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Is your young dinosaur shy to ask questions or say something to a friend? Your child is seeking validation and acceptance from others. They often don’t know what to say or how to start the conversation. Your child needs help to overcome that fear.
Learning to talk with others by watching others also makes it easy for your child to learn and build confidence. Children who have difficulty negotiating friendships often later have problems making friends as adults.
Encourage your child to practice by sitting in front of a mirror and asking questions. Your child will learn to be confident with their friends and no longer be afraid of going out and socializing with other children.
When it comes to the age of children, they are the most vulnerable members of society. So to make sure that they become safe and confident, we need to teach them how to behave well. But how do we go about it? This article will explain how teachers can use effective material like a Brachiosaurus dinosaur to teach children some of the values they need while in school.
Dinosaur Learning Lesson: How to Talk With Friends
Communication skills are essential for children to develop as they grow older. Teachers can help kindergarteners by providing helpful tips to boost their communication skills at school and at home.
Engage Phase
As we all know, making friends and getting along with other children is essential to growing up. The friendly Brachiosaurus puppet is excellent for helping kindergarteners with conversational skills. It enhances their ability to make friends and get along with other children.
People who listen well make others feel understood and respected. It is something we teach our children as soon as they can understand language. We talk about staying attentive and letting others speak without interrupting or judging.
For a child to learn how to hold a conversation, they need first to be able to ask questions and then later understand the answers given. Brachiosaurus does this by asking open-ended questions that require more than a yes or no answer. He also uses non-threatening language, making the students feel less anxious about conversing.
These skills are essential because it can be difficult for young students still learning about social interaction to feel like they can express themselves freely if they are nervous. By alleviating their pressure, Brachiosaurus allows them to open up. He encourages by repeating questions and adding extra words like “great” and “cool” while listening.
Teachers can use this method to help the children realize that they’re giving good answers and reinforces their confidence in themselves. And finally, the Brachiosaurus puppet promotes listening skills by commemorating what his partner says as an essential point of information. The question-and-answer format helps kids understand the concepts and encourages them to ask questions.
Engage Activity 1: Questions and Answers
Students often have difficulty talking with each other because they’re afraid of saying something wrong. Using a Brachiosaurus puppet can help students realize that it’s okay to make mistakes when learning to talk to others. In this engaging puppet activity, students will learn how to answer a question and tell them something about themselves so that the other person will have an easier time remembering what they said.
A unique way that teachers can teach kindergartners how to talk to friends is by using a Brachiosaurus puppet as a model. The teacher will hold the puppet and talk to the children. Here’s how:
The teacher holding the puppet will ask the children questions about themselves, such as “What’s your name?” “Where are you from?” “How old are you?”
The children will respond by telling the Brachiosaurus puppet information about themselves, for example, “My name is Sandra, and I’m from Chicago.”
After each response, the teacher holding the puppet should ask another question, such as “What grade are you in?” or “What school do you go to?”
When it’s clear that everyone has learned how to respond to questions, change things up. The teacher holding the puppet may ask questions that aren’t directed at anyone specifically—for example, “Do you like turtles?” or “Do you have any pets?” It is essential to let everyone participate and to encourage shy children.
Study Phase
It is not easy to be a teacher. A teacher must be constantly aware of their student’s needs. There are so many things going on in their heads while they are in the classroom with their teachers. They learn how to solve their problems and how to communicate them.
There are two essential words that students should know. One is “sorry,” and the other is “thank you.” These two are already very important for a teacher because kids can quickly develop a feeling of jealousy, especially when it comes to their classmates.
Their simple minds might not understand that everyone has different skills and capabilities when learning something new. Some people learn faster than others, but everyone learns perfectly at his or her own pace.
Teachers should also teach their students what it means to say sorry when they do something wrong or do not like someone else’s behavior or action towards them. Children need to learn how to apologize when they have done something wrong because this can prevent them from doing evil acts or saying bad words in the future. These social skills can also help them become more responsible as adults.
Brachiosaurus puppet
You might be surprised at how many social lessons children can learn from a friendly Brachiosaurus puppet. Use the puppet as a mouthpiece to teach the children valuable lessons. For example:
- Imagine playing with a friend, and you let someone else trips over a small rock by accident. You say “sorry” to the other person who tripped and helped them. That is a straightforward apology to give.
- But what if someone tells a hurtful joke about your friend in front of an entire class? It would be more challenging to apologize in this situation because so many people are watching.
A good rule of thumb is to apologize to the person you offended when it is just the two of you and then make amends with the rest of the group later. Your friend will appreciate seeing you work things out with everyone else after apologizing to them directly.
- When you want to compliment someone, make sure that your words reflect your feelings. If they don’t know that they impressed you, they won’t have a chance to do it again. And remember: only say nice things about people when they aren’t around to hear it.
Study Activity 1: Dinosaur Field Guide
Research shows that the strongest indicator of a child’s academic achievement is the number of words they are exposed to before age four. Children who hear more words learn more words, and an abundance of language in their early years can set them up for success later in school.
Listening Skills
The purpose of this activity is for the students to practice their listening skills, increase their vocabulary and comprehension of the Brachiosaurus, and, most importantly, enjoy listening to an exciting story about dinosaurs.
