Is your child an overactive dinosaur who’s struggling in school? They distract their peers and don’t listen to the teacher, messing up their learning. Concentrating on the teacher’s lecture is difficult.
It takes more than discipline. It takes training. Control your energy, sit quietly, limit interruptions, and put up a quiet hand to ask questions in class. Iguanadon will help jump-start kindergartners’ brains so they stay focused in class.
Iguanadon’s got the skills to stop classroom disruption and keep them on task. Think of this as a little dinosaur training camp. Fun but educational too! Iguanadon can help with these common obstacles to success in school. In this article, kindergartners will learn more about how to be successful in school with the help of the Iguanadon puppet.
Dinosaur Learning Lesson: How to be Successful in School
This lesson is all about how to be successful in school. Classes use an Iguanadon puppet to teach children various skills, which will prepare them for the academic environment. Being successful in school will help children be just as successful in life.
Engage Phase
The Iguanadon will be essential in supporting students’ ability to engage with their lessons. Students must be able to listen effectively, then wait silently before raising a hand with a question.
Students also need to avoid interrupting the teacher or each other while sharing ideas. Finally, students must learn how to respond when others share their thoughts. The Iguanadon can support these skills by engaging students both physically and cognitively.
Sometimes, a student’s greatest strength can be their biggest weakness. A kid who has always been on the honor roll and has excellent test scores may have grown accustomed to catching the teacher’s eye with a hand raised in the air.
In a small class, it’s easy to pick out this student and call on them. One way to get their attention in a class of thirty-plus students is through various engaging activities to follow in the classroom.
Engage Activity 1: Story Video
The activity uses an Iguanadon story video as its stimulus. This activity promotes cooperation among the children so they can work together as a team and carry out a task assigned by their teacher.
Engaging the children is one of the most challenging parts of teaching, but it’s also one of the most important. The first step to getting them on your side is presenting yourself as a friendly and approachable authority figure. Next time you’re giving instructions, take a second beforehand to think about how you can set the tone for positive interaction.
Address each child by name when you speak to them, and let them know that you care about their opinion—maybe by asking if they have any questions. Ask them to help you. And don’t forget: rewards work wonders.
When students feel like they’re contributing to something positive, they’ll feel more invested in it—it’s simple psychology. And don’t just reward with grades or praise—rewards can be creative and tailored to each student’s personality.
Engage Activity 2: Questions and Answers
In this fun game, Iguanadon teaches the kindergartners how to be successful in school. To make this game work, the children must do what Iguanadon says. If Iguanadon tells them to stomp, they must stomp. If Iguanadon tells them to jump, they must jump. And so on.
Iguanadon’s rules are simple: If he says anything, the children must do it. If he doesn’t say anything, they don’t do anything. The teacher starts by asking each of them a question and then telling Iguanadon to answer the question. Whoever gets the answer from Iguanadon right will receive an extra point for the day.
Study Phase
Many kindergarten teachers and parents are familiar with the Iguanadon. This friendly dinosaur has been a popular focus for children trying to learn how to stop, think, and check their work for years. When your child is learning new things, he needs to focus on the task.
The Iguanadon represents a dinosaur that knows how to pay attention. He is not watching the other dinosaurs or looking out the window but instead staying focused on his work. The Iguanadon can help young minds learn to stay on task despite their environment’s people, pets, and other distractions.
Study Activity 1: Dinosaur Field Guide
The teacher wants her kids to be enthusiastic and engaged in the study phase, so she’ll read them a transcript about Iguanadons. As she reads, she’ll ask them questions about the transcript. These questions will help her assess how much the students understand the reading.
Afterward, the teacher will see which students can identify which facts are in the text. Ask questions encouraging students to think critically and express their opinions, like “What do you think about the issue?”
“Picture matching” is a great method used by teachers to test students’ knowledge of a story. For example, they might show pictures of an egg, an Iguanadon hatchling, an Iguanadon as it grows up, and an old Iguanadon. The kids who can make these connections successfully have demonstrated an understanding of the story.
Finally, once all the students have finished answering their questions, the teacher can give feedback to each child and tell them which answers are right and wrong. Students who answer incorrectly can get more information as they work with their peers to understand what they read. This activity has many benefits for both teachers and children.
Study Activity 2: Worksheet
Iguanodon is a friendly dinosaur who likes to stay active and healthy. He has a club called the Nature Trackers Club (the club is for kindergartners). The club members aim to improve and increase their fitness levels by doing challenges. Children must complete challenges such as walking, jumping, and running certain distances to join.
Activate Phase
When students participate, they learn. The point of this project is to encourage students to learn about the Iguanadon and dinosaur extinction and how it happened. You might have seen that there is an activity called “Activate” that you can use if you see that your class isn’t paying attention.
