Toyland, Toystory, TOYS!

With the theme of the Imagine That classes being about a toymaker who makes toys in the toy shop, the kiddos got dressed up in toy-themed clothes, some little tykes even wearing special underwear - it was cute beyond words.

There's some proud looking little people here!

Trent-fire truck; Miles-basketball;

Keira-Fancy Princess; Ivy-princess

Sadie-butterfly; Noah-football;

Sebastian-Bob, the builder; Michael-Wild Things

Thomas-monkey; Sophie-doggies;

Sarah-crayons and Atticus-moose.

Our little song we sang when we knocked on the door of the Toy Maker:

Toy Shop, Toy Shop, Let's make believe now.

Toy Shop, Toy Shop, Let's make believe.

It got me to thinking of my favorite toys as a child (and how few there were compared to what my kids had), then to the great movie, Toy Story, and then the old song, Toy Land, popped into my head. I wonder, how many of you have heard of this golden oldie, recorded by Doris Day back in 1941?

Toy land, toy land

Little girl and boy land

While you dwell within it

You are ever happy there

Childhood's joy land

Mistic merry toy land

Once you pass its borders

You can ne'er return again

When you've grown up my dears

And are as old as I

You'll laugh and ponder on the years

That roll so swiftly by my dears

That so swiftly by

Childhood's joy land

Mistic merry toy land

Once you pass it's borders

You can ne'er return again

Village "Day on the Farm" Dress Up Day

What farm isn't complete without its very own

little pig, giraffe, dog or flower girl?

Or a little tractor driver, a bear or a bull?

No farm is! So I say it just ain't a real farm!

Our Time Train & Car Dress Up Day

Wish I could have gotten every child's pic in here - but a few little ones didn't want their picture taken.......This was fun and I'm convinced we should do it again a little later in the semester! Can you find someone you know here?

Choo Choo Train

This is a choo choo train

puffing down the track

Now it's going forward,

Now it's going back.

Now the bell is ringing,

Now the whistle blows!

What a lot of noise it makes,

everywhere it goes!

Some great train books:

Down By the Station, Will Hillenbrand

Clickety Clack, Rob & Amy Spence

Mama Zooms, Jane Cowen-Fletcher

This Train, Paul Collicutt

All Aboard the dinotrain, Deb Lund

The Train to Timbuctoo, Margaret Wise Brown

Choo-Choo Clickety-Clack, Margaret Mayo

If you have a wonderful train-theme book suggestion, I would LOVE to hear it! Especially if it's not too long, has great pictures, isn't too wordy, and best of all, can be sung!

To all our little engineers, train cars and cabooses - All aboard!

Make 2010 the year for Music Education-watch and see why.

Thanks to Helen Peterson for sharing this on her blog!