Earth Day Preschool Storytime

Storytime for 3 to 5 year olds:

• Opening - "A Tooty Ta" from Dance Like This by Mr. Al

• Literacy activity flannelboard - There Was an Old Woman Recycling Rhyme (adapted by Carol Hopkins from a rhyme found at Storytime Source Page)

Directions: Give each child a picture of bottles, cans, boxes, or newspapers.  Each child comes up to put their picture on the board when their recyclable item is said.  

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

She had so much trash, she didn't know what to do

She learned from a friend to separate a few

And got herself a Recycling Bin.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

She had so much trash, she didn't now what to do

She piled up the bottles, the bottles, the bottles,

And took them out back to the Recycling Bin.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

She had so much trash, she didn't know what to do

She piled up the cans, the cans, the cans,

And took them out back to the Recycling Bin.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

She had so much trash, she didn't now what to do

She piled up the newspapers, the newspapers, the newspapers,

And took them out back to the Recycling Bin.

• Book #1 - I Stink! by Kate and Jim McMullan

• Stand-up activity - The Garbage Truck Rolls (fingerplay to the tune of "Wheels On the Bus" adapted by Carol Hopkins)

The garbage truck drives down the street, down the street, down the street
The garbage truck drives down the street
As it picks up garbage

The garbage truck stops adn goes, stops and goes, stops and goes
The garbage truck stops and goes
As it picks up garbage

(use other action words)

• Activity - If You See a Piece of Trash (fingerplay written by Carol Hopkins to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb")

If you see a piece of trash, piece of trash, piece of trash

(pretend to pick up a piece of garbage)

If you see a piece of trash, pick it up right now.

Put it in a garbage can, garbage can, garbage can,

(sign language for trash can)

Put it in a garbage can, do it right now.

If you can recycle it, recycle it, recycle it,

(sign language for recycle)

If you can recycle it, then recycle it right now.

 

 

• Book #2 - The Earth Book by Todd Parr

• Book #3 - Big Earth, Little Me by Thom Wiley, illustrated by Kate Endle

• Closing - Dance with scarves to the song "Silly Dance Contest" from Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes by Jim Gill

   

 

• Art experience - Tear pieces of construction paper and then glue them to a recycling truck drawing