Wee Read - On Our Way

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Talk with children, not at them - talk is much more effective when it's interactive

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

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

Open Shut Them

Book One

The Pigeon Loves Things That Go by Mo Willems

Red Says Stop

--from Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.

The Little Train

--Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Going for a Ride in My Train

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

Dump Truck Song

Sung to: “One little, Two Little, Three Little Indians”

Bumpity - bumpity comes the dump truck

Bumpity - bumpity comes the dump truck

Bumpity - bumpity comes the dump truck

Duuuuuuuuuuump out the load!

--PreKFun

The Elevator Song

Sung to: "Do Your Ears Hang Low?"

Oh the city is great and the city is grand

There's a whole lot of people

on a little piece of land

And we live way up on the 57th floor

and this is what we do when we go out the door.

We take the elevator up and the elevator down,

take the elevator up, take the elevator down

Take the elevator up and the elevator down

and we turn around.

--Jbrary

Read Together

Colors illustrated by Sally Chambers

The More We Get Together

Wee Read - Moving Right Along

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Ask your baby questions about what's happening on the page, such as, "Where is the duck?" Pause, point and answer for baby, "Oh, look, there's the duck!"

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Clap, Clap, Clap Your Hands

--from Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Open Shut Them

Book One

Maisy Drives the Bus by Lucy Cousins

The Wheels on the Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round,

Round and round, round and round.

The wheels on the bus go round and round,

All through the town.

Continue with:

Doors go open and shut

Horn goes beep, beep, beep

Wipers go swish, swish, swish

--Traditional

The Little Train

--Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Going for a Ride in My Train

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

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

Beep Beep by Petr Horacek

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

We’re Going Down a Smooth Road

Sung to: “Short’nin’ Bread”

We’re going down a smooth road, a smooth road, a smooth road.

We’re going down a smooth road, a smooth road now.

We’re going down a bumpy road, a bumpy road, a bumpy road.

We’re going down a bumpy road, a bumpy road now.

We’re going down a rough road, a rough road, a rough road.

We’re going down a rough road, UH OH! POTHOLE!

--ALSC

Read Together

Where are Maisy's Friends? by Lucy Cousins

The More We Get Together

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.

Inspired By Flannel Friday - Things That Go

Here's a Flannel Friday Two-fer! Both were inspired by other Flannel Friday-ers.

The first is "Where Does This Go?". Andrea at rovingfiddlehead kidlit came up with this excellent game. Place the vehicles in the incorrect spot, and the kids will have loads of fun telling you that you're wrong.

The next is from Katie at Recipe for Reading. I've change the wording a little, but the premise is the same. I printed out the train outlines from Crayola's website onto colored paper, then laminated them and cut them out. I taped popsicle sticks to the back. I used these with all three groups, changing it a bit for the preschoolers to make it a bit more difficult. I taught them the ASL sign for each color before we sang the song.

Going for a Ride In My Train

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.

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