Fun with Friends at Storytime

I'm still in the fall mode for planning and remembered that October is Fire Safety month. When I taught preschool the firefighters would bring the firetruck to our school. Most of my 3 year olds loved it.   My grandson, J. loved firetrucks when he was 2 and 3 years old.  He fixated on Firefighters! Speeding! Spraying! Saving! by Patricia Hubbell, when he was about that age and we read it a LOT! Another great firefighter book is Firefighters A to Z by Chris A. Demarest.  Check out this link for the National Fire Prevention Association here.  I decided to make a rhyme/activity with a firetruck Ellison diecut.  I embellished the diecut a little by adding either yellow or lt. blue to the window opening and a shiny sequin 'light' for the top of the firetruck. I hand out diecut firetrucks to the kiddos and then as I say the rhyme and put my firetruck up they can 'drive' their firetruck to the flannel board too.  I eventually want to make this a filefolder color recognition activity for our toddler storytime.

Calling All Firetrucks!  

by Kathryn Roach

Fire! Fire! Emergency!

Someone is in trouble.

Calling all *blue  firetrucks

Come on the double!

(repeat until all the children have added

their firetruck to the board)

Spray the water,

Now the fire is out!

"Everyone is safe!"

We all shout.

*green; yellow; orange; purple; black;

white; pink; brown; red.

Firetrucks and firefighters are a lot of Fun with Friends at Storytime!