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Kindergarten – 3rd Grade program -- Taking a trip back in time -- mixing non-fiction & fantasy, science & math, biographies of the girl who first discovered dinosaurs, and the very important concept that we are always learning new things about what we thought we knew!
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Prehistoric Actual Size (J560 JENKINS) Steve Jenkins' wonderful collage pictures depict creatures from 450 to 3 millions years ago -- long before humans! -- 2 ft. long dragonflies and 3 ft. long millipedes, huge teeth and claws, great back-matter. Speaking of scale, booktalked: If Dogs Were Dinosaurs (513.24 SCH) More math: How High Can a Dinosaur Count? & Other Math Mysteries (PicBk FISHER) – more math ideas: http://bedtimemath.org/?s=dinosaur
Fossil Girl – Catherine Brighton (Graphic novel = comic) Vocabulary: "fossil" = "stone bones", "intriqued" = "fascinated" 1st dinosaur bones found by a 12 year old girl 200 years ago! --> Mary Anning became a great fossil finder and her finds helped lead to Darwin's Origin of Species. (Common Core – compare with other versions: e.g. Mary Anning & the Sea Dragon -- Jeannine Atkins, Stone Girl, Bone Girl – Laurence Anholt, Rare Treasure – Don Brown, Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter -- Sally Walker, Fossil Hunter - Cheryl Blackford (all JBiog. ANNING))
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs! (J567.9 KUDLINSKI) (dinosaur detection, warm bloodedness? feathers & fur? what caused their demise...knowledge always changing with new scientific discoveries…docent at Natural History Museum…major changes every 3 years!)
Puppet/Song/Story: “There’s a Dinosaur Knocking at my Door” – from album Happiness Cake by Linda Arnold (lyrics here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/02/preschool-storytime-dinosaur-roar.html) -- did this earlier in the program for kindergartners.
Booktalked: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs – Mo Willems (PicBk WILLEMS) fun fractured fairy tale, Miss Smith Reads Again – Michael Garland, Chalk (Pic Bk THOMSON)...magical chalk...what would they draw?
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Additional great read-aloud non-fiction:
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (J567.90228 KER) ...investors dining in model head of a dinosaur, pieces of giant dino models buried under Central Park! Did Dinosaurs have feathers? J568.22 ZOE, Did Dinosaurs Eat Pizza? Mysteries Science Hasn’t Solved J567.9 HOR
Next year? If I Had a Triceratops - George O'Connor (2015)
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/dinosaurs/dino-mummies.html
Bedm. 1/07,1/10, 3/12, 3/15
A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard by Julia Lyon
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