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For my next storytime I am doing the ever popular DINOSAUR theme; thought I would share the things I am doing and some more fun resources.
DINOSAURS ROAR!
1.      Intro myself and theme

2.      Music/Movement:
“Shake Your Sillies Out,”  #13, Raffi’s More Singable Songs

3.      Rhyme/Flannel Board: ??

4.      Book 1: Dinosaurumpus!, Tony Mitton, illus. Guy Parker-Rees

5.      Book 2:  Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp!, Margaret Mayo, illus. Alex Ayliffe
6.      Music/Movement: “T Rex Boogie,” #12, A T Rex named Sue (782.42TRE)

7.      Book 3: Dinosaur Days, Linda Manning, illus. Vlasta Van Kampen OR
If the Dinosaurs Came Back, Bernard Most (BIG PICTURE BOOK)

8.      Prop Story: Snappy Dinosaurs OR Dinosaur Stomp: A Monster Pop-up, Paul Strickland

9.  Music/Movement: Music: We Are the Dinosaurs (from The Best of the Laurie Berkner Band)

Other Possibilities:

Books:
Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, Mo Willems
Dinosaur vs. Bedtime, Bob Shea
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food, Jane Yolen, Mark Teague
All Aboard the Dinotrain, Deb Lund
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Bob
Dinosaur Roar!
Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins 
Dinosaurumpus!
Harold and the Purple Crayon: Dinosaur Days
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
A Boy who wants a Dinnosaur
Can I have a Stegosaurus?
Curious George and the Dinosaur
Dinorella
Dinosailors, Deb Lund
Dinosaur Egg Mystery
Dinosaur's Binkit
How do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
I Dreamt I Was a Dinosaur, Stella Blackstone and Clare Beaton
The Littlest Dinosaurs Big Adventure, Michael Forman
Missing Dinosaur Bone
Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
Ten Little Dinosaurs
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

Songs:
If You’re Happy and You Know It: Dino Edition
Add a few dino moves into the usual song, for example, “If you’re happy and you know it gnash your teeth!”
Dino-Pokey
(Tune: "The Hokey Pokey")
You put your claws in,
You take your claws out,
You put your claws in,
And you scratch 'em all about.
You do the dino pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!
You put your feet in
You put your feet out
You put your feet in
And you stomp them all about.
You do the dino pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!
You put your teeth in
You put your teeth out
You put your teeth in
And chomp them all about.
You do the dino pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!
You put your tail in
You put your tail out
You put your tail in
And you wag it all about
You do the dino pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!

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