"D" Dinosaurs

DINOSAURS “D”

   WARM-UPS

   Children trace names while waiting for others to arrive.

  CIRCLE TIME: (15 Minutes)

1-        Welcome to Preschool, sing a welcome song and wiggly song to get out wiggles.

2-       Calendar Time

3-        Weather

4-  Guessing Game with Bag of Dinosaur related items to help the kids guess what we are learning about today.

5-  Show the Dino Masks, and tell the Kids that the theme today is the Letter D and D is for Dinosaurs!!!

6-         SING

·      Wearing the Dino Masks

Dinosaur Song 
Kids participate by sing and acting out the motions to this dinosaur song “I'm a Mean Old Dinosaur”
 (Tune:  I'm a little Tea Pot)

 “I'm a mean old Dinosaur 
 (Make a mean face, the kids make the cutest mean faces) 
 Big and Tall 
(Gesture hands big and tall ) 
 Here is my tail, here is my claw. 
(Gesture hands behind your back for tail and make claw hands) 
 When I get all hungry  (rub your tummy) 
 I just growl 
(Have the kids exaggerate the grrroooowwwlll) 
Look out kids I'm on the prowl. 
  (Here I tickle each one of the tummy and they all giggle)”

  EXPLORATION TIME: (30 Minutes)

·      Dinosaur Toys and Play Mat

·      Big Dinosaur Floor Puzzle

·      Dinosaur Books

  BUILD A SNACK (15 Minutes)

·                 Dinosaur Cookies

·            Dinosaur “Dig” Treats. (Chocolate Pudding with Dinosaur Fruit snacks hidden in to find with   spoon.)

 

 CRAFT: (15 Minutes)

·             Paper Plate Dinosaurs 

·            Magic Growing Water Dinosaurs (Little Pills that turn into dinosaurs in water.)

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (15 Minutes)

GAME:

·           T-Rex Tag

 One of the children is the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the others are all plant-eaters. Mark  off a fairly large area and have Tyrannosaurus Rex try to tag the plant-eaters. When the  Tyrannosaurus Rex tags them, they must sit on the ground and stay there. Once the  Tyrannosaurus Rex has tagged all of the plant-eaters, the last person to be tagged  becomes the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

·           Dinosaur Dig

  Hide plastic dinosaurs in your sand area and let your children dig for bones.

  DINOSAUR STORY CIRCLE

 Read Dinosaur Books out loud. Maybe have the kids wear their masks to close the day.

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