Unit Theme: Dinosaurs

Curriculum Goals: Logical Thinking

Curriculum Objectives: #27 classifies objects, #28 Compares/measures #29 arranges objects in series

Daily Routine	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Individual Planning
Arrival Routine Planning Centers	Open Snack Toothbrushing After looking at new materials in the room, will dictate plan to teacher	Open Snack Toothbrushing journals	Open Snack Toothbrushing Dinosaur rubber stamps/ letters to spell word “dinosaur”	Open Snack Toothbrushing Dinosaur stencils
Morning Meeting Book Finger plays	Dinosaur Bones	Library Day How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight	Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones	Tyrone the Horrible
Outdoors Gross Motor	Sidewalk chalk Climber	Giant Bubbles Balance Beam	Hoops and Balls Neighborhood Walk	Bat and Ball Gym Day
Free Choice Discovery Time	Sand table Playdough Size order Dino’s	Small dino’s frozen in ice cubes in pan of water	Dinosaur graph	Dinosaur counters w hoops/ sort & count
Art Experience	Big paper and big brushes	Paint large egg shape	Big Circle Printing: large paper and lids from pots & pans	Sponge painting with dinosaur shaped sponges
Small Group	Dinosaur Dominoes	Dinosaur Lotto	Stegosaurus hats	Large Dinosaur floor puzzles
Large Group Music/Movement Story Time	THE PTERANODON'S WINGS WENT FLAP, FLAP, FLAP,	5 Enormous Dinosaurs T Rex mouth activity	Oh I want to be a great big dinosaur!	Dino Ditty, Ditty Dum Ditty Do
Lunch Routine Transition Activity	Dinosaur, Dinosaur Where’s your bone (go wash hands after turn)	Move like a pteranodon, t-rex, apatosaurus to line up	5 Enormous Dinosaurs (child takes one away and goes to wash hands)	Use stretchies and Mozart to transition to group
Weekly Materials to Enhance the Environment
Literacy/Library/Writing Upper and lower case magnetic letters Alphabet rubber stamps KWL about dinosaurs		Numeracy/Math Manipulatives Dinosaur counters, Size order Dino’s T Rex mouth activity Graph dinosaurs by attributes (spikes, number of legs they stood on, etc.)		Discovery/Science Volcano w/ clay, baking soda and vinegar T Rex mouth activity
Computer Read about dinosaurs at http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html Sammy’s Science House		Blocks Large dinosaurs, dinosaur sounds mat, dinosaur scene poster		Sensory/Sand/Water Bones and small dinosaurs in sand table Playdough w/ alphabet cutters Small dino’s frozen in ice cubes
Vocabulary Dinosaur names, paleontologist, extinct, volcano, fossil		Dramatic Play Dinosaur Landscape: use tent to make a cave, sculpt palm tree from paper, large dinos, paleontologist hats, tools, maps		Health/Safety/Self-Help Talk about safety outdoors while on neighborhood walk
Family/Community Partnership Invitation to Mother’s Event PICL folders Alphabet Books Book-it		Multicultural Exposure After reading How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Talk about how people might say it in different languages ( Italian, Spanish, German)		Outdoor/Gross Motor See Safety Chalk, bubbles, balls, hoops
Special Guests/Activities/Field Trips Dinosaur egg hunt: we will hide a dinosaur egg (large melon, covered in foil and painted white) on the playground. We will use a map to hunt for the dinosaur egg. See my Dinosaur Activity Page for activity descriptions