EARLY CHILDHOOD GROUP

February 3rd February 27th, 2015

MAIN TOPIC
Stomp, Roar, Dinosaurs!
Weeks

Days

Week 1

Monday
Tuesday

Motivation, topic program

Dinosaur Details
No School
Question of the Day: Is this a
dinosaur? (Display picture of a
dinosaur)
Science/Social Studies: Dinosaurs
are animals that lived a long time
ago. They were reptiles that lived
long before people were on the
earth. We will look at and feel plastic
animals in our classroom that are
reptiles and describe some of their
characteristics e.g. scales, spikes,
claws, teeth, arms, legs, etc.
Math: Based on the characteristics
of dinosaurs that we find on our
plastic animals we will separate
various objects into categories to
decide which objects are dinosaurs
and which ones are not.
Poem of the Week: I Want To Be A
Great Big Dinosaur
Letter of the Week: I

Arts and Craft

We will use markers to
complete a worksheet
identifying dinosaurs
from a variety of items

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Question of the Day: Is this

dinosaur small or big? (Display small
toy dinosaur)
Language Arts: Dinosaurs came in
many sizes. Paleontologists, guess
what size dinosaurs were by studying
the size of their bones. We will read
the story Dinosaur Roar by Paul and
Henrietta Stickland and look for all
the different sizes that dinosaurs
used to be. As we read our story we
will compare the dinosaurs on each
page and decide which of the two is
big and which is small.
Math: We will explore the concept of
big and small and practice our
ordering skills to arrange several
dinosaurs by size.

We will trace our letter of

the week I by ice
painting with food
colored ice cubes

We will use our fingers to

Question of the Day? What color is
paint a dinosaurs
this dinosaur? (Display picture of
template
green dinosaur)
Social Studies: We will discover
that dinosaurs can be many colors.
We will look at pictures of dinosaurs
and see the various colors that they
can be. We will compare the colors of
the dinosaurs in our pictures to our
plastic dinosaurs in our classroom.
Math: We will sort toy dinosaurs
based on their color, matching them
to pictures of the same colored
dinosaur. We will then count together
to see which colored category of
dinosaurs has the most and which
has the least.
We will make paper bag
Question of the Day: Does a
dinosaurs by gluing on
dinosaur roar?
eyes, teeth, and a tail to
Listening Skills: We will learn that
our dinosaurs
different types of dinosaurs make
different sounds. We will listen to
various sounds from video clips to
hear some of the sounds that
dinosaurs might have made. We will
use our bodies and voices to imitate
some of the sounds that we hear e.g.
roar, stomping, etc. We will play a
game to listen to the hidden objects
and decide if the noise that we hear
sounds like a dinosaur or an
instrument.
Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores

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Week 2

Monday

Tuesday

Question of the Day: What do

dinosaurs eat?
Science: Some dinosaurs ate plants
(herbivores) some ate meat
(carnivores), and some ate both
(omnivores). The way that a
dinosaurs teeth were shaped help to
give scientists a clue as to what they
ate. Dinosaurs with sharp teeth ate
meat; those with wide flat teeth ate
plants. We will look in the mirror to
find the body parts we use to eat and
examine the shape of our own teeth.
Language Arts: We will name
various food items and sort them into
the groups of fruit, vegetable, or
meat.
Poem of the week: Once There
Was a Dinosaur
Letter of the week: Z
Question of the Day: Are
dinosaurs soft?
Math: We will create a three column
chart for the week to classify and
sort specific dinosaurs based on what
they eat.
Social Studies/Science: The
Tyrannosaurus or T-Rex is the largest
carnivore in its environment. At one
time, the T-Rex was said to have skin
that had some feathers on it. We will
look at pictures of what this dinosaur
might have looked like and then
explore the difference between
smooth and rough by feeling various
textures e.g. feathers, sand paper,
bumpy mats, furry rugs, etc.
Language Arts: We will use
descriptive words to share if the
textures are soft, smooth, bumpy,
pokey, etc.

