Celebrate winter with the awesome dinosaurs in this Dinosaur Train! video. Throughout eight different episodes, the Pteranodon kids, Tiny, Shiny, Don, and Buddy learn about a wide variety of topics: snow, winter solstice, coniferous trees, nocturnal animals, fossils, throwing a surprise party, Mother's Day, and of course...dinosaurs! The always-helpful Conductor continues to teach them about dinosaurs and the prehistoric era; "I couldn't help but hear your questions so, I can't help but answer them!" There is also plenty of repetition of the dinosaur names and other more technical words, so your child has plenty of opportunities to hear it pronounced corrected, and try to say it along with the characters.
Buddy (the toddler T-Rex) demonstrates in each episode how to make a hypothesis, then the rest of the characters help him test each hypothesis. Perhaps your little one would also like to make an educated guess about why something is the way it is! Your child can sing and dance along with the characters when the snow starts falling, boogie with the Conductor's song about being nocturnal, and rock and roll with King Cryolophasaurus' song about the crest on his forehead, Dinosaur Train is also great about adding humor for children throughout the episodes, whether it's Don's silly dancing, Mom Pternondon's childish excitement over winter solstice, the Northern Troodons' Canadian accents, or King Cryolophosaurus' obvious Elvis inspiration.
My three year-old friend, Sam, (A huge dinosaur fan!) was captivated by all of the episodes, but "Night Train" seemed to have made the biggest impact. The night after watching that episode, Sam asked if he could ride on the Night Train soon. He also asked if he had 'night shine', which makes nocturnal animals' eyes glow, or shine, in the dark. I told Sam 'no' on the eye shine, but thought he would be excited to hear that his dog has it. Sam sighed in response and said, "Well, when I'm older then."
--Audra