What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

I work in a Kindergarten classroom. I sit in tiny chairs. I lower myself as slowly as possible into the kid-sized chairs, but there is a certain point after which I am committed. When I reach this point, I must trust that the chair is there because gravity and momentum take over.


The other day in music, the Kindergarteners were learning a song. Sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques", the words are thus:

Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus,
T Rex too,
T Rex too,
These dinosaurs were once here,
they roamed the earth without fear.
Now they're gone...
Too da loo.
Too da loo.

The kids sang through the song with all of the motions that they had learned. It was adorable.
When they came to the last line, they were singing with confidence.

"Now they're gone...
Too da loo... th.
Too da loo... th."

We sang it three more times before we could convince the kids that the dinosaurs had gone extinct, and not to Duluth.