF THE CHANT)
          Can't go over it.
          Can't go under it
          Guess I'll swim across it. (move arms as if swimming)
          There's some tall grass.
          Can't go over it
          Can't go around it
          Guess I'll go through it (slap hands up and down in front)
          There's a cave!
          Can't go over it.
          Can't go under it.
          Guess I'll go in it.
          It's dark and spooky in here (shake)
          It's cold in here! (wrap arms around self and shiver)
          I feel some scales (prentend to rub something)
          I feel some big teeth! (pretend to touch something)
          OHH! It's a Dinosaur! (screan)
          Run out of the cave (slap thighs)
          Go through the grass
          Swim across the river
          Climb the mountain
          Run home (slap thighs)
          Open the door
          Jump into bed (cover head with arms as if hiding under a blanket)
          I went on a dinosaur hunt
          And I wasn't afraid!

        Note: For anyone who hasn't done this before (and it's similar to Going on a Bear Hunt) this is a chant. You should say the line first and do the action and then the children will repeat it back to you.Each line has an action. On the obvious ones, I just left it out because it is so much typing!

        *Dinosaur mountains. Mix together 5 parts sand, 2 parts plaster of paris, and 2 parts water. You may need to add a little more water to make it about the consistancy of pancake batter. Pour it into paper cups. Push into each cup a small plastic dinosaur. When it is hard tear off the paper cup and give the children craft sticks to scrape off the "stone" to find what's inside ( it's really soft and easy). I crumpled up the paper cup before adding the mountain mixture. Then after I took off the paper I rounded off some of the sharp edges and created a few new dips in the flat top. It looked a lot more like a stone that way.

        *Dinosaur Delight

        • 1/4C dirt(cocoa)
        • 1/2C swamp water(milk with green food coloring)
        • 2C crushed bones (sugar)
        • 1/2C fat(butter)
        • 2C dead grass(uncooked oatmeal)
        • 1/2C squashed bugs(peanut butter)

        Mix cocoa & milk. Add sugar and butter. Boil about 3 min. Add peanut butter and oatmeal and stir until melted. Remove from heat and stir until mixture begins to thicken, Drop by tabelspoonsful onto waxed paper cool,eat and enjoy.....

        *Dinosaur Fossils

        I save all my old playdough and use it to make fossils. I divide it into small balls and the children roll it flat either on a small paper plate or yogurt lid. Then they press small plastic dinosaurs into it. I usually let them harden for a couple of days before I send them home.

        *Dino shadow matching (folder game-match the dino picture to a black silhouette)

        * dino sewing cards

        *Dinosaurs to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

        • Great Big dinosaurs
        • Lived so long ago.
        • Some liked land, and some liked water.
        • Some flew in the air.
        • Great big dinosaurs
        • lived so long ago.
        • Some had horns, and some had spikes.
        • Some had wings like bats.
        • Great big dinosaurs
        • Lived so long ago.
        • Some ate plants, and some ate meat,
        • But now there are no more. (Eastberg)

        *I found a great book at the library called Monster Soup (sorry I can't find the auther's name) and in it are two great poems relating to dinos. The kids have memorized both because the rhythm of the words roll off of their tongues and are such fun to say.

        *Allosaurus (Tune: "Alouette")

        • Allosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus,
        • Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex!
        • Stegosaurus, Trachodon,
        • Triceratops, Pterandon.
        • Dinosaurs, dinosaurs,
        • Dinosaurs, dinosaurs, Oh...
        • Allosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus,
        • Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex!

        *Ten Big Dinosaurs

        • (Tune: "10 Little Indians")
        • 1 big, 2 big, 3 big dinosaurs,
        • 4 big, 5 big, 6 big dinosaurs,
        • 7 big, 8 big, 9 big dinosaurs,
        • Ten big dinosaurs!
        • They all lived a long, long time ago.
        • They all lived a long, long time ago.
        • They all lived a long, long time ago.
        • Now there are no more.

        *Five Enormous Dinosaurs

        • Five enormous dinosaurs, letting out a roar,
        • One went away and then there were four.
        • Four enormous dinosaurs, munching on a tree,
        • One went away and then there were three.
        • Three enormous dinosaurs didn't know what to do,
        • One went away and then there were two.
        • Two enormous dinosaurs having lots of fun,
        • One went away and then there was one.
        • One enormous dinosaur afraid to be a hero,
        • He(she) went away and then there were zero.

        BABY DINOSAUR

        • I'm bringing home a baby dinosaur
        • Won't my mother fall right through the floor
        • I'm bring home a baby dinosaur
        • Oh he's heavy!
        • I'm tying up my baby dinosaur
        • Won't my mother fall right through the floor
        • I'm tying up my baby dinosaur
        • There he's mine for evermore!

        Dinosaur Count

        • Dinosaurs, dinosaurs, how many do you see?
        • Dinosaurs, dinosaurs, count them with me.
        • One in the grass, (thumb)
        • One near the tree, (index)
        • One at the river, (middle)
        • And that makes three!
        • Dinosaurs, dinosaurs, how many do you see?.....etc
        • Three at the river, (three fingers up)
        • One swims away, (index down)
        • Two dinosaurs (two fingers up)
        • Can stay and play.

        Category: Animals: Dinosaurs
        Title: Dinosaur Data (page 1)
        Dinosaurs are monsters of the past. The word dinosaur means 'terrible lizard'. There were many types of dinosaurs, below are some of the most recognizable. Triceratops (TRI SER A TOPS) Triceratops looked sort of like a tank. It had a big body and a giant head. On it's head were two long horns. Its nose looked like a parrots beak. On the nose was a short horn. Triceratops had a strong ruffle around its neck. Only one dinosaur could beat a triceratops in a fight. That dinosaur was Tyrannosaurus rex. Pterodactyl - It had very large wings that helped it fly throught the air. It swooped down out of the sky like a kite diving to the ground. Return

        Category: Animals: Dinosaurs
        Title: Dinosaur Data (page 2)

        Brontosaurus (BRON TUH SORE US)
        Was a giant dinosaur. It's name means 'thunder lizard'. That's because it probably shook the ground when it walked. It weighed more than ten elephants. Brontosaurs ate plants.
        Tyrannosaurus rex (TIE RAN UH SORE US REKS)
        This dinosaur had very sharp teeth. It ate other dinosaurs. Rex had strong back legs and a strong tail. It had tiny arms. Rex was a scary dinosaur.
        Stegosaurus (STEG O SORE US)
        Stegosaurus was a very big dinosaur. It had sharp plates on its back. It also had very sharp spikes on its tail. They kept the Stegosaurs safe from meat eating dinosaurs.

        Dinosaur Days

        Tell your children that you are going to be talking and learning about dinosaurs. Ask them what they know about dinosaurs and make a list on a large sheet of paper. Do the same on the last day, you will be surprised at how much they have learned. Have the children draw a dinosaur, keep them and do the same on the last day of the unit. See how much their drawings have changed. Listen to 'Let's Sing About Dinosaurs' Wee Sing Dinosaur Tape. Read a story! Take the children outside and have them run like dinosaurs.


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