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Free Play in Learning Centers: Set out dino-related activities: puzzles, lacing cards, play dinosaurs, etc.
Circle Time: Circle Time learning songs, jobs, pledges. Intro Letter D, #4, square, color brown. Review letters/numbers/shapes/colors learned previously. Read "My D Book." Have children gather 4 of one item from around the room. See what squares they can find around the room. Read a book borrowed from the library and, if time, a book about dinosaurs.
Activity (language, cognition, imagination): Print pictures of the following and cut them into cards: doctor, dime, doughnut, dolphin, door, daisy, doily, deer, dish, diamond, duck, dog, dinosaur. Lay the cards face down in a pile. Let each child take a turn choosing a card. The child will try to describe what is on the card (make sure the children realize the word being described must start with the D sound). The other children then try to guess what the D word is that is being described.
Transition Song: Everybody line up, line up, line up; everybody line up like a dinosaur; not on the ceiling, not on the floor; everybody line up at the door!
Restroom/Snack
Bible: Lesson ideas taken from: http://ministry-to-children.com/abraham-sarah-preschool-lesson/
Our need to trust God and wait for Him to keep His promises. God always keeps His promises. Abraham and Sarah want a baby. Songs: Father Abraham. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. My God is So Big. Watercolor Art: Paint by number stars.
Group Lesson: Read a book about dinosaurs. Math Activity: Print out a picture of 20 dinosaurs and 20 dinosaur bones out of construction paper. Place 1 to 20 dots on each dino and number the bones with the numerals -20. Have the children match the number of dots on the dinos with the corresponding numerals on the bones. For younger children, use only the dinos and bones 1-10. Teach the Fingerplay: Five enormous dinosaurs
Letting out a roar--
One went away, and
Then there were four.
Four enormous dinosaurs
Crashing down a tree--
One went away, and
Then there were three. Three enormous dinosaurs
Eating tiger stew--
One went away, and
Then there were two. Two enormous dinosaurs
Trying to run--
One ran away, and then there was one. One enormous dinosaur,
Afraid to be a hero--
He went away, and
Then there was zero.
Taken from: http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/dinosaur.htm
Restroom/Lunch/Rest
Gross Motor: Relay race: "dinosaur eggs" on spoons.
Art/Fine Motor: Give each child a printout of the letter D. Cut out "D's" from old magazines or newspapers. Glue them inside the large letter "D." I will also print out some letter "D's" from the computer in case the children have difficulty finding all the D's the would like. The children could also cut out pictures of things that start with the letter "D" sound.
Free Play in Learning Centers/Review/Pack up/Dismissal
September 27, 2013 Letter D Theme: Dinosaurs Number: 4 Shape: Square Color: Brown
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Free Play in Learning Centers: Set out dino-related activities: puzzles, lacing cards, play dinosaurs, etc.
Circle Time: Circle Time learning songs, jobs, pledges. Review A, B, C, D and1, 2, 3, 4 etc. Read a dinosaur book and discuss. Discuss fossils. Finger Play: I’m a Mean Old Dinosaur (Tune: I’m a Little Teapot). I’m a mean old dinosaur (make mean face), big and tall (gesture hands big/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 grrooowwwlll). Look out kids, I’m on the prowl (Here I tickle each one of their tummies and they all giggle).
Transition Song: Everybody line up, line up, line up; everybody line up like a dinosaur; not on the ceiling, not on the floor; everybody line up at the door!
Restroom/Snack
Bible: From devotional: Growing with Jesus . Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Give thanks whatever happens. Read the devotional and talk about times when it is difficult to be positive and thankful, and discuss ways we can be happy even when things are not going like we want: think about blessings, such as family, friends, pets, nice schools and neighborhoods. Do something nice for someone else.
Group Lesson: Fall: What makes the leaves turn colors?
FACTS ABOUT TREE LEAVES from: http://www.preschoolexpress.com/discovery-station12/why-leaves-change-color.shtml
Trees are busy during Spring and Summer soaking up sun, water and oxygen.
