Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs (Harry and the Dinosaurs)

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Harry and his friend Charley play a game of superheroes together. Afterwards when Charley invites Harry to a dance party, he declines, saying "Superheroes are way too busy fighting crime, and saving the planet to dance". The dinos lead Harry on an adventure in Dino World that will prove to him that Superheroes and dancing can be a great fun! You’ll even find ways to work on your class’s fine motor skills with these pencil control sheets . The children will love helping the different dinosaurs find their way around the mazes. These colouring sheets will reinforce the children’s colour recognition and is good practise for them to stay between the lines. After watching a movie about the life of a Cleopatra, the gang go to Dino World to make Patsy Queen. The other dinos grow a little restless, and want to play a game that is a little more interesting and includes treating everyone as equals. Patsy then decides to have a chariot race, and learns that playing with the other dinos is much more fun than being waited on hand and foot. Harry wants to do lots of things all at once so instead of choosing one activity he goes to Dino-World to replicate himself so that he can do them all. The play-doh clones of himself that Harry creates aren't much fun for the dinos to play with. The story ends with Harry learning the value of pacing himself and taking part in one activity at a time. Harry is frustrated at losing games to Sam, Mom, and Nana, so he visits Dino-World where he makes up lots of games and wins every time. To find out who is the ultimate winner, the dinos invent a new complicated game, but after the game has taken them on a fun journey all over Dino-World they realise that winning isn't important as long as they are having fun.

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Harry is impressed when he learns that Firemen don't just put out fires, they also rescue people. In fact, he's so impressed that he decides to become a fireman himself - in Dino World! Whilst in training, Harry and the dinos learn all about the importance of good communication and teamwork. Harry accidentally smashes his mom's favourite china teacup. Harry, Charley, and the Dinos are unable to fix it themselves so they take it to Dino-World to try to repair it. Unable to do so, Harry is forced to admit to his mom that he has broken it. As a thoughtful gesture, Harry replaces the cup with a homemade cup.

Harry wishes he could help out more with the decorating and so goes to Dino World to see if he can practice his skills there. Whilst in Dino World the gang bump in to their dino friend, Nancy the Nanosaurous whom somehow seems to attract more than her fair share of Calamity. However, as they all work together as a team, with a little trial and error and a flood of orange soda, Harry and his friends manage to successfully transform Dino World. Harry is curious to know what a 'quest' is after he sees Sam reading a book about Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece. Where Fire wills drawer Murmel Below Mom is explaining, Nana mentions that Mom's birthday is coming up and Harry and the Dinos decide to go to Dino World to embark on a quest of their own to find the perfect birthday gift. Harry and the Dinos are having a great time making shadow puppets in Harry's bedroom – until their shadows disappear into Dino World... Fortunately, shadows love to play hide and seek almost as much as dinosaurs, and so follows the greatest game of hide and seek that Dino World has ever seen! But with their ability to hide almost anywhere, the shadows aren't going to make it easy for their more solid counterparts to find them!

When Harry thinks his delicious cookie has been stolen he goes to Dino-World where he plays at being a detective searching for the thief. After much searching, and a court trial, Harry realises that, much to his embarrassment, he had actually eaten the cookie himself! Harry isn't allowed to join Sam's band because he's not very good at playing the drums. He goes to dino-world where he and the dinos gather together to play various percussion instruments. Pterence leaves the group because he can't keep time so he goes off to a cave by himself. He learns to play some great rhythms based on the sounds of nature around him. Harry and the dinos miss Pterence and go to find him, they are very impressed by what he has learnt. Harry and the Dinos have set up camp in the living room and it reminds Mom of the time when she went camping with the Nature Guides. She shows them her collection of Guide badges and it inspires Harry and the Dinos to go on an a real camping trip and earn their own badges. The intrepid explorers head to Dino World where they embark on an adventure to find The Lost Falls and get some badges along the way. But with pesky bugs and scary monsters to contend with, Harry and the Dinos learn that it's not always as easy as it might seem to earn a badge! Whilst playing in the yard with Charley, Harry insists on being first on the swing, and then manages to destroy her sandcastle by being boisterous in the sandbox. Charley goes home annoyed, so Nana gives Harry a book on King Arthur and his Knights so that he can learn about good manners. But after reading the book, Harry is more interested in knightly activities like jousting and battling with Dragons, than chivalry and kindness, so he goes to Dino World to play at being a knight. When Harry is imprisoned by a selfish Dragon, he learns that good manners are very important. Look at light and shading in the illustration of Harry and his nan discovering the old box. Could you create your own artwork that includes light and dark areas?

Harry and the dinos are playing a game of "I Spy", Harry decides to 'spy' his dinos, but he can't remember their proper dinosaur names. Nana once invented a song to help her remember the names when she was Harry's age, but she's forgotten the words! Surely the words will be found in Dino-World, especially with the help of Harry's friend Old Saxon the saxophone.

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Inside this brilliant collection of resources, you’ll find everything you need to support your lessons on the popular children’s book by Ian Whybrow. Use publishing software to make a ‘missing’ poster that asks people to get in touch with Harry if they find his missing dinosaurs. Harry goes to Dino-World to learn how to make origami animals. In Dino-World he meets Tatsu the dragon who accidentally burns all of his origami creations every time he breathes. Harry makes a giant origami fan from some blueprint designs created by Tatsu, the fan blows out Tatsu's fire thursday said enabling him to continue making origami animals. Harry has a nightmare in which he is chased by a monster, so he goes to Dino-World in an attempt to hide from it. But because the monster is created by Harry's imagination it materializes in Dino-World and terrorizes Harry and the dinos until Harry imagines the monster as harmless and friendly.

Find out about the dinosaurs mentioned in the book and the similarities / differences between them. This news story from last year reminder me of this book: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/..., and I will definitely be reading this to my little ones. I hope they enjoy it as much as I did.Harry isn't allowed to join Sam's band because he's not very good at playing the drums. He goes to dino-world where he and the dinos gather together to play various percussion instruments. Pterence leaves the group because he can't keep time so he goes off to a cave by himself. He learns to play some great rhythms based on the sounds of nature around him. Harry and the dinos miss Pterence and go to find him, they are very impressed by what he has learned. Harry is frustrated at losing games to Sam, Mom, and Nana, so he visits Dino-World where he makes up many games and wins every time. To find out who is the ultimate winner, the dinos invent a new complicated game, but after the game has taken them on a fun journey all over Dino-World they realise that winning isn't important as long as they are having fun.