September 27, 2017 Story Time - Fossils

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did:

*marks the books we read

Big Old Bones - A Dinosaur Tale  by Carol Carrick*
Fossilized! Dinosaur Fossils  by Kathleen Connors
Dig Those Dinosaurs  by Lori Haskins Houran*
Unearthing Fossils  by Tamra B. Orr
Monster Bones: the Story of a Dinosaur Fossil  by Jacqui Bailey
Fossils Tell of Long Ago  by Aliki

For our craft we pressed toy dinosaurs into salt dough to make fossil imprints

Extra activities

10 Little Fossils
One little, two little, three little fossils
four little, five little, six little fossils
seven little, eight little, nine little fossils
ten little fossils buried underground

Then we counted back down to zero

September 20, 2017 Story Time - Woolly Mammoths & Mastodons

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did:

*marks the books we read

Thank you to the firefighters from the Antonia Fire Protection District for being our readers today!

Why Why Why were mammoths woolly?  by Mason Crest Publishers, Inc. *
A Mammoth in the fridge  by Michael Escoffier
Mammoths and Mastodons  by Susan H. Grey
Mammoth and Me  by Algy Craig Hall*
Wild and Woolly Mammoths  by Aliki
How To Wash a Woolly Mammoth  by Michelle Robinson*

For our craft we colored a picture of a woolly mammoth, then glued black and brown yarn to it's body to make it look woolly

Extra Activities
The Mammoths in the Ice Age
(sung to "Wheels on the Bus")
The mammoths in the Ice Age went
toot, toot, toot,
toot, toot, toot
toot, toot, toot
the mammoths in the Ice Age went
toot, toot, toot
all around the land

Repeat with other verses:
The tiger in the Ice Age went growl, growl, growl
The wolf in the Ice Age went howl, howl, howl
The ground sloth in the Ice Age moved slow, slow, slow

September 13, 2017 Story Time - Ice Age

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did:

*marks the books we read

The Ice Tracker's Guide  by Adrian Lister*
The Great Ice Age  by Christopher Maynard
Why, Why, Why Were Mammoths Woolly?  by Miles Kelly Publishing
Ice Age Giants  by Steve Parker*
Ask A Dinosaur  by Olivia Brookes
Giant Ground Sloth  by Michael P. Goecke

For our craft we put together a dinosaur bone puzzle like this:
https://goo.gl/OlIh3W


Extra activities
We talked about the animals that lived during the ice age like: saber tooth cats, mastodons, woolly mammoths, etc

Hands on Shoulders
Hands on shoulders, hands on knees
hands behind you if you please
touch your shoulders, now your nose
now your chin and now your toes
hands up high in the air
down at your sides and touch your hair
hands up high as before
now clap your hands - one, two, three, four

Put your hands up high (sung to "Do Your Ears Hang Low")
Put your hands up high
put your hands down low
put your hands in the middle and wiggle them so
put your elbows to the front put your elbows to the back
put your elbows to the side and
quack! quack! quack!

September 6, 2017 Story Time - Dinosaurs

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did:

*marks the books we read

Dinosaur Bones  by Bob Barner*
Dinosaurs of All Sizes  by Dr. Alvin Granowsky
Dinosaur Parade  by Shari Halpern*
What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night a very messy adventure  by Refe & Susan Tuma*
Dinosaur!  by Peter Sis
Dinosaur Explorer  by Dougal Dixon*
How Do Dinosaurs Go Up and Down?  by Jane Yolen
Amazing Dinosaur Facts  by Leonie Bennett
Touch and Feel Dinosaur  by DK

For our craft we made a dinosaur using a lower case letter "d" like this one