Hearing it read aloud will help them understand what words sound like, which will help them when it comes time to learn to read later on. Early exposure to written language will also help boost a child’s brain development and foster curiosity about the world around them.
Vocabulary
Without even reading the transcript, there are a lot of words that may be unfamiliar to young students. Sharing these words with your students will help them expand their vocabulary. The more words they know, the better they will understand what is happening in the story.
Comprehension Skills
This transcript would be a great way for your students to practice their comprehension skills. They could try to answer questions about what happened in the story or predict what might happen next. They become better readers and listeners as they understand what is happening in the story.
Activate Phase
The Activate phase is a critical step in social and emotional learning. It’s when students are taught how to take a proactive approach to develop friendships rather than waiting for someone else to come to them. Students should participate in activities that help them get out of their shells and interact with others.
Young children will have already learned how to get along with their peers in group settings at school, but they’ll still have plenty of opportunities to make new friends—if they follow the right steps.
The teacher can use the Brachiosaurus puppet in the classroom to help children to practice different situations. Through puppetry, kindergartners can learn how to enter into a group of children who are already playing. Puppetry is also a great way to teach kindergartners to make a suggestion rather than give commands.
The first step is learning how to enter into a group of children who are already playing. The kids who know each other best tend to huddle together and play alone. A teacher can help a child learn how to join in by making suggestions rather than giving direct orders.
Instead of saying, “Go play with them,” say something like, “Those girls look like they’re having fun at that table. If you go over there, you’ll find some people who want another player.” If the child does end up playing with someone he doesn’t know well, this strategy can also help him break away from the group without hurting anyone’s feelings.
The second step is learning to make a suggestion rather than give commands. Young children need to be able to articulate their feelings and desires clearly. When they’re younger, it’s best not to force them into situations where they have to say no. It can take practice for kindergarteners before they can respond well in situations involving saying yes.
Activate Activity 1: Dinosaur Crafts
Activities for the classroom should lead to learning, but they also need to be balanced with fun. This activity is simple and can be customized to the age level of your students. Start with an empty brown paper bag, two paper plates (one smaller than the other), some glue, and the brachiosaurus worksheet. Allow children to glue the plates together around the edges of the bag.
Once dry, have children cut out their tails and glue them to their backsides. They can make different kinds of dinosaur puppets. The students will then use their dinosaur puppets during playtime or story time as props. This activity is great because it allows students to practice using their imagination while reinforcing friendship skills in a low-pressure environment. 
Funtime at Home: Educational Games
Educational games are entertaining, interactive, and a great way to keep your children engaged as they practice skills they need to learn. It’s a fun way to improve the child’s hand-eye coordination and attention while reinforcing memory and encouraging creativity.
The Dinosaur Fun Corner Library
Arts and crafts, music, and movement are essential stepping stones for preparing children for the challenges of formal education. Let’s take a look at some opportunities for fun activities that will benefit a child’s lifelong learning.
Dinosaur Field Guide: Brachiosaurus (Arm Lizard)
Brachiosaurus—or “arm lizard”—was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. A Brachiosaurus could grow to be more than 80 feet long and have a long tail for balance. Its four legs were also quite long; its front legs were longer than its back legs, but each limb ended in a five-fingered foot.
The Brachiosaurus was built like a giraffe with longer legs and a long neck. That long neck makes this dinosaur unique: it probably used that neck to reach leaves on trees that no other dinosaur could.
It weighed over 30 tons and stood around 20 feet tall. Its nostrils were located far up the snout, which would have allowed it to smell from farther away than most other dinosaurs of its time.
This smelling capability helped the massive herbivore avoid predators and find food more efficiently. It had nostrils on both sides of its head, which may have improved its sense of smell even more.
Story Video: It’s the Brachiosaurus Brunch!
Story videos can help improve children’s vocabulary and social skills. Watching videos are a fantastic way to keep your kids entertained while learning. It is a very effective way to interest your kids in different topics.
Dinosaur Songs for Kids: Time for a Tiny Ditty! | SONGS
The lyrics are simple enough for children to understand but filled with a ton of information that gets absorbed into the mind of young children. Teachers can use dinosaur songs as a fun educational tool in many different ways.
Dinosaur Crafts: Make a Stegosaurus Puppet
Dinosaur crafts will allow children to express their creativity while learning simultaneously. These crafts have a visual appeal, making them even more appealing to kids.
Worksheets: Dinosaur Train Trading Cards
The only difference with a worksheet is that it provides a logical structure to follow rather than just randomness. While focusing on drawing a brachiosaurus or designing a new T-Rex nest, your kid is practicing his spatial manipulation abilities, creativity, and memory recall.
Educational Games: Opening Ceremony
Dinosaur educational games allow children of all age groups to learn more about dinosaurs, which interests many 5-year-olds. These games are an excellent stimulant for the child’s imagination, curiosity, and intelligence development and are perfect for developing fine motor skills.
Dinosaur Final Thoughts
In conclusion, vivacious kids require social skills to engage safely with others. These skills include listening and taking turns, staying on topic, resolving conflicts, and tolerating other people’s views.
Introducing kids to the Brachiosaurus dinosaur that’s not like them (and has odd habits) makes preschoolers feel less judged by their peers and friends, making it easier for teachers to discuss important social concepts