They use these three items to make their own food and to make Chlorophyll.
The Chlorophyll coats their leaves with green, all Spring and Summer.
But in the Fall, the weather changes; the days are shorter with less sunshine and the days are dryer with less water.
Soon the tree does not have enough sun and water to make both it's food and Chlorophyll, so it stops making Chlorophyll and the leaves return to its natural color.
Here are a few things you may want to teach your preschoolers about leaves and trees.
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Green leaves contain chlorophyll which helps them use the sun to
make food for the plant.
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Some trees have leaves that change colors in autumn and later fall
off.
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Other trees stay green all year and are called evergreen trees.
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During winter the trees that have lost their leaves make buds,
which will open as new leaves in spring.
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Additional Science Lesson
Ideas
Observing Leaves: Collect leaves from
different types of trees and place them at your science center. Provide hand
lenses for your students to use for observing the leaves. Let the children draw
what they see in their science notebooks or on blank sheets of paper. While the
children are observing, help them name the parts of the leaves that they see,
like the veins and the petiole, the stalk that connects the leaf to the plant.
Sorting: Take you students on a walk to collect leaves. Give
each student a bag to keep his leaves in and instruct the children to find
about ten leaves. When you have finished, return to the classroom and give the
children a few minutes to look at their leaves. Ask them to tell you what they
notice about their leaves. What colors do they see? Are the big or small? Do
they have curved or pointy edges? Then show them how to sort their leaves into
groups. If sorting is a relatively new concept, you will probably want to give
them the categories for sorting, such as color, size or shape. Have them sort
their leaves a few different ways. You may also want to provide them with glue
and large piece of paper, so that they can save their favorite way to sort.
For another sorting
activity find pictures of different kinds of trees, both evergreen and
deciduous. Then let the children sort the pictures by which trees have leaves
that change colors and which ones stay green all year.
Comparing Size: Cut pieces of card stock or poster board into
rectangles and squares that are about the size of leaves found near your school.
Give each child a shape and then take the kids outside for a leaf scavenger
hunt. Challenge the children to try to find a leaf that almost fills up the
space of their shape. It should be both as long and as wide as their shape.
Once they have found one, check it and if it just about fills the space, give
them a new shape to fill.
Leaf Graph: After looking at pictures of different colors of
fall leaves, let the children vote on which color leaf is their favorite
and then make a simple picture graph to show the results.
Restroom/Lunch/Rest
Gross Motor: Leaf
Games
Leaf Toss Parachute Game: Use a large bed sheet or a parachute. Place
leaves (real, paper or fabric) in the middle and have the children lift the
sheet/parachute slowly up and down to see the leaves float. Try shaking until
all the leaves are off! Rake the Leaves: One is the rake and he must run around and "rake" (or catch) the leaves. When he tags a leaf it sticks to his "rake" or hand and now the two run after and catch the other leaves one by one. It gets funny when a herd of kids are running after the other loose "leaves". When all the "Leaves are caught another "Rake" takes over. I showed them beforehand how to rake leaves and they all get in a group with the rake and stick together. This way there is more running of everyone and they stick together by holding hands (sometimes) or just running in a group together.
Art/Fine Motor: Leaf Art
Handprint Leaves: Materials Needed: finger paint in fall colors, paper
Show the children how to dip their hands lightly into a shallow tray of paint and then press their hands on the paper. Repeat over and over for a beautiful Foliage collage of handprinted leaves!
Leaf Bracelets: Before going outside, wrap a piece of masking tape, with the sticky side out, around each child's wrist. While outside, have the children add pieces of leaves and twigs to the tape for a fall bracelet!
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September 30, 2013 Letter D Theme: Dinosaurs Number: 4 Shape: Square Color: Brown
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Free Play in Learning Centers: Set out dino-related activities: puzzles, lacing cards, play dinosaurs, etc.
