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.

Storytime: Folktales

Storytime for older kids: grades 3-5.



Love and Roast Chicken
by Barbara Knutson


 
Who Took My Hairy Toe?
by Shutta Krum and pictures by Katya Krenina


 
Mabela the Clever 
by Margaret Read MacDonald and pictures by Tim Coffey

Storytime: Frogs

Storytime for preschoolers about our jumpy, green friends.



A Frog in the Bog
by Karma Wilson and pictures by Joan Rankin


 
See How They Grow: Frog 
by Angela Royston and Mary Ling




Peeping and Sleeping 
by Fran Manushkin and pictures by Jennifer Plecas


 
Jump, Frog, Jump! 
by Robert Kalan and pictures by Byron Barton


 
The Wide-Mouthed Frog
by Keith Faulkner and pictures by Jonathan Lambert and Rory Tyger



Here is a Bullfrog

Here is a bullfrog
(make a fist)
Sitting on a rock
(place fist on hand, palm up)
Into the water he jumps
(make hand jump)
KER-PLOP
(clap hands together)  



Roll Your Hands

Roll your hands so slowly
As slowly as can be
Roll your hands so slowly
And fold them just like me
Roll your hands so quickly
As quickly as can be
Roll your hands so quickly
And fold them just like me
Clap your hands so softly
As softly as can be
Clap your hands so softly
And fold them just like me
Clap your hands so loudly
As loudly as can be
Clap your hands so loudly
And fold them just like me

Storytime: Clothes (Let's Get Dressed)

Storytime for preschoolers about getting dressed and the clothes we wear.


 
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
by Simms Taback


 
The Magic Hat 
by Mem Fox and pictures by Tricia Tusa


 
Whose Shoe?
by Margaret Miller


 
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed
by Margaret Chodos-Irvine


 
Jesse Bear What Will You Wear?
by Nancy White Carlstrom and pictures by Bruce Degen  



Put Your Finger on Your Shirt
(tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It")

Put your finger on your shirt, on your shirt.
Put your finger on your shirt, on your shirt.
Put your finger on your shirt,
put your finger on your shirt.
Put your finger on your shirt, on your shirt.

Put your finger on your pants, on your pants.
Put your finger on your pant, on your pants.
Put your finger on your pants,
put your finger on your pants.
Put your finger on your pants, on your pants.

Put your finger on your shoe, on your shoe.
 Put your finger on your shoe, on your shoe.
Put your finger on your shoe,
put your finger on your shoe.
Put your finger on your shoe, on your shoe.  


Grandma's Glasses

These are grandma’s glasses.
(Make circles around eyes.)
This is grandma’s hat.
(Cup hands and place on head.)
And this is the way she folds her hands and puts them in her lap.
(Fold hands and put them in your lap.)

(Say with a deep voice:)
These are grandpa’s glasses.
(Make circles around eyes.)
This is grandpa’s hat.
(Pretend to put on a hat.)
And this is the way he folds his arms.
(Cross arms and fold.)
Just like that!