Toddler Time

Dirty, dirty dinosaurs invaded our story time today!  My friend "J", his grandpa and I had a blast playing in the mud with the dinosaurs!

First we read the book, I'm a Dirty Dinosaur by Janeen Brian & Ann James.  We took the time during our story to locates the letters, S, M, T, O, W & P.  We also made many predictions before we turned to the next page.

Then it got MUDDY!!! We took our dinosaurs and got them dirty just like in the book!  The fun of our mud was that it was chocolate pudding mud. My friend "J" wasn't too eager to get dirty but once "papa" and I joined in his fears eased a little.

He was quite surprised when I told him he could lick his fingers!  

Just like in the book, our dinosaurs needed to be washed! "J" seemed to like the water play more than the mud.  

"J's" favorite part of the day seemed to be when we read the book, Hello Dinosaur, by Dwell Studio. We read it three times!  Each page we turned he excitedly made the connections between the dinosaurs we played with and the dinosaurs in the book.  He is such a clever boy! His favorite is the triceratops!