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Learning Goal: Bones provide evidence that dinosaurs lived long ago. I have bones like dinosaurs.- Reading= How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen, Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones by Byron Barton and The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino. Letter of the day: D is for dinosaur.
- Science= How do we know that dinosaurs used to live here? Feel the bones under your skin. Show pictures of skeletons (both dinosaur and human). Look for bones (or puzzle pieces) buried in oatmeal using a paint brush as a tool. Once all the puzzle pieces have been uncovered, complete the puzzle. Emphasize that putting together a dinosaur skeleton is much like putting together a puzzle.
- Art= Make “fossils” of your handprint using some modeling clay. Paint a dog biscuit white like a dinosaur bone; hang it from a necklace. Or, make a human skeleton by gluing Q-tips (representing bones) and cotton balls (a skull and hip bones) to dark paper. Fine art= Auguste Rodin's The Thinker. Sculpt dinosaurs from play dough (just like Rodin).
- Play= Have a dinosaur egg hunt then play with the baby dinosaurs you find. Use string to measure the length (or height) of your favorite adult dinosaurs. Or, visit your local dinosaur museum.
Fun fact: The largest dinosaur (barosaurus) was approximately 80 feet in length. Interestingly, modern birds may have evolved from a lineage of small dinosaurs called theropods.
