Friday, April 8, 2011

Tot School: Dinosaurs


Today at Tot School we learned about some special creatures…DINOSAURS!  We enjoyed playing with foam dinosaur puzzles and learning how to dig for dinosaur bones (its very difficult!).  We did some fun dinosaur songs and fingerplays and practiced marching like dinosaurs to “We Are the Dinosaurs” by Lauri Berkner Band.  A fun activity we did was making dinosaur bookmarks and paper bag puppets.  We went on an adventure to find the lost dinosaurs and enjoyed a yummy snack of animal crackers, oranges and bananas. Some fun dinosaur books to enjoy are: Dinosaur Days by Linda Manning, Dinosaur Roar by Paul Stickland, Danny and the Dinosaur by Sid Hoff, Dinosaurs After Dark by Jonathan Emmett, Tyson the Terrible by Christyan Fox, How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their food? by Jane Tolen, and Time Train by Paul Fleischman.


Decorating dinosaur bookmarks


Doing crafts and workbooks


Previewing the books for storytime


"Look what I did"

Janet demonstrates how the puppet works
Working hard on his workbook




Enjoying dinosaur stories

So cute!


Dinosaur Dance

Demonstrating how dinosaurs eat

Getting some exercise on the "loop"

The airplanes zoom around the loop
ROOOAARR!!!

Jumping like a dinosaur

"I found one!"

I hid the dinosaurs!
Digging for dinosaur bones

Matching dinosaur colors

Little Paleontologist

These are really difficult to break open!

Dinosaur hand puppets


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