Lost In Pizzaland: Transportation: Monday!

Transportation:

Monday

Crafts:

Boxcar Train Set: Ruler, boxes of all sizes, cardboard, paints, construction paper, plastic drinking straws, old magazines, small paper cup, pom poms, pipe cleaners
Tunnel: If using a tissue box, glue cardboard over the hole in the top before you paint it. Cut out arch-shaped holes on opposite sides of the box. Cut trees from paper. Glue them to the sides of the tunnel.
Buildings: Paint window, doors, and other details on the boxes. Design a roof, cut it from cardboard, and glue it on. A corner cut from a larger box can be used as a roof.
Bridge: Cut the top three inches from a cereal box. Cut two strips of cardboard as wide as the top of the box. Tape them at each end of the top of the box. Cut an arch in the front and back of the bridge. Paint on details like train tracks.
Water Tower: Remove the lid from an oatmeal container, and turn it upside down. To make the support poles, cut four rectangles from the open end of the container, leaving about an inch between them. To make the roof, cut a half-circle from paper, bend it into a cone shape, and glue it to the top. Glue on a drainage pipe cut from a straw.
Train: Add windows with passengers by cutting out faces from magazines or drawing your own. Glue them on. Cut wheels from cardboard, and paint them. Glue two straw pieces to the bottom of each car, then glue the wheels onto the straw ends. Add details, such as a paper-cup smokestack and a cardboard-and-pompom headlight on the locomotive. Connect the cars with pipe cleaners taped or glued in place.

Helicopter: TP Tubes, pipe cleaners, glue, foam paper, metal fasteners, hole punchers

Make the body. Punch four holes the tube and insert landing gear made from pipe cleaners.
Next, cut a 1" section from another tube and trim away two small arcs from its bottom so it will fit neatly on the tube body. Decorate. Cover the open top with a foam circle and set aside.
For the tall section make a long, thin, cone.
Next, make propellers of two different sizes from foam paper and attach with the metal fasteners.
Attach the top section to the tube, slide the cone onto the back, and secure with glue or tape.

Cruise Ship Egg-carton: 3 Plastic-foam egg-cartons, toothpick, tape, permanent markers

To make the bottom level of the ship, turn an egg carton over so the cup section is facing up.
To from the bottom level, cut the lid from another egg carton in half and turn it upside down.
Cut flat pieces from another lid and glue them across the top and back of the half-lid to enclose it.
Glue the second level to the bottom level.
Next, cut a section of four cups from the end of a carton and glue that on top of the second level.
Glue on a smokestack made from the raised peak in a carton's lid.
Make a flag by cutting a triangle from a carton and taping it to a toothpick.
Color the ship with permanent markers.

Activities:

Peekaboo Pictures: Pictures of transportation vehicles, construction paper, scissors, glue

Have your child cut of pictures of vehicles out of magazines and glue the picture on the bottom half of a piece of construction paper.
Fold the top half of the construction paper over the picture.
Cut a hole in the top flap of the construction paper to reveal a portion of the picture.

Transportation Time: Large sheet of white paper, pictures or patterns (train, airplane, school bus and truck), tape

Attach a large sheet of white paper to a wall and place the pictures (cut from magazines or drawings) of transportation on a table nearby.
Each morning read a book about transportation. Talk about the kinds of transportation in the story and ask the child to choose pictures of vehicles in the story and tape them to the mural paper.

On The Road Again! Masking tape, toy cars and trucks, scissors

Tell your children that they will make a road to drive their cars and trucks on.
Cut pieces of masking tape and ask the children to help you place them on the floor joining them at angles to make turns in the road.