We will use play-doh to

create fruits that we eat
e.g. grapes, bananas,
apples, etc.

We will make a classroom

dinosaur by finding large
shapes and gluing them
together

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Wednesday

Thursday

Question of the Day: Does this

dinosaur have arms and legs?
(Display toy dinosaur with arms and
legs)
Social Studies: Stegosaurus
means covered lizard. This is
because it was covered in thick, bony
armor and protective plates. We will
learn that the Stegosaurus was a
herbivore and place a picture of it on
our classification chart.
Science/Math: We will find what
body parts we have one of and which
ones come in pairs and we will
compare them to the body of a
Stegosaurus using a Venn Diagram
chart.
Question of the Day: Are dinosaurs
heavy?
Social Studies: Brachiosaurus
means arm lizard. The
Brachiosaurus dinosaurs had very
long necks to reach the leaves on tall
trees. We will discover that the
Brachiosaurus was a herbivore,
which means that it ate plants for
food, and add it to our classification
chart.
Math: This dinosaur was one of the
biggest and heaviest dinosaurs ever
to exist. Because it was so large, it
needed to eat a lot to survive. We
will explore the concepts of heavy
and light by pouring various
amounts of rice into containers as we
pretend to feed the small and the
large dinosaurs.

We will dip our hands in

paint to stamp the spikes
on a template of a
stegosaurus

Trace pre-writing lines to

match like dinosaurs
using pencils

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Friday

Week 3

Monday

Tuesday

Question of the Day: Can

dinosaurs run fast?
Science: The Ornithomimidae, a
meat and plant eater is said to be
one of the fastest dinosaurs that ever
lived. The Ornithomimidaes
appearance is similar to a modern
day ostrich with long limbs. We will
look at pictures of both the
Ornithomimidae and an ostrich and
note the similarities. We will watch
some video clips of things that move
fast and of things that move slow and
we will use our voices and pictures to
note which category each item
belongs in. e.g. fast cars, fast
animals, slow turtles, slow snail, slow
water, etc.
Dinosaurs Living
Question of the day? What is this?
(Display picture of dinosaur egg)
Science: Dinosaur babies hatched
from eggs. What other animals do
you know of that come from an egg?
We will play a game to match
pictures of babies that come from an
egg to pictures of their mothers.
Poem of the Week: Dinosaur,
Dinosaur Turn Around
Letter of the Week: V

We will create dinosaur

eggs by tearing and
gluing tissue paper onto a
pattern

Question of the Day: How many

dinosaurs are in this group? (Display
picture of herd of dinosaurs)
Social Studies: Many dinosaurs,
like the Deinonychuses traveled in
groups called herds. We will watch
a few video clips to see dinosaurs
traveling together in herds. We will
explore which other types of animals
travel in herds and which do not e.g.
sheep/cows/dinosaurs (herds), fish
(school), dogs (pack), cats (solo).
Math: We will examine sets of
dinosaurs and estimate the number
in each herd. We will count the
herds to determine if we were
correct.

We will cut and glue

pictures of vegetables
onto our letter of the
week V

We will hatch dinosaur

eggs made of baking soda
by using vinegar to see
the dinosaurs inside

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Wednesday

Question of the Day: What are

these? (Display picture of dinosaur
teeth)
Science: Some dinosaurs teeth did
not work as well as our teeth. To
help digest their food, dinosaurs
would swallow rocks that would
grind their food in their stomach.
These rocks would become shiny and
smooth and can be found in fossil
formations. They are called
gastroliths. We will conduct an
experiment to grind a piece of bread
from one whole piece into many tiny
pieces using a plastic bag and rocks
to represent a stomach and
gastroliths.