Circle Time: Circle Time learning songs, jobs, pledges. Review A, B, C, D and1, 2, 3, 4 etc. Read a dinosaur book and discuss. Discussion: Would a Dinosaur Be a Good Pet! Why and Why Not? Write down their answers on a white board. Do a Dinosaur Fingerplay and a Leaf Fingerplay. What would it sound like if a dinosaur walked through a pile of leaves? Look at pictures of dinosaurs and discuss which dinosaurs may have been able to eat leaves off of the top of a high tree.
Explain carnivore: meat eater; herbivore: plant eater
The following questions were answered by dinosaur expert
Don Lessem. From: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/dinosaur-diet?pImages=n&x=57&y=15
A: If dinosaurs were alive today, some would try to eat us, but most would be plant-eaters. I think we could outsmart the nasty ones and probably outrun most of them!
Q: The archaeopteryx had bird hips (right?)
but it ate insects. Is it true that all bird-hipped dinosaurs were vegetarians
and if so, what's the deal?
A: I'm not sure what the deal is either. Archaeopteryx was the first bird, descended from a dinosaur. What you eat doesn't make you one kind of animal or another.
A: I'm not sure what the deal is either. Archaeopteryx was the first bird, descended from a dinosaur. What you eat doesn't make you one kind of animal or another.
Q: Do you think T. rex was a predator or a
scavenger?
A: Both is more likely. Big carnivores today, from lions on down, are inefficient hunters and scavenge more often. Scavenging is more energy efficient. There were huge herds of triceratops and duckbills in T. rex's time, so plenty of ill, aged, young, and dead to feed upon without much dangerous and draining hunting effort. Dr. Jack Horner and I wrote a book all about T. rex, including this issue, for adults, called The Complete T. rex which I think your kids would like (Simon & Schuster). But I'm prejudiced. I wrote an article on this subject for Newsweek two years ago as well. I deal with the quality of Bakker's science, and the issues of extinction, warmbloodedness, and much of current dinosaur research in a book I wrote three years ago called Dinosaurs Rediscovered (Simon & Schuster). I hope you can find these.
A: Both is more likely. Big carnivores today, from lions on down, are inefficient hunters and scavenge more often. Scavenging is more energy efficient. There were huge herds of triceratops and duckbills in T. rex's time, so plenty of ill, aged, young, and dead to feed upon without much dangerous and draining hunting effort. Dr. Jack Horner and I wrote a book all about T. rex, including this issue, for adults, called The Complete T. rex which I think your kids would like (Simon & Schuster). But I'm prejudiced. I wrote an article on this subject for Newsweek two years ago as well. I deal with the quality of Bakker's science, and the issues of extinction, warmbloodedness, and much of current dinosaur research in a book I wrote three years ago called Dinosaurs Rediscovered (Simon & Schuster). I hope you can find these.
Q: Were most dinosaurs plant-eaters or
meat-eaters?
A: Most of the 335 kinds of dinosaurs ate plants, and about 100 kinds ate meat. But in any place, there were far greater numbers of plant-eaters than meat-eaters, just like today.
A: Most of the 335 kinds of dinosaurs ate plants, and about 100 kinds ate meat. But in any place, there were far greater numbers of plant-eaters than meat-eaters, just like today.
Q: Which dinosaurs were
bigger plant-eaters or meat-eaters?
A: Plant-eaters by far. T. rex and giganotosaurus, the biggest meat-eaters, were 7 or 8 tons and 45 feet long. The biggest plant eaters were 100 tons and 110 feet long!
A: Plant-eaters by far. T. rex and giganotosaurus, the biggest meat-eaters, were 7 or 8 tons and 45 feet long. The biggest plant eaters were 100 tons and 110 feet long!
Q: How many pounds of eggs did the
oviraptor eat in a day?
A: We don't know how many pounds of eggs oviraptor ate, since it didn't leave a shopping receipt. Actually, we don't know if it even ate eggs. Its name means "egg eater," but it was given that name because it was found on top of a nest of eggs. Scientists back in the 1920s thought it was eating those eggs. We found out recently when more oviraptors were found, and one was straddling a nest of eggs, including an embryo, that that oviraptor was there because the eggs were its own babies that it was taking care of! Oviraptors have been found with lizard skeletons in their stomach openings. So they probably ate lizards more than eggs. How many lizards a day, I don't know.