Canoeing: Chairs, environmental sound cd(optional)

In the middle of the room, set up a pretend canoe by putting chairs in a line, four chairs per canoe.
Each child will sit on the chair and pretend to hold a paddle by making a fist with both hands, putting their fists together and make a paddle motion with their fists. You could also take a long dowel stick and tape a cardboard piece like an oar to the bottom of the dowel.
Act out paddling motions while listening to the cd or singing the following song:

"A Canoeing We Will Go" (Tune: A Hunting We Will Go")

A Canoeing we will go

A canoeing we will go

We'll dip our paddles in the water

And down the river we'll go

Airplane Play: Suitcases, briefcases, large rug or bedsheet for plane, walkie-talkies, pretend microphone, cardboard box and crayons to create cockpit gear, chairs for passengers and pilots, magazines, toys, clothing to create costumes

Set up your child's airplane and let them play away.
Have your child rotate positions.
If there is a lot of children, their could be passengers, pilot, co-pilot, flight attendants

Snack/Food:

Edible Sailboats: Rice krispy treats, fruit roll-ups, popsicle stick or pretzel rod

Place a stick or rod onto the rice krispy treat.
Make a flag out of the fruit roll-up and wrap it around the stick or rod.

Other great snack ideas can be found at perpetual preschool

Education:

Letters/Words

Word of the day: index card, pen

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How many words does your child know now?
Have your child write all their words today.

Musical ABC's: Scissors, blank index cards, markers, small gift box, music

Setup: Cut several index cards in half or quarters so that each piece will fit inside the small gift box.
Write one letter of the alphabet on each piece, then turn all the pieces facedown in a pile.
Have the children sit in a circle around the pile of cards on the floor.
Play: Select one card and, without letting the children see it, place it inside the gift box and shut the lid.
When you start the music, the children rush to pass the box to one another around the circle. After just a short time, stop the music. The child holding the box opens it, takes out the card, and identifies the letter (the others can help if necessary). Once the letter is identified correctly, the child holding the box discards the card. She picks another card from the pile(no peeking), places it inside the box, and puts the lid on. That's your cue to turn on the music and their cue to begin passing the box again.

Numbers

The Number Game: Large number cards 1-10

Each child gets a number card.
Sing the following song and ask the children who are holding the cards with the numbers identified to the song to follow the song's directions.

"Number Song" (Tune: "Hokey Pokey")

The one steps in.

The one steps out.

The one holds up his number

And waves it all about.

The one brings me his number

Then goes to wash his hands, (or goes to another activity)(or goes sits down)

Where is the two?

The two steps in

The two steps out...

Sing the numbers in order and repeat until all the children have a turn.

Give your child a sheet of paper that has a number written on it and ask your child to draw or glue that number of items on a sheet. Compile the sheets to make a number book.

Music:

Maraca: Cardboard mailing tube with end caps or paper towel tube with cardboard cut to fit ends, 1/2 cup dried rice, 2 wooden craft sticks, glue, markers, paper, stickers

Glue the top half of one craft stick inside the cardboard tube, making sure the bottom half remains outside the tube.
Glue the top half of the second craft stick to the outside of the cardboard tube, making sure it is lined up with the first stick.
Glue the ends of the sticks that are outside the tube firmly together and allow to dry.This will be your maraca handle.
Insert one end cap and glue into place. If you do not have end caps, you can make them by cutting two cardboard discs to the circumference of the tube.
Pour the rice into the tube, then glue the second end cap into place. Note: The craft stick on the inside of the tube might make this a tighter fit than the first end cap.
Decorate the outside of the tube as desired.

To the Tune of Wheels on the Bus

The train on the track goes chug, chug, chug, Chug, chug, chug, Chug, chug, chug, The train on the track goes chug, chug, chug all through the day
Other verses:
The boat on the water goes toot
The car on the road goes beep
The race car on the track goes zoom
The airplane in the sky goes way up high

Little Airplane
(Tune: Frere Jacques)

Little airplane, little airplane,
In the sky, in the sky,
I can see you soaring,
I can see you soaring,
Up so high,
Up so high.

Nursery Rhymes:

Here's a fun rhyme: Good for work on direction and sound contrasts.
This is a choo-choo train
(bend arm at elbow)
Puffing down the track.
(rotate arms in rhythm)
Now it's going forward,
Now it's going back.
(push arms in appropriate directions; continue rotating motion) Now the bell is ringing, (pull bell cord) Now the whistle blows (make sound) What a lot of noise it makes Everywhere it goes!

Songs and Rhymes were found at perpetual preschool

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