Dinosaurs -- 7/14/26

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am. A monthly virtual Story Time is posted the first Tuesday of the month on the library's Facebook page.  It is available to view for one month before the next video is posted.

Click HERE for this month's virtual Story Time.

Tyrannosaurus Wrecks! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night by Refe & Amy Tuma

Books:
Chill Chomp Chill by Chris Ayala-Kronos
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen
The Stompysaurus by Rachel Bright

T Is For Terrible by Peter McCarty
We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

Craft: Standing Dinosaur

- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Cut out pieces (body, legs)

- Color pieces

- Fold legs in half and then cut along dotted line

- Slide body into slit in legs to stand

Extension Activities:

- Have fun with building and wrecking.  Build a block tower as tall as you can before wrecking it.

- Design a Dinosaur Trap that would be able to keep dinosaurs from making trouble.

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DiNovember: Week 4 -- 11/26/24

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am. A monthly virtual Story Time is posted the first Tuesday of the month on the library's Facebook page.  It is available to view for one month before the next video is posted.

Click HERE for this month's virtual Story Time.

Tyrannosaurus Wrecks! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Some Dinosaurs Are Small by Charlotte Voake
Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Edna the Very First Chicken by Douglas Rees

Books:
Bigger Than You by Hyewon Kyung
The Dinos on the Bus by Peter Millett
Dinosaurs Don't Have Bedtimes! by Timothy Knapman
How to Be a T. Rex by Ryan North
I'm Bad! by Kate McMullan
T is for Terrible by Peter McCarty

Craft: Standing Dinosaur

- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Color and cut out pieces

- Fold legs in half and cut along dotted line to make slits

- Slip the folded legs onto bottom of dinosaur's body to make it stand

Extension Activities:

- After reading Tyrannosaur Wrecks, have a discussion with your child about how the wrecks in the beginning of the book are different than the ones at the end.  What makes them different?  Why would reactions to those wrecks be different?

- Hold a dance party to go along with reading Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Edna the Very FirstChicken.  Ask your child to dance like different kinds of dinosaurs.  Make sure to include the Chicken Dance.

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Favorite Books of 2014: December 29-30, 2014

Books:
The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water by Gemma Merino *
Duck, Duck, MOOSE! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen *
Hickory Dickory Dog by Alison Murray *
My Teacher Is a Monster! No, I Am Not. by Peter Brown
Ninja! by Aree Chung
Peek-A-Boo Bunny by Holly Surplice *
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

Craft: Dragon
I don't have a picture or template to share of this project as it was hand-drawn.  The kids colored a dragon's body and wings before gluing the wings to the body and then gluing on tissue paper flames.

Literacy Extensions:
- Explore the original "Hickory Dickory Dock" and other nursery rhymes.
- Ask your child for his favorite books from this year.  Have them articulate why they liked certain books and disliked others.

Notes:
I was amazed at how much the kids really liked Duck, Duck, MOOSE!.  I was afraid that it didn't have enough story to go with it.  Turns out that they liked it almost as much as the similarly written book Moo! by David LaRochelle.