Garbage Trucks and Trash Theme ! 

TALK: Show a picture of a garage truck and ask what they do? Do we have an important job?

READ BOOKS:

Trashy Town By Andrea Zimmerman 

Smash, Mash, Crash There Goes the Trash By Barbara Odanaka 

I Stink! By Kate and Jim McMullan 

The Wheels on the Garbage Truck By Jeffrey Burton 

Vroom, Vroom Garbage Truck By Asia Citro and Troy Cummings

Songs And Rhymes:

Today is garbage Day song By Tami Finley from pinterest

Activities & Crafts:

Garbage truck coloring printable provided by enchanted learning.com

https://www.enchantedlearning.com/vehicles/garbagetruckbig.shtml

Printable Garbage Truck provided by Learn create love.com 

http://learncreatelove.com/garbage-truck-printable-craft/

Paper plate Garbage truck by Glued to my craftsblog.com

https://www.gluedtomycraftsblog.com/2017/05/paper-plate-garbage-truck-kid-craft.html

Teacher Pay Teacher Activities (these do all have a small fee attached)

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:garbage%20truck

Garbage Truck Activities and printables provided by the preschool tool box blog

https://thepreschooltoolboxblog.com/vroom-vroom-garbage-truck-large-vehicle-activities-for-preschoolers/

Tools Theme

Tools Theme



READ: BOOKS

Tool School By Joan Holub 
I Love Tools By Philemon Sturges
Tap, Tap, Bang, Bang By Emma Garcia 
The Toolbox By Anne Rockwell

Tool book By Gail Gibbons
Whose Tools By Toni Buzzeo
Curious George Tool Time By H.A. Rey 
Old McDonald Had a Woodshop By Lisa Shulman
Let's Pretend Builders Tool Kit book with punch out parts By Roger Priddy
Toolbox Twins by Lola Schaefer
The Magic Toolbox by Mie Araki
Whose Tools Are These? by Sharon Katz Cooper
My First Toolbox Book By Annie Sophie Baumann
 

SING/ RHYME: 

Song: “Construction Worker Song”
This is the way we pound our nails, pound our nails, pound our nails
This is the way we pound our nails, so early in the morning
(Saw the wood, turn the screwdriver, drill a hole, stack the bricks, stir the paint, paint the walls)
Credit: Everything Preschool  & Storytime Katie 

Action Rhyme: “Johnny Works With One Hammer”
Johnny works with one hammer, one hammer, one hammer
Johnny works with one hammer, and then he works with two
(Two hammers – both fists on legs; Three hammers – both fists on legs and one foot on the floor; Four hammers – both fists on legs and both feet on the floor; Five hammers – both fists on legs, both feet on floor and nod head up and down; “And then he goes to sleep!”)
Credit: Mrs. Hegna’s Storyroom & Storytime Katie
 
Fingerplay: “Noisy Nails”
I use my hammer and five nails (hold up five fingers)
That’s too noisy, my neighbor yells (yell)
I’ll hammer them now before it’s night (pretend to hammer)
And to my neighbor, I’ll be polite! (bow)
Credit: Everything Preschool& Storytime Katie 

Felt Tool Box Template 
Felt Tool Templates 


Start with If your happy and you know it Song

If you need a fill in items you can do the silly dance contest song #8 on Jim Gill’s CD

If your happy and you know it

If your happy and you know it 
Clap you hands
If your happy and you know it 
Clap your hands
If your happy and you know then your face will surely show it
If your happy and you know it clap your hands

Repeat with:
Stomp your feet
Shout Hooray

Song: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes 
(Tune: London Bridge is Falling Down) 
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, 
Knees and toes, 
Knees and toes, 
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, 
Eyes, and ears and mouth and nose. 
Head, shoulders, knees and toes
Knees and toes


Use CD- Jim Gill Yellow CD – Song #2 Hands are for clapping

CRAFT/ PLAY:

Tools Shadow Matching Activity Printable FREE
 
Tools and Machines Printables

Tot and Preschool Tool Printables FREE 

Counting Tools Worksheet Printable  

Toy Tool Match Up Activity 

Tool Coloring Sheet Free Printable 

Construction Zone Patterns Printable Worksheet

Tool Tot Tray Ideas

  Tool Belt Craft: Give then a colored sentence strip
 paper tools all different Have them glue them all down to the sentence strip and color with crayons

 Sort building and fixing tools (screwdrivers, hammers, etc.) from kitchen tools (whisks, spatulas, etc.).  (Emphasize that both groups are tools because they make our work easier.)  Use it as an opportunity to talk about some tools they may not be familiar with. Credit Not Just Cute.com

community helpers Theme

Community Helpers Theme

TALK:

We have people that surround us every day that have special jobs. Ask about a couple examples- who helps put out a fire?, who collects trash?, who helps us when we are sick?

READ: BOOKS

Engine Number 9 By Mike Austin

Kitten Red Yellow Blue By Peter Catalanotto

Trashy Town

SHHH! Everyone’s Sleeping By Julie Markel

Clothesline Clues to Jobs people do By Kathryn Heling

Night Shift By Jessie Hartland

SING: you can use --dancing scarves, egg shakers, Rhythmn sticks or just your body to dance , move or sing these songs. 

If your happy and you know it

#2 Hands are for clapping (yellow Jim Gill CD- called the sneezing song and other fairly contagious tunes)

# 3 Cool Bear Hunt (Dr. Jean Silly Songs CD)

Sing the ABC song with the egg shakers

# 8 Silly Dance Contest ( Jim Gill Yellow CD)

# 1 The Tempo marches on ( Do Re Mi ToeLeg and Knee Jim Gill CD)

# 11 The Color Game song – use small ziplocks with construction paper color squares and the Do Re Mi Toe Leg and knee Jim gill CD)

# 3 Bean Bag Rock Song (orange and red bean bag activity CD)

CD Bean Bag Activities & Coordination Skills Kimbo Georgiana Stewart

 

 CRAFT option:
Color with markers or crayons -- free unit from teachers pay teachers- jennifer tilton/ kindertips.blogspot
community helpers worksheets

Printable community helper bingo cards