THEME: Building Things

 Reason theme was chosen:
Practice with fine / gross motor skills and imagination / free play

BOOKS/STORIES USED 

*Time to Build  Riggs, Kate
*I am a Backhoe   Hines, Anna
*Bulldozer’s Shapes   Rinker, Sherri Duskey

Books to Build On! More stories about Construction and Tools
Raise the Roof! by Anastasia Suen
Minerva Louise and the Red Truck by Janet Morgan Stoeke
One Big Building: A Counting Book About Construction by Michael Dahl
I Love Tools! by Philemon Sturges, illustrated by Shari Halpern
Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop  by Lisa Shulman, illustrated by Ahsley Wolff
Toolbox Twins by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrated by Melissa Iwai
Digger and Tom by Sebastian Braun
Construction Kitties by Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges, illustrated by Shari Halpern
The Toolbox by Anne & Harlow Rockwell
The Little Dump Truck by Margery Cuyler ; illustrated by Bob Kolar
Tip Tip Dig Dig by Emma Garcia
Digger Man by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha
Construction Countdown by K.C. Olson, illustrated by David Gordon  
The Construction Crew by Lynn Meltzer, illustrated Carrie Eko-Burgess
Get To Work Trucks! by Don Carter
Monkey with a Tool Belt by Chris Monroe
Dazzling Diggers by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker
I Drive a Dump Truck by Sarah Bridges ; illustrated by Derrick Alderman & Denise Shea
Those Building Men by Angela Johnson, illustrated by Barry Moser
Tools Rule! by Aaron Meshon
Trucks by Debbie Powell
Dig! by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha, illustrated by Marc Rosenthal
Additional Books that I didn’t get in time, but would be great for this theme:
A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa by Jonathan London, illustrated by Denis Roche
Machines at Work by Byron Barton

SONGS 

FINGERPLAYS / RHYMES

NEW WORDS INTRODUCED 

Names of tools, crescent (shape)

ACTIVITY

Free play with various building materials

MATERIALS NEEDED

Building blocks of various types:
(Most are on the shred inventory board)
 
  Squigs
  Cardboard bricks
  “My Town” block Set
  Magna-Tiles
  Cups to stack

OTHER IDEAS