We will create dinosaur

footprints using
potatoes stamps and
paint

Thursday

Question of the Day: Does this

reptile have wings? (Display picture
of a Pteranodon)
Science: Just like animals that are
around today, dinosaurs had different
characteristics to help them survive
in the wild. For example, some
dinosaurs had long necks to reach
leaves in tall trees; some dinosaurs
had flat bills for mouths to scoop
water to drink.
Language arts: We will label parts
of different dinosaurs and describe
how the dinosaur used these parts to
survive e.g. legs, feet, tail, wings,
teeth, spikes, etc.
Question of the Day: What might
this book be about? (Display book
Dinosaurumpus by Tony Mitton)
Language Arts: We will read the
story Dinosaurumpus!, by Tony
Mitton and review the parts of a
book as well as what the terms
author and illustrator mean.
Creative Play: We will follow along
with our story and use our bodies to
act out some of the actions the
dinosaurs do throughout the book
e.g. stomping feet, snapping jaw,
roaring with our voices, etc. After we
finish reading our story we will listen
to the Dinosaurumpus song and act
like dinosaurs as we dance together.

We will color a picture of

a dinosaur using
markers/crayons

Friday

We will use glue and

various materials to make
costume dinosaur feet

Digging up Dinosaurs

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Week 4

Monday

Tuesday

Question of the Day: Are dinosaurs

still alive?
Social studies: Dinosaurs lived a
long time ago and are not around
today. Scientists do not know why
but one guess is that they were not
able to adapt to the changing climate
of the earth. Because the dinosaurs
did not have enough water and food
they were not able to survive.
Language Arts/Math: We will
brainstorm together and use pictures
to identify what our basic needs are
to survive e.g. food, water, sleep, etc.
We will compare our basic needs to
dinosaur needs by placing a picture
of a person or dinosaur next to those
that each requires to survive.
Poem of the Week: Dinosaur
Bones
Letter of the Week: Q
Question of the Day: What is this?
(Display picture of a dinosaur fossil)
Science: Fossils are formed when
many layers of dirt pile on top of
plants and animal bones. The dirt
gets pressed together and turned
into rock around the plant or animal
bones making a picture of the bone.
We will practice our color and
number identification skills as we
play a matching game to pair various
fossils to the objects they are made
from e.g. leaf, shell, bone
Math: We will practice how we can
use heavy and light pressure to
make imprints in play-dough using
various shapes. We will match the
shapes with their corresponding
names.

We will play a game with

water and sponges to
give the dinosaur a drink

We will make
cornstarch/clay fossils
using rocks and shells

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Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Question of the Day: Where is the

dinosaur?(Display picture of
dinosaur sitting on top of a rock)
Social Studies/Science: Because
dinosaurs lived a long time ago and
are not here anymore, scientists that
study dinosaurs, called
paleontologists, learn about these
animals by digging for their bones
and fossils deep underground.
Math: We will explore the concepts
of above and under by finding items
above the surface of the sand as well
as by digging under the surface. We
will use our one-to-one
correspondence to count the items
we find individually and as a class.
Question of the Day: Which of
these places has dinosaur bones in
it? (Display picture of Meijer grocery
store and museum with dinosaur
banner out front)
Language Arts: We will read the
book Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones,
by Byron Barton. We will look within
our story to find and observe the
stages a dinosaur bone goes through,
from excavating, cleaning and
assembly, to displaying in a museum.
We will practice our sequencing
skills as we order three illustration
cards from the book and identify
them as the beginning, middle, and
end of our story.
Question of the Day: Is this
dinosaur warm or cold? (Display
picture of dinosaur in the sun)
Social Studies: The earth was very
different when dinosaurs were alive.
The earth was much warmer. Some
places on the earth today have a
similar climate. We will use
pictures and words to compare and
contrast the characteristics of our
environment when it is warm or cold
outside.
Science: We will look at examples
of different animals, including
dinosaurs, and discuss if they are
able to live in cold weather or warm
weather.

We will trace and glue Qtips onto a template of

our letter of the week and
glue a picture of a
Quaesitosaurus
underneath it

We will glue various sized

pre-cut paper bones in
order from largest to
smallest

We will use water colors

to uncover a hidden
dinosaur image drawn on
white paper with wax or
hot glue

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