HERE WE GO DIGGING FOR DINOSAUR BONES

HOW TO USE HERE WE GO DIGGING FOR DINOSAUR BONES STORYTIME KIT

Use the link on the Virtual Storytime Page to watch

Here We Go Digging for DinosuareBones Storytime.

This page is password protected. Password has been provided by the program administrator.

After watching the storytime, use the components from the class Storytime Kits

provided by the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach to:

1. Enjoy Rhyme Cards with your class.

2. Practice the Word of the Week with your class.

3. Complete this week's craft.

4. Introduce this week's Literacy Tip into your curriculum.

STORYTIME WITH MS. JIN

Here We Go Digging for Dinosaur Bones storytime is available on the Storytime Video Access

page of this website. This page is password protected and accessible only to preschools participating in the Mandel Public Library's Virtual Storytime and Kit program.

The password has been provided to you by the program coordinator.

BOOK:

HERE WE GO DIGGING FOR DINOSAUR BONES

Read along, dig along, sing along! Young paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts
are invited on a fossil dig, set to the tune of "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush.

RHYME: ONE DINOSUAR WENT OUT TO PLAY

(Tune: Five Little Ducks)

One dinosaur went out to play.

In a giant swamp one day.

She had such enormous fun,

That she called for another dinosaur to come:

Ohhhhhhh, Diiiiinosaur!

Repeat with two dinosaurs, three dinosaurs, etc.

HERE WE GO DIGGING FOR DINOSAUR BONES WORD OF THE WEEK

Use this week's Word of the Week, dig, to extend your learning:

1. Say and trace each letter of this week's word.

2. Sound out the word letter–by-letter.

3. Think of other words that rhyme with dig. These can be real words

or made-up ones that are silly and non-sensical!

CRAFT

Make a D is for Dinosaur Craft

Materials You Receive for Each Child:

1 Yellow "D"

Dino head, tail and legs

Various dinosaur papers

1. Glue the head, tale and legs onto the D to make a dinosaur.

2. Add the different dinosaur papers onto the yellow "body" of the dinosaurs.

3. Talk about the different kinds of dinosuars that are represented.

LITERACY TIP

This storytime is a great opportunity to introduce unusual words to your preschool students.
Even young children have great ability to learn new, longer and unusual words. Here We Go Digging for Dinosaur Bones will introduce sophisticated vocabulary words like
paleontologist fossilized, and all those dinosaur names! Have your students repeat
new words and try to figure out what they mean.

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