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Dinosaurs
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Submitted by: Nancy Rodriguez, Baldwin Boettcher
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Audience
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• Pre-school
• Schoolage
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Books
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Dad's Dinosaur Day by:Diane Dawson Hearn
A young boy wakes up one morning to find his dad has become a dinosaur for the day.
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Trouble at the Dinosaur Cafe by:Brian Moses
The plant-eating dinosaurs are scared when a hungry Tyrannosaurus stomps into their peaceful cafe looking for a meaty meal.
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Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct by:Mo Willems
Everyone loves the town's dinosaur, Edwina, except one young boy who is determined to prove to everyone that dinosaurs are extinct.
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I'm Bad! by:Kate & Jim McMullan
Who's the baddest dinosaur in the prehistoric forest? It might just be a hungry T-Rex with a lot of attitude.
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Songs
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Dig for Dinosaurs (action song)
Tune: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
(have children stand or sit and pretend to dig)
Let's dig, dig, dig for dinos,
Dig, dig, dig for dinos,
Dig, dig, dig for dinos,
Dig for dinosaurs.
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Craft
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Have the children make dinosaurs as a literacy extension activity. Crafts I have had success with include:
T-Rex from DLTK's Crafts for Kids
http://www.dltk-kids.com/Crafts/cartoons/mrex.htm
Stegosaurs Craft from the Texas State Library's Summmer Reading Manual
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/trc/2008/manual/bil_dino.html
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