Dinosaurs

Read Alouds:

When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen

Dear Tyrannosaurus Rex by Lisa McClatchy

Edwina: The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems

Flannel Boards:

Dinosaur Roar! by Paul & Henrietta Stickland

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs by Byron Barton

Action Songs:

“Sleeping Pterodactyls” by Kathy Reid-Naiman

“We Are the Dinosaurs” by Laurie Berkner

“Hokey Pokeysaurus” by Music for Little People

“Dinosaur Dance” by Jane Murphy

Fingerplays:

Dinosaurs Were...
Dinosaurs lived long ago.
Some walked,
                [walk in place]
Some swam,

                [pretend to swim]
Some flew, you know!

[pretend to fly]
Some were big,

[stand up]
Some were small,

[crouch down]
Some were gigantic,

[stretch arms out wide]
Very tall!
                [stretch arms up high]

I’m A Mean Old Dinosaur

I’m a mean old dinosaur,            

                [frown]

Big and tall.

                [reach wide and high]

Here is my tail

                [point to tail]

And here is my claw.

                [curl fingers]

When I get all hungry,

                [rub tummy]

I just growl.

                [growl]

Look out kids...

[reach arms out]

I’m on the prowl!

[lunge]

Dinosaurs

Spread your arms, way out wide,
Fly like a Pterodactyl, soar and glide.

                [fly with arms]

Bend to the floor, head down low,
Move like Stegosaurus, long ago.

                [crawl on floor]

Reach up tall, try to be

As tall as Apatosaurus eating from a tree.

                [reach up high]

Using your claws, grumble and growl,
Just like Tyrannosaurus on the prowl!

                [claw at air]

The Dinosaurs
The dinosaurs lived long ago,

When life on earth began.         
Some were tall,

[stand up]
Some were small.

[crouch down]
Some liked water,

[pretend to swim]
Some liked land.

[walk in place]
Pterodactyls had leathery wings.

[flap arms]
Brontosaurs, long necks.

[stretch neck]
But the meanest dinosaur of all

[claw with hands]
Was Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Craft:

Handprint-o-saurus