If I had a dinosaur

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A young girl dreams of having her own pet. She wonders what animal would be best for her. Of the three most common pets, she likes dogs, has a cat, and a fish is simply too wet! The girl, still in pajamas, bounces on her bed—where a toy green dinosaur sits—and finally decides, she wants “a pet much bigger, more the size of, well, A HOUSE!”

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Alex Barrow is a London-based illustrator. He is the art director for and a regular contributor to OKIDO magazine. All in all, a delightful book about imagination, about pets and dinosaurs, about dreams! I would recommend it. Paragraphs, just like hamburgers, have multiple parts needed to properly make one. That is the metaphor that this Hamburger Paragraph Writing Template aims to convey to your kids. Each part of the hamburger represents a different part of a paragraph, such as the top bun representing the introduction and main idea of the paragraph. When your child is consistently able to recognise the rhyming words in the story you can then encourage him or her to come up with a word. You can say “Can you think of another word that rhymes with ‘school’ and ‘cool’?”. Now available as a board book: a witty and charmingly illustrated bedtime story about a little girl who imagines what it would be like to have a dinosaur of her very own. Now available as a board book: the award-winning illustrated bedtime story about a little girl who imagines what it would be like to have a dinosaur of her very own.

Dinosaurs can come in all shapes and sizes. When you are teaching your kids about them, some of the dinosaurs may appear adorable to your kids. With this If I Had a Pet Dinosaur Writing activity, you can have your kids channel those sentiments into imagining what their dinosaur pet would be like.

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I have read lots of people calling out on the stereotypically represented Asian characters, but I excuse this aspect as the illustrator himself is of South Asian descent. You and your child should then create/ draw/ paint your own dinosaurs and then take it in turns to describe the dinosaurs to each other. So. Darn. Cute. As regular readers know, JJ is a fan of dinosaurs – you may have even noticed her loyal reading buddy, Mr. Dinosaur. And from the first appearance of the sweet-faced, bright-green dino of the books, she was delighted. It’s a fun twist on the familiar “unusual pet” theme, with a few details that make it stand out. The bouncy rhyming text is jaunty and fun to read aloud; the simple, cheerful illustrations are cute and colorful, and filled with clever little details for sharper-eyed readers (see if you can find the fun nod to the Harry Potter universe); and it features a multi-racial cast, including a protagonist of color and her family. One content warning: there is an entire spread devoted to the question of how to clean dino-sized droppings with an unsubtle depiction of such (think the poop emoji with no face). But if that doesn’t bother you, you’re in store for a cheery read. The length was fine, JJ AND Mr. Dinosaur loved it, and it’s definitely Baby Bookworm approved!A little girl dreams of having her very own pet. But what kind of animal would make the best companion? A mouse is too small; a cat is too ordinary; and a fish is too... wet! As she plays with her toy dinosaur, inspiration strikes. What about a real, live dinosaur? She could ride it to school. It would need lots of food to eat, a swimming pool to drink from, and a dino flap so it could come and go. At the end of a day spent busily imagining, the girl trudges up to bed with her little plastic dinosaur. As she falls asleep, the dinosaur from her daydreams stands in the garden with its head poking through the bedroom window, making her dreams come true. About the Author This Creative Writing Prompts worksheet is an excellent resource to use to get your kids to practice their writing skills and develop their creative thinking skills. There are four different scenarios included in this resource. Each one has an image of an item, such as a banana or a train, and a prompt about the image. Your kids can answer the prompt however they wish in the space provided.

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In online images, the color of the Asian children seems less offensively yellow than it does in the printed book in front of me. Maybe this is an issue with how the color turned out in the printing of the book. That, however, does not explain the eyes. Looking again at this book, I'm reminded of the Cousin Chin-Kee character from American Born Chinese.stars. My toddler and I love this book. Some of the cadences are slightly off, but the illustrations and representation (a girl of colour who loves dinosaurs!) make up for it. If I Had A Dinosaur – Read by Eddie Redmayne Here are my top If I Had A Dinosaur activities you can do with your child to help support his/her speech & language development: A little girl wishes ever so desperately that she could have a pet, but she's unsure about what kind of pet she would like. A mouse is too small, a cat is too ordinary, and a fish too wet. While playing with her her toy dinosaur, inspiration strikes. What if she could be the owner of a real-life dinosaur? She then day dreams about all the things she could do with her pet dinosaur. As another reviewer pointed out, this book is great except for the three small illustrations of Asian children that are unsettling. The other children in this book are brown, tan, peach, i.e. realistic colors. The Asian children are a greenish yellowish color that looks out of place. Their eyes are slanted lines while the other children's eyes are circles. It's jarring.

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Inspire your kids’ creative thinking skills with this If I Had a Pet Bunny Writing Activity for K-2nd Grade. This activity asks your kids the hypothetical question, “If you had a bunny, what would you do?” There is enough space provided in the sheet for your kids to write down how they would take care of this bunny. There is also a portion for them to draw what their bunny would look like.On your second and third readings of the story you can point out the rhyming words as you come across them e.g. “Listen. ‘park’ sounds like ‘bark’. ‘Park’ and ‘bark’ rhyme. The end of the words sound the same”. Using a big piece of paper and crayons, encourage children to draw a dinosaur perhaps filling up the paper with a ‘big’, ‘giant’, enormous dinosaur with a ‘super long’ tail. Sing a song