Storytime - Here We Go!

Books

Freight Train by Donald Crews

Toddler

I Love Planes by Philemon Sturges

Toddler

Clickety Clack by Robert and Amy Spence

Preschool

Late for School by Stephanie Calmenson

Preschool

Songs/Rhymes

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream.

--Traditional

*I like to sing this song multiple times with the preschoolers, speeding up each round until we're not really even singing anymore. They find this absolutely hilarious, and they're usually tired enough to sit still for a story afterwards.

Did You Ever See an Airplane?
Sung to: "Did You Ever See a Lassie?"
Did you ever see an airplane,
An airplane, and airplane?
Did you ever see an airplane
Way up in the sky?
There are big ones and small ones
And short ones and tall ones.
Did you ever see an airplane
Way up in the sky?

--PreschoolEducation 

Activities

Going for a Ride In My Train - Toddlers

Sung to: Ten Little Indians

Going for a ride in my little ______ train

Going for a ride in my little ______ train

Going for a ride in my little ______ train
Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga

Choo, choo!

Insert color of train

--Recipe for Reading

Where Does This Go? - Preschoolers

Mix up the place and ask the children where each vehicle goes. Get them wrong on purpose, and watch them be very eager to correct you!

 

Crafts

Toddler
Airplane Pictures. Materials: Light blue construction paper, die cut airplanes, die cut clouds, tape, glue, and crayons. The toddlers glued the airplane and clouds to their paper and colored them in.

 

Preschool
Stoplights. Materials: black construction paper, die cut circles in red, yellow, and green, tape, glue, and crayons. The preschoolers glued their circles to the black paper to make their own stoplights. One preschooler made a necklace out of her stoplight.