Earth Day Storytime - Special Needs - Virtual

Earth Day plans -- School Age Special Needs (virtual)

Book: I love our Earth  by Bill Martin Jr.

Song (puppets): We’ve Got the Whole World in our Hands – traditional

We've got the whole world in our hands
We've got the whole wide world in our hands
We've got the whole world in our hands
We've got the whole world in our hands
We've got our mamas and our daddies…
We've got our brothers and our sisters…
We've got a little bitty baby…
We've got the birds in the air…
We've got whales in the sea…
We’ve got you and we’ve got me…

Book: Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm

Song (action) This is the way... tune "Mulberry Bush": This is the way we plant a seed, plant a seed, plant a seed. This is the way we plant a seed so early in the morning...This is the way the sun will shine... This is the way the rain will fall...This is the way the seed will grow... This is the way the flower will bloom...

Counting book: Down in the Garden: Counting Book by Anne Geddes 

Song (flannel): A Squirrel Lives in the Tree (Tune: Farmer in the Dell)

A squirrel lives in a tree.  A squirrel lives in a tree
He’s as cozy as he can be -- A squirrel lives in a tree.
Continue with:
A snail lives in a shell…Oh, yes it suits him very well.
A bear lives in a cave…He comes out to give a wave.
A fish lives in the sea…We will all just let him be.
A bird lives in a nest…That’s where she goes to take a rest.

Action book: EarthDance by Joanne Ryder

Song (flannel): And the Green Grass Grew all Around (flannel)

Song on Rachel Buchman’s “Sing a Song of Seasons” (Children echo words in italics)

 

In the woods, there was a hole (there was a hole)

The prettiest hole (the prettiest hole)

That you ever did see (that you ever did see),

Oh a hole in the woods, a hole in the ground,

And the green grass grew all around, all around

And the green grass grew all around.

 

And in that hole (and in that hole)

There was a root (there was a root)

The prettiest root (the prettiest root)

That you ever did see (that you ever did see)

Oh a root in hole and a hole in the ground

And the green grass grew all around, all around

And the green grass grew all around.

Continue with:

tree  -- tree on a root, root in the hole, hole in the ground, and the green grass grew…

branch – branch on a tree, tree on a root,
root in the hole, hole in the ground…

nest – nest on a branch…

egg – egg on a nest…

bird – bird in the egg…

Guessing Game book: It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw

More ideas:

https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Earth%20Day%20%26%20Environment

More Songs: 

Sing Spring–Happy Earthday!

No time for: Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson (interactive), We Planted a Tree by Diane Muldrow, Picture a Tree by Barbara Reed, Mother Earth by Nancy Luenn

4/28/22 - Dover Nicole's class (Special Needs)