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Monday, February 4, 2013

Preschool Storytime: Dinosaurs!

Tuesday's storytime will be Dinosaurs!  Here's the plan:

1. Hello Song: Glad to See You by Peter and Ellen Allard
2. Letter of the Day: "D" 
3. Read Dinosaur Roar by Paul Stickland 

4. Sing 10 Big Dinosaurs (sung to 10 Little Indians - courtesy Perry Public Library)
1 big, 2 big, 3 big dinosaurs
4 big, 5 big, 6 big dinosaurs
7 big, 8 big, 9 big dinosaurs
10 big dinosaurs: roar, roar, roar (the "roar" part is my addition)

10 big, 9 big, 8 big dinosaurs
7 big, 6 big, 5 big dinosaurs
4 big, 3 big, 2 big dinosaurs
1 big dinosaur: roar, roar, roar

5. Flannelboard:    Five Little Dinosaurs (rhyme and pictures courtesy Mel’s Desk)
One dinosaur went out to play
On a giant fern one day
She had such enormous fun
That she called for another dinosaur to come:

Raise hands to cup mouth, and call loudly: Oh, Diiiiiiiiiinosaur!
Slap hands on thighs to make “running” sounds.

Two dinosaurs went out to play…
Three dinosaurs…
Four dinosaurs…

Five dinosaurs went out to play
On a giant fern one day
They had such enormous fun
That they played until the day was done!




These are my versions.  I love how they turned out.  Still need a fern though...

6. Sing We Are the Dinosaurs by Laurie Berkham and follow the song's motions (inspiration: Book & Boogie)

7. Read Dinosaur vs Bedtime by Bob Shea 


8. Sing The Wheels on the Bus
9. Sing Goodbye by Old Town Folk Music
10. End with handing out each kid a coloring page and stamping their hands with a dinosaur.

How it went:

A fairly successful storytime.  My group was mostly full of older preschoolers and I think they got a little bored at the end.  Storytime usually swings young, so this was a surprise for me and I didn't bring a backup story.  Dinosaur vs. Bedtime didn't quite have the reception I was hoping for.  However, doing "We are the Dinosaurs" was so incredibly fun.  We marched in a circle and it was so very cute.  I'm going to have to do that again.  

The 5 Little Dinosaurs went over super well too.  The kids loved calling out "oh dinosaur" and stomping.

I also decided to sing a dinosaur version of "If you're happy and you know it".  It was totally unplanned and not well orchestrated, but fun anyway.  

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