Diggin for Dinos

Learning Board

Letter  Y

Color brown

Shape- cone

Numeral- 41-44


Name Practice- binder

Monday-

Story: 

Poem:  Grid Game

Alphabet Study: Beginning Sounds

Letters from the Alphabet

Fine Motor: Felt Lacing Shapes (plus hanging up the dino banner)

Science: Volcano

Math: Dino Erasers
Write on plastic eggs and add that many dinos to it.

Art: Dino Window Art I grabbed these at Dollar Tree and Target

Writing: Tracing Cards

Theme/Life Skills: Dino Stomp (from GoNoodle)

Tuesday

Story: 

Poem: Label T Rex

Alphabet Study: Dino Clip It

Fine Motor: Chocolate Chip Excavation

Science: Fossils (Make ahead of time using salt dough)

Math: 10 Little Dinos

Art: Dough Impressions 
We are going to make our own using playdough)

Writing: Dino trace 

Not the same, however THESE are free :)

Theme/Life Skills: Dino toys

We're bringing out our dino toys, both big and small.

Thursday

Story: 

Poem: Dino Alphabet

Alphabet Study: Dino Egg Sort

Fine Motor: Dino paint prints

Science: Light table dinos

Math: Dinos

Art: My Letter Book

Writing: Salt Tray

Theme/Life Skills: Scissor Skills

Friday

Story:

Poem: Dino Story Bots

Alphabet Study: Letters Song Have Fun Teaching

Fine Motor: Dino erasers in ice cube tray
You could roll a number cube and add that many dinos to that spot.   Or younger ones, roll and fill one dino in a spot.

Science: Dino slime grabbed from Target.

Math: Dino Number Sense

Art: Directed Drawing

Writing: Tara West Letter Tracing

Theme/Life Skills: Dino bones sort

Making salt dough

Make sure that you check here for Pocket of Preschool's dino video.  Loved it!   Video 1    Video 2

Past units

Dino 2016   

Dino Week 1  

Dino Week 2

Shopping List:

Hard Chocolate Chip cookies
Flour
Salt


Toothpicks
Clothes Pins
ice cube trays
plastic eggs

All About the Alphabet

Learning Board-

Letter A

Color brown

Shape- square

Numeral- 3


Name Practice-
CCBB Letters

Monday-

Story:  CCBB

Poem: Listen to Song

Alphabet Study: Hand Motions

Fine Motor: ABC Punch Sheet

Science: Coconut Sink/Float

Grab a real coconut and see if it floats or sinks :)
Open it up and explore. Taste!

Math: Number Punch Cards

Art: Letter Daubers

Writing: Light Table Letters

Theme/Life Skills: Sting Letters

Tuesday

Story: Gunnywolf

Poem: Letters from the Alphabet

Alphabet Study: Bingo Game

Fine Motor: Find Your Match

Science: Build a coconut tree (click here to watch a video)

Math:  ABC puzzles in rice
Grab your favorite alphabet puzzle and your choice of filler (rice/sand/beans)

Art: Tree Craft

Writing: Tracing A

Theme/Life Skills: Bean Bag Toss on Boarders
These boarders came from Dollar Tree
Toss a bean bag on chart, child says what the letter is.

Thursday

Story:Cheeky Monkey

Poem: Number Formation Poem
Write on dry erase board.

Alphabet Study: Magnet letters target

Fine Motor: ABC Sorting Mat

 

Science: Pool Letter Stack

Math: LeapFrog Concentration game

Art: #3 play dough 

Writing: Tracing 

Theme/Life Skills: Letter Pop smorgie

Listen to a cute song called Letter Pop!

Friday

Story: Eating through the Alphabet

Poem: Square Shape Poem song

Alphabet Study: Fabric Letters Match with boarder

Fine Motor: Pinning Sheet

Science: Magnetic Letters Sensory Bin  

I grabbed my wands at Dollar Tree.

Math: Sort letters based on # in box

I am going to take a large piece of construction paper and divide it up and write numbers as shown below.

Art: Crayon Rubbings *Make*

I will be making three different ones:

Square 3 A

Writing: Easel writing with markers/pencils/crayons

It's a good idea to have kids try different angles to write on.

Theme/Life Skills: Make Pretzel Letters
Maybe we will just use bread sticks!

Shopping List:
Coconut real
Pool Noodle
Breadsticks (tubes in fridge section)
Magnetic Letters
Magnetic Wand
Hole Punch $0.97 at Walmart
Brown Pom poms
Craft sticks
TP roll
Balloons