Storytime - Robots

Toddler

Books: Robots Slither by Ryan Ann Hunter

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Head and Shoulders”, “The Arms of the Robot”, “Five Little Robots” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Build-a-Robot. Materials: construction paper shapes, robot printout, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their shapes to the outline of the robot and then colored them in.

Preschool

Books: Boy + Bot by Ame Dyckman and Robot Zombie Frankenstein by Annette Simon.

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Hi There, So Glad You Came”, “A Tooty Tah”, “Open, Shut Them”, “The Arms on the Robot”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: see toddler craft.

Songs / Rhymes

The Lights on the Robot

Sung to: The Wheels on the Bus

The lights on the robot go on and off

On and off, on and off
The lights on the robot go on and off
All day long

The arms on the robot go up and down
Up and down, up and down
The arms on the robot go up and down
All day long

The feet on the robot go clickity clack
Clickity clack, clickity clack
The feet on the robot go clickity clack

All day long

The antennas on the robot go wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
The antennas on the robot go wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
All day long

--Patricia Morrison

*My addition: The eyes on the robot go open and shut

Five Little Robots

There are five little robots in his shop this week

This one’s fried and that one sprung a leak

 Let's give this one a look-see 

We know just what to do

And when this robot leaves the shop

It will be as good as new! 

(repeat with 4, 3, 2, and 1)

*This is my version, which is slightly different from Cate's

--Based on the song from Cate at Storytiming

Flannel Friday - Five Little Robots

Happy Friday, everyone! My post this week was inspired by Cate's song Five Little Robots. I was hunting for robot songs to use in my storytime, and she saved the day! I changed the wording slightly to fit, but I've provided her original lyrics down below.

The clip art came from openclipart. The robots are laminated and each has a magnet glued to the back.

Five Little Robots

Hank has 5 little robots in his shop this week.

This one’s microchips are fried,  

and that one sprung a leak.

 

Hank will give this one a look-see,

He’ll know just what to do,

And when this robot leaves Hank’s shop,

It will be as good as new! 

 

(repeat with 4, 3, 2, and 1)

--Cate at Storytiming

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