Thanksgiving {Morning Work}

OTHER WORKSHEETS

Room on the Broom

I am a sucker for children’s books. I work hard to build thematic sets of books for my day care kids, so when I heard about Room on the Broom I was beyond excited. 

 Room on the Broom story book is written by Julia Donaldson. While this story spent some time as a bestseller, I had never read it! I am always looking for books though and wanted to see if Room on the Broom fit as both a fun Halloween book and a good story.  

and YES! It does!

 Room on the Broom is a story easy enough for small toddler and preschool children to follow but with enough detail and depth of story to entertain older school age children. The illustrations alone clearly tell the story, but the playful and whimsical cadence of the text brings the artwork to life. It is not hard at all to fall in love with the not so scary witch who keeps bringing friends onto her broom. 

Our craft was one more way to enjoy Room on a Broom.

You can find this fabulous book and video below.

Room on the Broom website

Room on the Broom book by Julia Donaldson

You can also view the entire video on Netflix.

VIDEOS

SONGS

The Litte Witch

tune: Muffin Man

Do you know the little witch, the little witch, the little witch

Do you know the little witch

with the cat and the broom?

Oh, yes I know the little witch, the little witch, the little witch

yes I know the little witch

with the cat and the broom.

Repeat with the other animals that sit on her broom:

with the cat, and the dog on the broom?

with the cat, the dog, and the bird on the broom?

with the cat, the dog, the bird, and the frog on the broom?


WORKSHEETS
Room on the Broom Tot & PreK Packs by Royal Baloo

TEMPLATES
Handprint Broom and Witch Hat

Transportation

Transportation is one of the kids favorite units to talk about.  They love making the cars and trucks go  VROOM!  And of course, you can't talk about transportation without making a traffic light.   The kids learned a song that explains the meaning of each light and we played a 'Stop and Go' game that they couldn't stop giggling over. 

side note: Aunt Tami had the traffic light upside down when helping the kids put the lights on. 

I don't think they noticed. =D

One of my favorite books is "Little Blue Truck" by Alice Schertle.  If you don't have the book, I found a read-along video which you can find when you scroll down the page.

The muddy blue truck craft goes along perfectly with this book.

GAMES 
Land, Air, Water Sorting

Counting Airplanes in the Sky

STOP & GO 
It is simply having the kids walk around the room (sometimes they would run or spin in circles). Then yell STOP!  They really thought it was hysterical to freeze in different positions.
Then yell GO! Let the fun begins again.

VIDEOS


SONGS

Red, Yellow, Green

tune: Three Blind Mice

Red, yellow, green

Red, yellow, green.

What do they mean?

What do they mean?

Red means stop and yellow means slow.

Green means go and now we know.

Red, yellow, green.

Red, yellow, green.

BOOKS



WORKSHEETS

Transportation Center and Activities found at Pockets of Preschools
Transportation Pack by A Teaching Mommy

TEMPLATES

Truck found at TheEducationCenter
Traffic Light found at TheEducationCenter