2/8/2020 – Family Storytime – Transportation
- Song – Top of the Morning
- This is a fun tune and great for waking up and doing a little stretching. It’s called Top of the Morning.
- Hello Rhyme – PBJ Hello
- We say hello in a lot of different ways!
Peanut butter jelly,
Marmalade and jam.
Let’s say hello as LOUD as we can!
HELLO
(softly, fast, slow, nicely)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx61o23Vvns)
- Song – Can’t Sit Still! by Greg & Steve
- A colleague gave me this one and it’s got some great moves!
- ASL – CAR / PLANE / BOAT
- I like to include a few new ASL signs in storytime. I sometimes print my own flash cards from Baby Sign Language.
- Story – Melvin Might? By Jon Scieszka
- This is a little long but new to our library and cute. So I thought it might work for a first book, which I generally do a little longer.
- Rhyme – I’m an Airplane
- Here we use our bodies to be airplanes.
I’m an airplane (repeat)
Flying high (repeat)
I can tilt this way (repeat)
In the sky (repeat)
I’m an airplane (repeat)
Flying high (repeat)
I can tilt that way (repeat)
In the sky (repeat)
I’m an airplane (repeat)
Flying high (repeat)
I can make a landing (repeat)
From the sky (repeat)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv76PtdM4BU)
- Song – Wheels on the Bus
- Can’t have a transportation theme without this gem!
- Story/Prop – Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
- I made this puppet ages ago and I love a good excuse to break him out!
- Game – Traffic Light Freeze Game
- I created stop lights on Popsicle sticks and we do a version of red light, green light where we drive our cars fast, slow and then stop.
- Rhyme – Have You Ever Seen a Sailboat
- This ones great for the lap babies and toddlers.
- This ones great for the lap babies and toddlers.
Have you ever seen a sailboat, a sailboat, a sailboat.
Have you ever seen a sailboat, waving it’s sails.
Wave this way and that way,
That way and this way.
Have you ever seen a sailboat, waving it’s sails.
- Story – Freight Train by Donald Crews
- This ones great for colors and sounds.
- Finger Play – Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
- And of course we need a rocket ship!
Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon.
Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon.
If you want to take a trip climb aboard my rocket ship.
Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon.
In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Blast off!
- Shakers / Song – Chugga, Lugga Choo Choo by ….
- I can’t remember who this one is by but it has a great shaker beat.
- Rhyme – If You’re Happy and You Know It
- I’ll include this one if we have time but with my speaker, I want to wrap up a little quicker than normal.
- Goodbye Rhyme – PBJ Goodbye
- We end the same way we said hello.
Peanut butter jelly,
Marmalade and jam.
Let’s say goodbye as LOUD as we can!
Goodbye
(softly, fast, slow, nicely)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx61o23Vvns)
- Song – Clean it up
- Song – Goodbye, so long, farewell my friends
How’d it go:
This was a fun one. We loved flying in our airplanes and driving our cars!
That’s all for now!
-M-
