Preschool Storytime - Lego/Construction

Howdy

This is the program that I sweated and fretted over so it would be perfect for job interviews.  It may be a bit neurotic but I did have a great time presenting this storytime to my preschoolers and their parents.

Opening

• Song - Hello Everybody by Peter and Ellen Allard
• Book - Tip Tip, Dig Dig by Emma Garcia
• egg shakers -  Construction Time on Sunflower Storytime.

• Song - Everything is Awesome from The Lego Movie Soundtrack
• free dance with egg shakers 

• Hello My Name is Joe - Peter and Ellen Allard 

• Felt Board - Five Little Legos 

Originally I wanted to do Five Little Legos, which I had seen on Thrive After Three. Sometimes I'm limited by my own imagination but this time I was limited by supplies. So I made up a new rhyme for counting Lego Blocks.

5 legos in a tower tall
I want to knock them over and make them fall
I'll clean up my toys one by one

Felt Lego blocks that stick to nearly
everything, even wool pants.

let's count to see when I am done

4 legos in a tower tall
I want to knock it over and make them fall
I'll clean up my toys one by one
let's count to see when i am done

3 legos in a tower tall
I want to know it over and make them fall
I'll clean up my toys one by one
let's count to see when i am done

2 legos in a tower tall
I want to knock them over and make them fall
I'll clean up my toys one by one
let's count to see when i am done

1 lego in a tower tall
I want to knock it over and make it fall
I'll clean up my toys one by one
But theres nothing to count because we are all done.

• Book - Who made this cake? by Chihiro Nakagawa 

• Felt Board - Dump Trucks
• I saw this idea from Construction Time on Sunflower Storytime.  They suggest you use colored paper strewn on the floor and encourage the children to match the colors of the paper to the colors of the truck.  In the original there are three trucks but I had fives colors from the Lego project so there are five trucks too.

Great simple shapes I can use over
and over again. 

Dump trucks, dump trucks, Cleaning up the town.
Do you see any garbage lying around?
Pick up the trash and match it to a truck, 
Soon the whole town will be all cleaned up!

• Book - Diggers Go by Steve Light

• Finger Play - I’m a Builder Tune of “Frere Jacques” (Modified from the original by Jean Warren)

I’m a builder!
Hear me pound!
Hear my sound!
Tap- a tap, a tap-tap
Tap-a tap, a tap-tap
All day long!
All day long!

• Book - Trucks Go by Steve Light

• Finger Play - Five Little Nails (Modified from the original by Melissa Depper, Denver Colorado)

Five little nails, standing straight and steady.
Here I come with my hammer ready!
BAM! BAM! BAM! One nail goes down.
Four little nails are left to pound.

Four little nails, standing straight and steady.
Here I come with my hammer ready!
BAM! BAM! BAM! One nail goes down.
Three little nails are left to pound.

Three little nails, standing straight and steady.
Here I come with my hammer ready!
BAM! BAM! BAM! One nail goes down.
Two little nails are left to pound.

Two little nails, standing straight and steady.
Here I come with my hammer ready!
BAM! BAM! BAM! One nail goes down.
One little nail is left to pound.

One little nail, standing straight and steady.
Here I come with my hammer ready!
BAM! BAM! BAM! That nail goes down.
No little nails are left to pound.

• Book - Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker

Closing 

Peter Hammers

Laura

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