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?
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?
Activities
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
Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga
Choo, choo!
Insert color of train
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
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.
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.
