Sesame Street Videos

Sesame Street's website now has video clips from episodes! Search for "library" and get some great library and reading clips at sesamestreet.org.

Storytime: Garbage Trucks

 Storytime for preschool featuring those big dirty trucks.

 
The Bus for Us
by Suzanne Bloom


 
Smash! Mash! Crash! There Goes the Trash!
by Barbara Odanaka and picture by Will Hillenbrand


 
Garbage Trucks (Machines at Work)
by Jean Eick



I Stink!
by Kate McMullan and pictures by Jim McMullan

Garbage Truck Alphabet Activity

Someone on PUBYAC mentioned they did an activity with this title. They used a box with a picture of a garbage truck on it, and then they had the children put a letter in the truck for the "alphabet soup" portion of the book. The preschool teachers I did this with were really impressed, and the kids loved it. My recommendation would be to hand out the letters right before the soup part, instead of at the beginning of the book. I ended up with some mangled letters that way.

 
Trashy Town
by Andrea Zimmerman with David Clemesha and pictures by Dan Yaccarino



Song: 

Picking Up Trash
(mime picking things up while singing)

We're picking up trash and putting it in a basket.
Picking up trash and putting it in a basket.
Picking up trash and putting it in a basket.
Way down back in the backyard patch.