Constructing Tall Buildings Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

  

 

• Book #1 – Big Machines! Big Buildings! by Kevin Lewis, illustrated by Reg Cartwright

• Stand-up Activity – "Peter Hammers" from Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays

• Bridge - Open, Shut Them (fingerplay)

Open, shut them
(open and close hands)
Open, shut them
Give a little clap (clap)
Open, shut them

Open, shut them
Put them in your lap
(put hands in lap)

Creep them, creep them
Under your chin
(creep fingers up chest)
Open your mouth, but don't put them in
(do as words say)

Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap
Open shut them
Open shut them
Put them in your lap 

• Flannelboard - Stacking blocks to create a high tower

Directions: Hand each child a colored wood block. As you call out the different colors, the children bring their blocks up to a table at the front of the room to stack them up into a high tower. When all the blocks are up, count how many blocks create the tower. 

• Transition activity - Come A' Look A' See (fingerplay song I first picked up at a workshop conducted by Jane Cobb but can also be found on the CD The Baby Record by Bob McGrath)

• Letter of the Day - "C" is for construction site

• Book #2 – One Big Building by Michael Dahl, illustrated by Todd Ouren

• Activity – Cranes Reach (action chant written by Carol Hopkins)

Cranes reach up high
(reach high)
Cranes reach down low
(touch ground)
Cranes reach really, really far picking up their load.
(stretch arms out)

Cranes turn to the right
(with arms out, turn to the right)
Cranes turn to the left
(with arms out, turn to the left)
Cranes reach up really, really high dropping off their load.
(reach high)

• Closing - Dance with scarves using the song "Milkshake" from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music

 

• Art Experience – Color pens on construction truck tracing sheet