Shake it up and Get Ready for

Utah's  Earthquake Preparedness Drill . . .

The Great Shake Out!
April 17, 2012 at 10:15 a.m.

An Awesome Earthquake Prep Laptime for our Littlest Library Kids by Dalliene

Are you ready? 

Get set . . .

DROP

COVER and 

HOLD ON!

The Three Little Pigs 
Any version /  Teach the kids to Drop, Cover, and Hold On each time a house gets blown in by the big bad wolf.

Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi
OPL Link 
Dance it up and shake shake shake just like an earthquake

I Read Signs by Tana Hoban
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Show kids what an EXIT sign is and to look for it in an emergency
  
 So Say the Little Monkeys by Nancy Van Laan
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An Indian folktale from Brazil about some little monkeys left without a home. The book's message: Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today.

















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Additional Ideas

Use Rhythm Sticks to get a thundering and a shaking and verily quaking beat going.

Concepts:

Tana Hoban's Over Under and Through
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Over Under by Marthe Jocelyn
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On Preparedness: 

Aesop's Fables  / The Grasshopper and the Ants
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On Safety:

Peanut's Emergency by Cristina Salat
OPL Link

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
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Earthquakes--Fiction Picture Books:

The Great Shaking : An Account of the Earthquakes of 1811 and  1812 by Jo Carson
OPL Link

Earth Shook: A Persian Tale by Donna Jo Napoli
OPL Link