A: We don't know how many pounds of eggs oviraptor ate, since it didn't leave a shopping receipt. Actually, we don't know if it even ate eggs. Its name means "egg eater," but it was given that name because it was found on top of a nest of eggs. Scientists back in the 1920s thought it was eating those eggs. We found out recently when more oviraptors were found, and one was straddling a nest of eggs, including an embryo, that that oviraptor was there because the eggs were its own babies that it was taking care of! Oviraptors have been found with lizard skeletons in their stomach openings. So they probably ate lizards more than eggs. How many lizards a day, I don't know.
Q: How do we know for sure which dinosaurs
were plant-eaters and which were meat-eaters?
A: All four-legged dinosaurs were plant-eaters. Some two-legged ones were too. Beyond that, tooth shape is a good clue. Notched teeth were meat-eater teeth.
A: All four-legged dinosaurs were plant-eaters. Some two-legged ones were too. Beyond that, tooth shape is a good clue. Notched teeth were meat-eater teeth.
Q: How did brachiosaurus get so big by
eating plants and not meat?
A: Plant-eaters got far bigger than meat-eaters maybe because they needed huge bellies to digest all that tough plant food. You can make a good diet from vegetables, you know.
A: Plant-eaters got far bigger than meat-eaters maybe because they needed huge bellies to digest all that tough plant food. You can make a good diet from vegetables, you know.
Q: What kind of foods did the dinosaurs
eat?
A: Most dinosaurs ate plants, just like most animals today. But some ate meat. We also guess that some ate insects and fruits. The plant-eaters ate ferns and herbs and leaves from trees. Conifer-tree needles have been found in the poop of duck-billed dinosaurs and around their stomach cavities, so they probably nibbled on evergreens.
A: Most dinosaurs ate plants, just like most animals today. But some ate meat. We also guess that some ate insects and fruits. The plant-eaters ate ferns and herbs and leaves from trees. Conifer-tree needles have been found in the poop of duck-billed dinosaurs and around their stomach cavities, so they probably nibbled on evergreens.
Q: How much food could a T-Rex eat in a
day?
A: We can't be sure. Big meat-eaters today like lions eat a lot at one time and then might not eat again for a week! T. rex could bite off 500 pounds in one bite! Maybe it ate a few hundred pounds of triceratops one day and then didn't eat again for a while. We'll never know.
A: We can't be sure. Big meat-eaters today like lions eat a lot at one time and then might not eat again for a week! T. rex could bite off 500 pounds in one bite! Maybe it ate a few hundred pounds of triceratops one day and then didn't eat again for a while. We'll never know.
Q: How did the dinosaurs eat?
Why was the T. rex a carnivore?
A: Dinosaurs ate plants for the most part, because they were built to chew and grind plants with their teeth or rocks in their stomachs. Meat-eaters, like T. rex, had sharp, sawing teeth for cutting meat, so they ate other dinosaurs, either dead or alive.
Why was the T. rex a carnivore?
A: Dinosaurs ate plants for the most part, because they were built to chew and grind plants with their teeth or rocks in their stomachs. Meat-eaters, like T. rex, had sharp, sawing teeth for cutting meat, so they ate other dinosaurs, either dead or alive.
Q: Were there omnivorous dinosaurs?
A: Probably, but we don't have any proof. We find plants in the poop and belly areas of some dinosaurs so we know that's what they ate, and lizards in the belly area of others and tooth marks on dinosaur bone to show us meat-eaters ate dinosaurs and reptiles. It's been speculated that small meat-eaters with varied teeth, like troodon, were built to eat a variety of foods. And toothless meat-eaters, such as the ostrich-like ornithomimids, may have eaten eggs, or fruits, or insects too. So odds are yes, but proof is lacking so far.
