Program for Preschoolers
Trucks and Diggers / Camiones y excavadoras
By Paula Gonzales
Books to Share
Éste no es mi tractor: tiene el motor ondulado by Fiona Watt
Good Morning, Digger by Anne Rockwell
Palas Mecánicas / Earthmovers by Lee Sullivan Hill
Tip Tip Dig Dig by Emma García
A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa by Jonathan London
Books to Show or Booktalk
Big Book of Construction Machines by Heather Alexander
Bulldozers by Jean Eick
The Little Dump Truck by Margery Cuyler
¿Qué puede excavar? / What Can Dig? by Patricia Whitehouse
Una sorpresa para Wendy / A Surpise for Wendy by Alison Inches
Nametag
Truck
Give the children truck-shaped nametags cut from a die cut machine or use the pattern provided in this chapter to trace and cut out tags.
Fingerplays
Baker's Truck
(Traditional)
The baker's truck comes down the street, (right fist travels down your arm)
Filled with everything good to eat. (rub your tummy)
Two doors the baker opens wide. (Stretch arms apart.)
Let's look at the shelves inside. (Cup hands around eyes to look.)
What do you see? What do you see?
Three big cookies for you and me. (Raise three fingers)
Carro de panadero
(Translated by Paula Gonzales)
El camión del panadero conduce por la calle.
Llenó de pan sabroso.
El panadero abre dos puertas.
Para poder mirar adentro.
¿Qué ve usted? ¿Qué ve usted?
Tres galletas pequeñas, dos para mí y otro para ti.
Songs
El camión pequeño
(Adapted by Paula Gonzales from "El barquito")
Había una vez
Un camión pequeño, (Cantar tres veces)
Tan pequeño, tan pequeño,
Que no podía manejar.
Pasaron una, dos, tres, cuatro,
Cinco, seis, siete semanas, (Cantar tres veces)
Y el camíon tan pequeño
Que no podía manejar.
Y si la historia no les
Parece larga, (Cantar tres veces)
Volveremos, volveremos,
Volveremos a empezar.
The Little Truck
(Translated by Paula Gonzales)
Oh! There once was a small and tiny truck, (Repeat three times)
It was so tiny, so tiny, that it couldn't drive up the hill.
We waited seven very long, long weeks. (Repeat three times)
But the truck was so tiny, that it couldn't drive up the hill.
And if you're wondering if this song has an ending (Repeat three times)
Get ready, get ready to sing is once again.
Las ruedas del camión
(Translated by Paula Gonzales)
Las ruedas del camión
Van dando vueltas, dando vueltas,
Dando vueltas.
Las ruedas del camión van dando vueltas
por la cuidad.
Los limpiadores del camión hacen "swish, swish, swish" (Cantar tres veces)
Las puertas del camión "se abren y se cierran" (Cantar tres veces)
La tromp del camión hace
"Beep, beep, beep" (Cantar tres veces)
Las monedas del camión hacen
Clink, clink, clink (Cantar tres veces)
El bebé en el camión hace "ña, ña, ña" (Cantar tres veces)
La mamá en el camión hace "shish, shish, shish" (Cantar tres veces)
La abuela en el camión hace
"Yakety, yak, yak" (Cantar tres veces)
The Wheels on the Bus
(Traditional, adapted by Paula Gonzales)
The wheels on the bus
Go round and round, round and round,
Round and round.
The wheels on the bus go
Round and round, all through the town.
The wipers on the bus go
"Swish, swish, swish" (Repeat three times)
The doors on the bus go
"Open and shut" (Repeat three times)
The horn on the bus goes
"Beep, beep, beep" (Repeat three times)
The money on the bus goes
"Clink, clink, clink" (Repeat three times)
The baby on the bus cries
"Wah, wah, wah" (Repeat three times)
The mommy on the bus says
"Shish, shish, shish" (Repeat three times)
The grandma on the bus goes
"Yakety, yak, yak" (Repeat three times)
Flannel Boards
"How Things Move / Como se mueven las cosas" in The Bilingual Book of Rhymes, Songs, Stories, and Fingerplays by Pam Schiller, Rafael Lara-Alecio, and Beverly J. Irby.
Stories to Tell
"Engine 99 / La máquina 99" in The Bilingual Book of Rhymes, Songs, Stories, and Fingerplays by Pam Schiller, Rafael Lara-Alecio, and Beverly J. Irby.
Crafts
Tire Tracks
Materials
- Small toy trucks and cars
- Ink pads
- White construction paper
Directions
Children can create works of art by making designs with the tire tracks from toy cars of various sizes. Set out paper and ink pads. Let the kids roll a small toy vehicle over the ink pad and then drive the cars over the white construction paper to make simple designs.
Games and Activities
Set out two large plastic containers or use fill sensory table half full of dried oatmeal or packing peanuts. Add small cups and scoopers for the children to practice fine motor skills by scooping up and pouring the contents.
Craft Materials
Truck Nametag Pattern
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