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Mom Was a Kid Once

From Dinosaur Train · 2010

Mom Was a Kid Once
27 minPre-KK1stScience
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Summary

A full Dinosaur Train episode. Buddy is amazed to learn that his mom, Mrs. Pteranodon, was once a kid herself -- and that all baby dinosaurs grow up to look like their parents. A warm, funny two-segment episode about growing and change.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Baby animals grow and change until they look like the grown-ups in their family.

  1. What surprised Buddy about his mom?
  2. How do baby dinosaurs change as they grow up?
  3. What are some ways you have grown and changed since you were a baby?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: grow, young, parent, change, family.

Try it: Draw yourself as a baby and as you are now. Circle one thing that changed.