A: Probably, but we don't have any proof. We find plants in the poop and belly areas of some dinosaurs so we know that's what they ate, and lizards in the belly area of others and tooth marks on dinosaur bone to show us meat-eaters ate dinosaurs and reptiles. It's been speculated that small meat-eaters with varied teeth, like troodon, were built to eat a variety of foods. And toothless meat-eaters, such as the ostrich-like ornithomimids, may have eaten eggs, or fruits, or insects too. So odds are yes, but proof is lacking so far.
Q: Why did the sabertooth tiger want to eat
the woolly mammoth?
A: Sabertooth tigers and woolly mammoths lived long after dinosaurs, so I'm no expert on them. Sabertooths were meat-eaters and so woolly mammoths might have been among their prey, I'd guess. Then again, woolly mammoths were so big that maybe sabertooths didn't risk going after them. Also, sabertooths had very narrow and long tusks. They might have been better equipped for scavenging eating things already dead then hunting.
Transition Song: Everybody line up, line up, line up;
everybody line up like a leaf; not on the ceiling, not on the floor; everybody
line up at the door!A: Sabertooth tigers and woolly mammoths lived long after dinosaurs, so I'm no expert on them. Sabertooths were meat-eaters and so woolly mammoths might have been among their prey, I'd guess. Then again, woolly mammoths were so big that maybe sabertooths didn't risk going after them. Also, sabertooths had very narrow and long tusks. They might have been better equipped for scavenging eating things already dead then hunting.
Restroom/Snack
Bible: Teach a new Bible song
Group Lesson: Handwriting Letter D; Social/Emotional Lesson: Read “Dinosaurs Don’t, Dinosaurs Do.” Hand out Weekly Reader from Scholastic and discuss.
Gross Motor: Leaf Games
Leaf Toss Parachute Game: Use a large bed sheet or a parachute. Place leaves (real, paper or fabric) in the middle and have the children lift the sheet/parachute slowly up and down to see the leaves float. Try shaking until all the leaves are off!
Rake the Leaves: One is the rake and he must run around and "rake" (or catch) the leaves. When he tags a leaf it sticks to his "rake" or hand and now the two run after and catch the other leaves one by one. It gets funny when a herd of kids are running after the other loose "leaves". When all the "Leaves are caught another "Rake" takes over. I showed them beforehand how to rake leaves and they all get in a group with the rake and stick together. This way there is more running of everyone and they stick together by holding hands (sometimes) or just running in a group together.
Art/Fine Motor: Leaf Art
Leaf Printing from: http://www.preschool-plan-it.com/fall-leaves.html
Materials Needed: Fall colored leaves; paint in fall colors; brushes; paper
Children paint the leaves.
Show them how to turn them upside-down and press onto the paper.
If only a thin layer of paint is put on, they will see the veins of the leaves on their prints as well!
Leaf Bracelets: Before going outside, wrap a piece of masking tape, with the sticky side out, around each child's wrist. While outside, have the children add pieces of leaves and twigs to the tape for a fall bracelet!
Free Play in Learning Centers/Review/Pack up/Dismissal
Five Little Leaves
5 Little leaves so bright today. Were dancing about on the tree to play.
The wind came blowing through the town,
And one little leaf came falling down.
Continue with 4, 3, 2 and then 1.
Soaking up rays - and oxygen.
See the trees roots – how they grow down,
They’re soaking up water – from the ground.
They’re soaking up water – from the ground.
Using these three elements – and making them just so,
The tree makes its own food – so that it can grow.
But when it has extra – oxygen, water and sunThe tree makes its own food – so that it can grow.
It also makes Chlorophyll – just for fun.
It coats its leaves with Chlorophyll – so now they all - green.
And all through the summer, - they have a lovely sheen.
But when the days grow shorter – and the earth begins to dry,And all through the summer, - they have a lovely sheen.
All the things the tree needs – are now in short supply.
So the tree stops making – Chlorophyll at all
And then the leaves return - to their own color - in the Fall.
Jean Warren
And then the leaves return - to their own color - in the Fall.
Jean Warren
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