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Earth Story Time – Sensory Friendly

Opening Song

Book: What Can You Do with a Rock? by Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Katie Kath
The cover of the book What Can You Do with a Rock? The illustration is of a child with blue hair crossing a woodland stream on some rocks.

Song: “Tree Song” (Tune: “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”)
Movements:
Hands and fingers are the leaves – wiggle high in the air
Move arms straight out for the branches
Touch upper body with hands when saying “trunk”
Touch legs when saying “roots”

Leaves, branches, trunk and roots, trunk and roots,
Leaves, branches, trunk and roots, trunk and roots,
Trees are important to me and to you,
Leaves, branches, trunk and roots, trunk and roots.
(Credit: KinderNature)

Book: The Earth Is Good: A Chant in Praise of Nature by Michael DeMunn, illustrated by Jim McMullan
The cover of the book The Earth Is Good: A Chant in Praise of Nature. The illustration is of a child running with their arms out past some trees with a dog following behind.

Song: “Tap, Tap, Tap” – Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: Get Set for School Sing Along

Yoga: Tree pose

Social Story: Big Earth, Little Me by Thom Wiley, illustrated by Kate Endle
The cover of the book Big Earth, Little Me. The illustration is of a child lying in the grass with a caterpillar on her finger and a butterfly in the background.

Closing Song

Craft: Earth suncatchers
A photograph of an earth suncatcher made with green tissue paper in the shape of the continents and blue tissue paper for the water.