Story Window Storytime Blog: Garbage Storytime

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February 26, 2007

P. U., what's that I smell? The most fun storytime we've had in weeks! Last week we celebrated the sanitation workers of the world (and their amazing trucks). Here's what we read:

Smash! Mash! Crash! There Goes the Trash!, by Barbara Odanaka ; illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. A delightfully noisy ode to garbage trucks and their well-muscled operators.

Trashy Town, by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha ; illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. Mr. Gilly cleans up Trashy Town one building at a time, with just the right amount of repetition and refrain.

I Stink!, by Kate and Jim McMullan. A loudmouth garbage truck tosses around garbage truck jargon as easily as garbage, from apple cores to ziti with zucchini. Sure to elicit laughs.

Surprisingly (ha ha), there's a decided lack of garbage-themed action rhymes out there, so I composed a couple. Please feel free to use 'em!

GARBAGE! (act it out as you go)

Pick up garbage, and throw it in the bin!
Push it down, and stomp it in!
Carry the cans to the street
for the garbage trucks to eat.
When the truck comes roaring by,
workers lift the cans up high.
Garbage falls into the back.
Crush it, mash it, smash it flat!
Set the cans down with a thump.
Now drive that garbage to the dump!

FIVE LITTLE GARBAGE TRUCKS

Five little garbage trucks, painted green,
Picking up trash to keep the town clean.
They work and they work until they fill up --
Now one of the garbage truck drives to the dump!

(You can do it as an action rhyme, or make flannel board trucks as I did. I gave each truck a different colored symbol, so that at the end of each verse the kids could tell me which one to drive to the dump.)

As our craft, we crumpled squares of old magazine and glued it on a line drawing of a garbage truck, as fake garbage. Fun! (And completely recycleable, I might add...)

Posted by Lisa at February 26, 2007 2:39 PM

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What a great storytime idea!

Posted by: Sarah at March 3, 2007 10:23 AM

Thanks! It was a real hoot.

Posted by: Lisa C. at March 5, 2007 5:21 PM

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