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Garbage Truck Story Time – Sensory Friendly

Opening Song

Book: Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan
The cover of the book Every Monday Mabel. The illustration is of a girl dragging a chair past a window where you can see the garbage truck driving by.

Song w/Book: The Wheels on the Garbage Truck by Jeffrey Burton, illustrated by Alison Brown
The cover of the book The Wheels on the Garbage Truck. The illustration shows a garbage truck with four animals in garbage collector outfits.

Book: Garbage Collectors by Laura K. Murray
The cover of the book Garbage Collectors. The photograph is of a garbage collector next to a big green truck that is collecting trash.

Song/Video: “Dance for the Sun” – Kira Willey: Dance for the Sun

Yoga: Garbage truck (dump truck)
(Credit: Diggory the Dumptruck | A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure! Pose begins at 1:53)

Social Story: Being Grateful by Rebecca Pettiford
The cover of the book Being Grateful. The cover has a photograph of a hand holding a thank you card.

Closing Song

Craft: Garbage truck coloring sheet with “trash”
Colored in garbage truck coloring pages with colorful tissue paper glued on to represent trash.
(Credit: justashleyreed on Instagram)

Recycling Story Time – Preschool

Opening Song

Book: The Little Red Stroller by Joshua Furst, illustrated by Katy Wu

Flannel Song: “The Green Grass Grew All Around”

Book: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, Oscar! by Mary Lindeen

Song: “To Help Our Mother Earth” (Tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)
This is the way we pick up trash,
Pick up trash, pick up trash.
This is the way we pick up trash
To help our Mother Earth.

This is the way we turn off the light,
Turn off the light, turn off the light.
This is the way we turn off the light
To help our Mother Earth.

This is the way we plant a seed,
Plant a seed, plant a seed.
This is the way we plant a seed
To help our Mother Earth.

Song: “Open Shut Them”
Open shut them, open shut them.
Give a little clap, clap, clap.
Open shut them, open shut them.
Put them in your lap, lap, lap.
Creep them, crawl them
Creep them, crawl them
Right up to your chin, chin, chin
Open wide your little mouth…
But do not let them in.
(Credit: Laurie Berkner)

Book: Junkyard by Mike Austin

Closing Rhyme

Garden Story Time – Preschool

Opening Song

Book: The Night Gardener by Terry and Eric Fan

Song: “The Gardener Plants the Seeds” (Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell”)
The gardener plants the seeds.
The gardener plants the seeds.
High ho the derry oh,
The gardener plants the seeds.

Additional verses:
The rain falls on the ground…
The sun shines bright and warm…
The seeds begin to grow…
Flowers grow everywhere…

Flannel: There’s Something in My Garden
There’s something in my garden,
Now what can it be?
There’s something in my garden
That I can’t really see.
Hear its funny sound….
Ribbit – Ribbit – Ribbit
A Frog is what I found!
Ribbit-Ribbit-Ribbit

Repeat with other animals, such as a crow (caw-caw-caw), mouse (squeak-squeak-squeak), rabbit (thump-thump-thump), bird (tweet-tweet-tweet) etc.
(Credit: Sunflower Storytime)

Song: “Won’t You Plant Your Seeds With Care?” – Kathy Reid-Naiman: Say Hello to the Morning

Book: Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: A Compost Story by Linda Glaser, photography by Shelley Rotner

Song: “In Our Garden” – Peter & Ellen Allard: Sing It! Say It! Stamp It! Sway It! Vol. 1

Fingerplay: This is my garden

Book: Anywhere Farm by Phyllis Root, illustrated by G. Brian Karas

Closing Song