They are doing something other than what we want them to do, like talking in their seats or throwing paper airplanes. We need to change our classroom dynamic for a few minutes so that the students send their energy in a good direction rather than the negative one.
Activate Activity 1: Dinosaur Songs for Kids
The teacher must create an atmosphere conducive to learning, which children can do through songs and nursery rhymes. To stimulate participation, the children should quickly learn the song’s words, repeat phrases of interest, and have an energetic rhythm.
Stick with this activity long enough, and you’ll notice an increase in the children’s concentration and attention span as they learn how to focus their minds on learning.
Activate Activity 2: Dinosaur Crafts
The teacher will teach the kids how to build a volcano, which will be fun because they will do something different. The kindergartners will watch an educational video that will help them learn about volcanoes.
The video will be about one minute long, and the kids can rewatch it many times until they understand what to do. Once the kindergartners have learned what to do, they can start working on building the volcanoes. The Iguanadon puppet will be the judge to nominate the winner.
Funtime at Home: Educational Games
Dinosaur games are one of the best types of games for kids. They are not just fun but also very educational. Kids learn about different types of dinosaurs, appearances, and habits through these games. Children need to know about dinosaurs as it will help them to understand more about the world around them. There are many benefits of playing dinosaur games with your kids at home. Here are some of them:
Help Toddlers Develop Social Skills
Dinosaur games can help kids learn how to interact with others positively. They will learn how to follow directions from other children and adults and play along with them without fighting or arguing with each other.
Help Kids Develop Communication Skills
The main goal of these educational games is for the players to communicate with each other using visual cues like facial expressions and gestures. This method helps them learn how to express themselves through words and nonverbal communication methods such as hand gestures or facial expressions.
Help Kids Develop Problem-Solving Skills
These educational games encourage children to think about different solutions for each puzzle or challenge during gameplay. These games will help them improve their problem-solving skills over time.
Improve Memory Skills
One of the main benefits of playing dinosaur games is that it improves your child’s memory skills. While playing these games, children will remember different facts about dinosaurs, like their names, how they lived and where they lived, etc. Games will help them to develop their memory skills in a fun way.
Boost Concentration Levels
While playing dinosaur games at home or outdoors with your kid(s), you will notice that they will concentrate more on whatever activity they are doing at that time rather than doing nothing or running around without any purpose. You will see them trying hard to win against another player.
The Dinosaur Fun Corner Library
Dinosaur fun corner is a library of educational resources dedicated to dinosaur fans everywhere. Enter the world of dinosaurs and explore a wide range, including story videos, field guides, worksheets, songs, and more.
Dinosaur Field Guide: Iguanadon (Iguana Tooth)
Iguanodon was a giant, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Europe during the Cretaceous. It was the first dinosaur ever discovered. It was so named because it resembled an iguana. The generic name Iguanodon means “iguana tooth.” Iguanodon had a long, heavy tail and strong hind legs. Its front legs were shorter and had two toes on each foot.
The shorter front legs may be an adaptation to digging. The fingers had enormous claws to dig in soft ground or strangle leaves from trees. Iguanodon had a thumb spike on each hand that they may have used for defense or to help it balance while walking on two legs.
The teeth of Iguanodon were very different from their relatives in the duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs). Iguanodon’s teeth were more like those of modern mammals because they helped it chew its food thoroughly before swallowing. Paleontologists believe that Iguanodon may have been able to chew its food, something many other plant-eating dinosaurs couldn’t do.
Scientists have discovered more than one hundred fossils of Iguanodon, including fossil teeth, partial skeletons, skulls, and skin impressions. 
Story Video: Silly Walks With Iggy the Iguanodon
The story of the Iguanodon dinosaur for the engage phase.
Dinosaur Songs for Kids: Dinosaurs in the Snow Song
A song about dinosaurs for the activate phase of learning.
Dinosaur Crafts: Build a Volcano
When the crust of the Earth collapses, magma forms volcanoes. The hot fluid makes its way through cracks beneath the Earth’s surface until it can find an outlet at the surface.
Worksheets: Nature Trackers Club Guidebook
It’s a fun club guidebook where kindergartners can receive member tokens for challenges they have completed.
Educational Games: Air Show
An educational game to teach children about dinosaurs and the prehistoric era.
Dinosaur Final Thoughts
It is up to a child to make school a fun place, and some children do just that. When put into context, Iguanadon’s advice is excellent for the classroom. If children work hard and use their imagination, the classroom can be enjoyable, even with dinosaurs involved.
Children can learn from the dinosaur’s story, and it’s perfect for students who need to take a little more initiative. If they make the most of their time in school and treat it as an opportunity to grow and learn, it becomes possible to do anything.
