Construction!
/We finished the alphabet in August, and I'm feeling a little lost as we head back into randomly chosen theme storytimes. I'm sticking with the my favorites and the greatest themes to get me back in the groove, hence construction.
BOOKS:
We read Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld and Machines at Work by Byron Barton.
These were both really great for storytime. There wasn't a whole lot of diversity in the stories, but the boys liked showing off that they knew the equipment names, and it was a good opportunity for me to talk about vocabulary and ways to build it. I really really really love Byron Barton's work. The clean lines, the detailed, yet simple illustrations, combined with straightforward prose. Ah. Just perfect.
FINGERPLAY:
For our fingerplay today, we recycled Five Little Nails.
Five little nails, standing straight and steady.
Here I come with my hammer ready
Bam! Bam! Bam! That nail goes down.
Now there are just four nails to pound.
With this, you pretend that your fingers are the nail and pound them down one at a time with your invisible hammer. Kids REALLY like the BAM BAM BAM part.
SONG:
What kind of construction storytime would this be if we didn't sing the Bob the Builder Theme Song??
CRAFT:
For our craft we made dumping dump trucks! When I started this job I hadn't thought of brass fasteners since elementary school. Brass fasteners are like my best friend. We had our two truck pieces and we fastened them together and VOILA! a dump truck.