After looking at dinosaur sizes, your little paleontologist can explore dinosaur bones and dinosaur fossils. Here is Digging Up a Dinosaur Graveyard by National Geographic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzcMnb0yhxA
Science
After viewing the fossil video, let’s make our own fossils. For this project, you need (1) Commercial play dough, (2) toy dinosaur, (3) shallow plastic container, (4) ziplock bag, (5) plaster of Paris, (6) Scissors, and (7) water.
Have you child push play dough at the bottom of the container, covering the whole bottom. Press the plastic dinosaur toy into the play dough. Take the dinosaur out. Put 4 oz of plaster of Paris with 2 oz of water In the ziplock bag and mix. Pour the mixture over the play dough and let it dry. Once dried, peel off the play dough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On4cOQDBycs Enjoy your fossil!
If your child has a nature journal, ask him/her to draw a picture you could date and label.
Language Arts
Here is a book called Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones by Byron Barton. After reading the story, ask your child to build a dinosaur with Penne Noodles or other pasta you have.
Math
For this number game, you need: (1) print the number line https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/math-pattern-number-line/desktop-number-line, (2) 2 dice and (3) marker.
To play the game, have your child roll a die and cross out the number corresponding to the dots on the dice on the number line page. The goal is to try to cross out all the numbers from 1-6. If you want to try a harder game, you can play with both dice and help your child to figure out which number(s) to cross out.
For this Memory game, you need (1) to print dinosaur patterns for letters of the alphabet https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/literacy-activity-matching-letters/give-a-roar-3, (2) scissors, and (3) a marker.
Write the capital letters you want on the dinosaurs twice to make pairs with a marker and cut them out. Place the dinosaurs with capital letters face down and ask you child to find 2 dinosaurs with the same capital letter. Or you can simply use the dinosaur letters in a sorting game too.
Art
For this silhouette dinosaur project, you need (1) dinosaur pattern cut on black construction paper https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/dinosaur-patternsbr-9-pages/02_daybydaypre_dinosaurs, (2) white construction paper, (3) scissors, (4) glue and (5) watercolor.
Ask your child to cover the white construction paper with watercolor (rainbows, lines, etc.) and help your child to cut out a dinosaur in black construction paper to glue on the watercolor page.
For this hand dinosaur project, you need (1) a dinosaur pattern (See above project) out of construction paper, any color, (2) scissors, (3) glue, (4) a piece of construction paper, (5) a marker or googly eye, and (6) paint for your child’s hands with a brush.
Help your child to cut and glue the construction paper dinosaur. Give it a mouth and an eye. Paint your child’s hand and help him/her to place hand on the back of the dinosaur.
Small Motor Skills
Matching numbers to a set https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/back-to-school-worksheet-matching-numbers-to-sets/for-the-teacher
Triceratops Triangles https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/math-worksheet-identifying-triangles/triceratops-triangles
Dinosaur Skeletons – Dinosaur Bones Pattern https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/dinosaur-bone-patterns/dinosaur-skeleton
Gross Motor Skills
Movement Song: “All Around the Swamp” (Tune of “Wheels on the Bus”)
The Pteranodon’s wings went Flap, flap,flap,
Flap,flap,flap
Flap,flap,flap
The Pteranodon’s wings went Flap, flap,flap, all around the swamp.
The Tyrannosaurs Rex went Gr, Gr, Gr…….
The Triceratop’s horns went poke, poke, poke,……..
The stegosaurus’ tail went swing, swing, swing,……
The Brontosaurus’ neck went reach, reach, reach,……
The dinosaur teacher said fold your hands, fold your hands, fold your hands,…