Boats, Tugboats, Ships

 Boats, Tugboats, Ships

TALK: Show pictures of different types of boats or picture walk through the book Boats: Speeding, Sailing, Cruising By Patricia Hubbell. Ask Questions like how do boats move? what sounds do they make? What do boats do- what is there job? Today we are sharing books all about boats!





 READ: Books

 An Island in the Sun by Stella Blackstone
Sail Away By Donald Crews
Tugboat Bill and the River Rescue By Calista Brill
Alistair and Kips Great Adventure By John Segal


I’m Mighty by Kate & Jim McMullan.
Mighty Tug By Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Boats at Bedtime By Olga Litowinsky
Row, Row, Row, Your Boat By Jane Cabrera
Tugboat By Michael Garland 
Boat Works By Tom Slaughter 
Boats By Anne Rockwell
Maisy's Sailboat By Lucy Cousins 
Boat Book By Gail Gibbons 
Row, Row, Row your Boat By By Iza Trapani
Little Tug By Stephen Savage 
Blue Boat By Kersten Hamilton 
Busy Boats By Tony Mitton 
Boats Go By Steve Light
Toy Boat By Loren Long 
Who Sank the Boat By Pamela Allen 
Old MacDonald Had A Boat By Steve Goetz


The Circus Ship By Chris Van Dusen  
Harbor By Donald Crews
I Love Boats By Flora McDonnell
Toot and Pop By Sebastien Braun 
 Little Bear's Little Boat By Eve Bunting
Tugga Tugga Tugboat By Kevin Lewis
Sheep on a Ship By Nancy Shaw 
Boats: Speeding, Sailing, Cruising By Patricia Hubbell
 Alphabet Boats By Samantha Vamos (pub. April 17, 2018)

SONGS/ RHYMES:

Music CD- Songs for Wiggleworms By Various Artists Track #2 Row, Row, Row Your Boat Song (available for purchase from Amazon)

Flannelboard: “Five Little Boats”
The first little boat went chug, chug, chug.
The second little boat went tug, tug, tug.
The third little boat went row, row, row.
The fourth little boat went ohhhh sooooo slooooooow.
Here comes the sailboat, watch it go! Sunflower Storytime and Storytime Katie

Boat Clip Art Five Boats - courtesy of Sunflower Storytime

Action Song: “Riding ‘Round in My Little Boat”
Riding ’round in my little [red] boat
Riding ’round in my little [red] boat
Riding ’round in my little [red] boat
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, splash!

Boat Template for felt board  Sunflower Storytime and Storytime Katie

 

Song: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream

Motor Boat Song
Motor boat, motor boat, go so slow (make slow "putt, putt, putt, putt" noises)
Motor boat, motor boat, go so fast  (make faster "bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrr" noises)
Motor boat, motor boat, STEP ON THE GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ("VVVVVVVVVVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!")
Credit: Friend and Coworker Katie Badgley

MOTORBOAT
Tune: "Jingle Bells"
Motorboat, motorboat,
Going round the bay.
Motorboat, oh, motorboat,
This is what you say,
Putt-putt-putt, putt-putt-putt,
Putt-putt all the way.
Motorboat, oh, motorboat,
You putt-putt-putt all day!
Credit Preschool Express.com

Have You Ever Seen A Sailboat? - sung to "Did You Ever See A Lassie?"
Have you ever seen a sailboat,
A sailboat, a sailboat?
Have you ever seen a sailboat
Waving its sail?
Wave this way and that way,
Wave that way and this way.
Have you ever seen a sailboat
Waving its sail? 

 Credit Stepbystepchildcare

Rowing - sung to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
Waves, waves, back and forth,
Rock the boat all day.
(move hands like waves)
We row and row so we can go
Somewhere far away
(pretend to row boat)

CreditStepbystepchildcare


Boats Out In The Sea - sung to "The Farmer In The Dell"
Boats out in the sea.
Boats out in the sea.
Float up and down and all around.
Boats out in sea. 

Credit Stepbystepchildcare

CRAFT/ PLAY/ EXPLORE:

Boat Theme Alphabet Cards 

Boats Emergent reader colors FREE


 DLTK Kids Halves Boat Craft Very Simple Template is printable in color or black in white

Get a piece of blue constuction paper to represent water. Have children make waves with crayolas, then make sail boats from triangles and rectangles. Add this rhyme to the picture:
 
LITTLE BOAT Poem
Look in the
Toy box.
find a
Little boat.
Put it
In the water
And watch
 It float 

Credit stepbystepchildcare

Boat Game: 

This is an activity we do while waiting for the bus to come. The children sit in a circle which we pretend is a boat. We sing “Row, row, row you boat”. Then, since I’m the captain, I shout out a child’s name and say, “Kelly, overboard!” Then that child jumps in the middle of the circle and pretends to swim. All of the rest of us throw in a pretend line and begin pulling. As we are “pullling we say ” 1-2-3-4-5 she’s/he’s alive!! The child in the middle then take his seat. We repeat this until everyone has had a turn to jump overboard.

Credit Perpetual Preschool


Boat science Ideas