Dinosaurs

Today we talked about dinosaurs!

 Preschool Express has a cute story called Dotty the Dinosaur which also is a color story.

 There a several dinosaur packs that are free and fun to use.  The picture below is some activities from 3 Dinosaurs pack.

 These activities are from Over The Big Moon's Dinosaur pack.

 Confessions of a Homeschooler has a fun Letter D/Dinosaur printable pack.

 We made these finger puppets with my Cricut and had fun playing with them again.

File Folder Fun has a cute Dino Color matching game.

We love to read books about dinosaurs.  Pictured below are some that we own, but there are lots of other great dinosaur books out there too.

Angry Birds Playground Dinosaurs

Dinosaurumpus!

How Do Dinosaurs Say I'm Mad?

Little Dino's Egg

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies?

RAWR!

 We got out our plastic dinosaurs and played with them too.  My son also enjoys playing Dinosaur Train games on pbskids.org.

You can check out what we did in 2013 here, 2010 here and here.  

Letter D/Dinosaur Preschool Theme

 Today we talked about the Letter D and dinosaurs!  Such a fun theme for my little boy and so many great ideas out there to pick from.

Visit Starfall to see their letter D activities

Here are a few activities from our Letter D as in dinosaur pack from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

There are lots of great dinosaur packs for preschool/kindergarten.  We also did some from Over the Big Moon.  Lots of great activities besides these as well.

3 Dinosaurs also has a lot of dinosaur printables.

We also did a dinosaur shape matching activity you can find here.

We did this fun file folder dinosaur matching game.

We did a fun flannel board story, "Dotty the Dinosaur".  It is a good story about colors.  My son helped me put the correct color of dinosaur up at the appropriate time. 

I made these dinosaurs with my Cricut Machine and we made them into stick puppets. My son loves doing this and making up his own stories and playing with them.  Great for the imagination!

We did this cute paper plate dinosaur.  My son loves to paint as always! There are templates for different dinosaurs on the link.

Here is a list of great dinosaur books.  I know my kids love the "How Do Dinosaur" books and also "Dinosaur Vs. the Potty".

Field Trip- Dinosaur Park

I am going to try to do a little field trip with my boys once a week.  Just something that gets us out of the house and is fun for all of us this summer.  Today we went to a Dinosaur Park and museum that isn't too far from where we live.  My oldest had gotten two free passes during the school year so it ended up being a sweet deal for us.

All of my children had a wonderful time and my husband and I did too.  My husband was a huge dinosaur lover growing up and I think that got passed down to our boys.  My 4 year old was a little weary of the noises that they had going on around the park.  He also was not a fun of the robotic dinosaurs they had inside their museum, but he was eager to read all of the plaques that told the name and information about each dinosaur.  My oldest told me that he didn't want to be a personal trainer anymore, but a paleontologist.  

Dinosaur Week Continued

There are so many great dinosaur ideas out there!  I think I could spend months on a dinosaur theme and still not do everything I've found out there.  Here are a few of the things I chose to do with my boys.  They love dinosaurs so we had a lot of fun this week!

Gathering Time:


Dotty The Dinosaur story

Dinosaur Finger play

Dinosaurs movement activity

Focus Activities:

Dinosaur file folder game

Hand print Stegosaurus

Categorize types of dinosaurs- plant eaters vs. meat eaters
(using Luigi's new sets of Jumbo Dinosaurs  )

How Big are you? Online game

Other Possible Activities:

Dinosaur Shapes

Play with dinosaur finger puppets

Watch Dinosaur movie

Watch “Dinosaur Train” video clips

Field Guide

RESOURCES:

http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/

http://www.preschoolexpress.com/

http://www.filefolderfun.com/

http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/

http://yellowmums.blogspot.com/

http://www.pbskids.org/



Dinosaur Week

We kicked off our Dinosaur theme with my son's third birthday party. 

Here are the decorations.

I made a dinosaur cake that was super easy and cute!  You can watch an instructional video here.

We also ate Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets for dinner.  It was a lot of fun.  My son receive some plastic dinosaurs for his birthday.  He and his older brother have had fun playing with them.

Actually, his younger brother loves them too! :)   The dinosaur quilt was made by my mother-in-law for Luigi (my 3 year old) when he was a baby.

Today we talked about the letter "D".  Here are some of the activities we did that are listed below.  Thanks to Erika at Confessions of a Homeschooler for her awesome alphabet printables!

http://www.starfall.com/ Letter D


Confessions of a Homeschooler

Dd lacing cards

Dd sorting

Dino clip cards

Dino color puzzles

Dino counting

Dino lacer

Dino patterning

Dino prewriting

Dino puzzle

Dino size sort

Stay tuned in for my dinosaur activities later this week!

Preschool Activities June 15-19

June 15- Dogs

Language Arts	Read "The Pokey Little Puppy"
Math	Dog Sizing
Science/Cooking	Take a walk and look and listen for dogs
Music/Gross Motor	Sing "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
Art/Fine Motor	Lunch Bag Puppy

June 16- Blue's Clues
This is going to be one of our BIG days (hopefully fun too). We are going to watch an episode of Blue's Clues to start things off. Then we are going to play our own Blue's Clues game. I will be leaving Blue's paw print on a beach towel, sunscreen, and our baby pool. We'll have a handy-dandy notebook to write our clues down with. We'll then sit in our thinking chair and decide that Blue wants us to swim in our pool!

Language Arts	Blue's Clues online games
Math	Count how many flags it takes to pin on mailbox in the right spot
Science/Cooking	Sink or Float (seen on a Blue's Clues episode)
Music/Gross Motor	Pin the Flag on Mailbox
Art/Fine Motor	Big Blue Paper Craft

June 17- Dinosaurs

Language Arts	Stomp, Stomp, Stomp
Math	Dinosaur File folder game
Science/Cooking	Categorize dinosaurs
Music/Gross Motor	Sing Dino Dance-O use finger puppets
Art/Fine Motor	Finger puppet dinosaurs

June 19- Dad/Father's

Language Arts	Watch "Just Me and my Dad"
Math	Father Puzzle- using a picture of Dad
Science/Cooking	Father's Day Yummy Cup- we will give to Dad on Father's Day
Music/Gross Motor	Sing "I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home"
Art/Fine Motor	Make a homemade Father's Day Card