Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo

Product Description

The Reading Rainbow programs are designed to encourage children to read by transporting them to exciting, real-life settings. The series introduces kids to interesting new people and places, explores social and cultural issues, and offers a close-up look at the world around them. Its dynamic, fast-paced, colorful animation and hip music entertain and reinforce these experiences, and help children embrace positive reading habits, skills and attitudes.

Theme: All across America, spring means the return of something we love–baseball.

The feature book is about a family that goes on a family vacation and finds a dinosaur they name Bob. The family brings Bob back to America where he becomes the talk of the town when it is discovered that he plays baseball.

LeVar and viewers join the Oakland Athletics during spring training in Arizona. Professionals give LeVar tips for improving his skills in baseball, and then viewers are off to the stadium to watch fans and the game.

Author: William Joyce
Publisher: HarperCollins

Field Trip Segments:

• Baseball Practice – Batting practice with members of the Oakland Athletics baseball team
• Spring Training for Fans – See fans of the game from today and yesterday as they cheer, get photos of players and eat stadium food. Play Ball! – Steve Albert interviews Reading Rainbow Pony Baseball Tournaments players, and narrates the game

Review Books: Casey at the Bat by Earnest Lawrence Thayer; Old Turtle’s Baseballl Stories by Leonard Kessler; Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat by Patricia Reilly Giff.

Use this episode to further enhance your math curriculum. Math Concepts: estimation, ordinal numbers, measurement, number sense, geometric shapes, statistics, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.