Calling all dinosaur lovers!
If you spend your free time watching Netflix documentaries about dinosaurs, watching dino-themed TV shows, pouring over dinosaur books, playing with dinosaur toys, and wishing YOU could travel to Jurassic World, then this is the club for you!

**NOTE:  I have two age-groups for this class.  There is some overlap in age range, as some students may do better in the younger group and some may prefer the older group.  If you need help decided which is the best for your child, please reach out via private message.**

This is an ongoing, one-year course.  We meet year round with a few breaks for holidays, etc.  You can join in at any time and stay for as many weeks as you want.  The content repeats annually--so, if you join in January (or October, or May, etc) you can expect new material every week for a full year--that's a LOT of dinosaurs!

Each week, I will present a brief lesson about a featured dinosaur of my choosing.  Even when the featured dinosaur is a repeat from a different class of mine, the content and approach will be different, so you don't have to worry about it being too much "the same."

We will practice our scientific observation skills by examining illustrations of our PCOTW (Prehistoric Creature of the Week) together, looking at special attributes of each individual dinosaur.  Once we have shared our observations, students will draw (or color the provided coloring page) the dinosaur in their "field guide" journal and label it.  Weekly printed fact sheets will be provided, which students may cut out and add to their journals, as well. 

The remainder of the class will be spent exchanging dinosaur facts, sharing favorite dinosaur toys and books, and generally "geeking out" about dinos together.  We will also occasionally play related interactive games, age-appropriate movement activities, and more (see below).  Students will be encouraged to bring something dino-related to share each week (toys, books, facts, etc), and will also occasionally be provided extension activities between meetings.

In each short, introductory lesson, students will learn about the weekly featured dinosaur through a variety of approaches, such informational texts, informative slides, age-appropriate video clips, graphics, and more.  We will also intermittently add playful learning activities such as: building and sculpting, movement activities, games, discussion, repetition and more.  Vocabulary words such as paleontologist, herbivore, carnivore, timeline, mesozoic, triassic, jurassic, cretaceous, fossil, bipedal, quadrupedal,  prehistoric, extinction and more will be introduced and used during these interactive, engaging lessons.

***Access to a color printer is required for this course. ***

Upcoming themes (subject to change and posted in the classroom a day before each meeting):


Week of July 2: 2023 SUMMER FIELD GUIDE BEGINS: Summer themes may include prehistoric creatures other than dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and plesiosaurs.  We will change our passport format to a "Summer Odyssey" and meet a new prehistoric creature from each modern continent.

Week of July 2: DINO FUN WEEK (we'll kick off our summer session with games, hands-on activies, and sharing)
Week of July 9: Antarctica: Cryolophosaurus
Week of July 15: Africa: Atlasaurus
Week of July 23: South America: Aucasaurus
Week of July 30: North America: Postocuchus
Week of August 6: IMPROMPTU DINO FUN WEEK (Dinosaur Challenge Game)
Week of August 13: Europe: Thalattosaurus
Week of August 20: Asia: Xianglong OR Micropachycephalosaurus (we'll vote!)
Week of August 27: Australia/Oceania: Steropodon
Week of September 3: (NO CLASS Monday 9/4 for Labor Day) Wednesday: Everywhere: Ammonites and other prehistoric mollusks and cephalopods
Week of September 10: MONDAY (makeup class): Everywhere: Ammonites and other prehistoric mollusks and cephalopods / Wednesday: NO CLASS
Week of September 17: Last dino of the summer: We need to add a EUROPEAN Creature (since our Thalattosaurus turned out to be from somewhere else..)! (TBD)
Week of September 24: DINO FUN WEEK 

Week of October 1:  FALL 2023 FIELD GUIDE BEGINS! (weekly themes cycle on an annual basis and are subject to change based on teacher discretion)
Week of October 1: Kentrosaurus  (NO CLASS 10/6)
Week of October 8: Corythosaurus (NO CLASS Monday 10/9, Tuesday 10/10)
Week of October 15: Baryonix
Week of October 22: Atrociraptor 
Week of October 29: Skorpiovenator
Week of November 5: Amargosaurus
Week of November 12: Germanodactylus
Week of November 19 : (NO CLASS Wednesday 11/22, Thurs 11/23. Fri 11/24) DINO FUN WEEK (show and tell week plus fun Dino-themed games/challenges)
Week of November 26: Yangchuanosaurus
Week of December 3: Euoplocephalus
Week of December 10: Coelurus
Week of December 17: Ouranosaurus
Week of December 24: NO CLASS
Week of December 31: (NO CLASS Monday 1/1, Tuesday 1/2) DINO FUN WEEK (show and tell week plus fun Dino-themed games/challenges)
Week of January 7: Rajasaurus

WINTER FIELD GUIDES BEGIN Week of January 14, 2024 (Topics will be posted prior to the start of the new season)
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NOTE: Weekly themes cycle on an annual basis and are subject to change based on teacher discretion

FALL 2024 
Week of September 22:  Kentrosaurus 
Week of September 29: Corythosaurus (NO CLASS Monday 10/9, Tuesday 10/10)
Week of October 6: Baryonix
Week of October 13: DINO FUN WEEK (NO CLASS Monday, 10/14)
Week of October 20: Atrociraptor 
Week of October 27: Skorpiovenator
Week of November 3: Amargosaurus
Week of November 10: Germanodactylus
Week of November 17 : Euoplocephalus
Week of November 24: DINO FUN WEEK (NO CLASS Wednesday-Friday)
Week of December 1: DINO FUN WEEK NO CLASS Monday-Tuesday)
Week of December 8: Coelurus
Week of December 15: Ouranosaurus
Week of December 22: NO CLASS
Week of December 29: NO CLASS

WINTER 2025 FIELD GUIDES BEGIN Week of January 5, 2024 (Topics will be posted prior to the start of the new season)
Week of January 5: Rajasaurus
Week of January 12: Plateosaurus
Week of January 19: Incisivisaurus
Week of January 26:  Yangchuanosaurus
Week of February 2:  Quilmesaurus
Week of February 9: Concavenator
Week of February 16:  Riojasaurus
Week of February 23: Moros Intrepidus
Week of March 2: Dreadnoughtus
Week of March 9: Nothosaurus
Week of March 16: IMPROMPTU DINO FUN WEEK (dino-themed games, trivia, etc)
Week of March 23: Arizonasaurus

SPRING 2025 PASSPORT BEGINS: 
Week of March 30:  Scorpius Rex (hybrid from Camp Cretaceous)
Week of April 6: Megaraptor
Week of April 13: DINO FUN WEEK (NO CLASS Wed-Friday)
Week of April 20: DINO FUN WEEK (NO CLASS Monday-Tuesday)
Week of April 27: Kronosaurus 
Week of May 4: Deinonychus
Week of May 11: (NO CLASS) 
Week of May 18: Giganotosaurus
Week of May 25: Psittacosaurus
Week of June 1: Ornithocheirus
Week of June 8: NO CLASS
Week of June 15: Dakosaurus

Summer 2025
Week of June 22: 
Week of June 29: