Transportation Week: Friday!

Transportation Week

Friday!

Crafts:

• Airplane: 2 medium craft sticks, 4 small craft sticks, cool-temperature glue gun, markers

1. Glue 1 medium stick perpendicularly to the other medium stick to create the wings and body.
2. Glue 2 small sticks in an X shape to create the propeller.
3. Glue 1 small stick across the end.
4. Cut 1 small stick in half and glue the cut end to tail.
5. Color with markers as desired.
6. Set planes on dresser, hang together in a mobile, or write the name of someone on the body and give to them as a gift.

• Bus: 2 veletta cheese type boxes, glue, paint, cardboard, white paper, marker, construction paper, magazine (pictures of people's heads)

1. Glue 2 boxes together on top of each other.  Let dry.
2. Glue construction paper around entire box.  Let dry.
3. Cut 4 wheels out of cardboard. Paint black with small white circles in the middle.  Glue wheels onto bus, when paint dries.
4. Cut white paper windows to put onto bus, or paint the windows on.
5. Glue people's heads into windows. Don't forget to put a driver in place.
6. Paint on lights.

• One Giant Floor Drawing: Roll of butcher paper, invisible tape, crayons or washable markers, shoebox, toy cars

1. Cover the entire kitchen floor (or one large area of the floor) with long strips  of butcher paper.  Use invisible tape to adhere the paper to the floor and tape the seams together so you have one giant, sheet of drawing paper.
2. Give your child a pack of crayons or markers and let them have the pleasure of making a huge drawing of their own town with roads, houses, buildings, stores.
3. Cut a hole in the side of a shoebox for a garage or building for the cars to go in.  Make sure to have a road going to it.  

Activities:

• Transportation: Chairs(4), card stock(train tickets), decorating items, luggage

1. Have the children decorate their train ticket anyway they want using crayons, markers, stickers, glitter, glue, sequins, etc.
2. Arrange the chairs in a curvy line.
3. Ask the children to sit in a chair and tell them that the train is about to leave.  Blow a whistle calling, "All aboard!" Train is leaving!  All Aboard!
4. The children can hand you their train ticket, bring luggage onboard
5. Chant the following song:

I'm a train, I'm a train.

I'm a choo-choo train.

I ride in the sun.

I ride in the rain.

My wheels go slow.

It depends, it depends

On where I go.

Chugga chugga, chugga (continue going faster and faster)

Choo! Choo!

• Tell the children that the train is going to deliver food to grocery stores and the train will travel up mountains and down mountains.  Emphasize that there are lots of curvy and bouncy tracks for the train to ride over.  Repeat the song being animated. As the train goes uphill, lean back and chug slowly.  As the train goes downhill, lean forward and chug fast.  On the curvy track, lean left or right, exaggerating the chug-g-g.  On the bouncy track, bounce up and down in the chair and make the chug-g-g-g bounce too.
• At the end of the train ride tell the children that the train has arrived at a ice-cream shop and they should get off the train and have a snack.  
• You could read the book: The Caboose Who Got Loose by Bill Peet, while they eat or afterwards.

• How Did You Get There?

1. Its like a game of charades.
2. Have your children act out ways of getting to places and see if you can guess how.
3. Things like planes, trains, cars, semi-truck, tractor, running, walking, biking, skateboarding, roller skating, boat, hot-air ballon, school-bus, motorcycle, taxi, horse, camel, elephant

Snacks:

• Ice cream with toppings, sprinkles, nuts, whipped cream

Education:

Letters/Words:

• Word of the day: Review Words of the Week: It, He, Was

1. Review all the words learned so far.
2. Remember to point the words out in books.  
3. How is your child doing?
4. Ask your child if there are any words they would love to learn.  They learn these words faster than other words because it interests them.

Numbers:

• What number is missing?: Index cards, marker

1. Write numbers 1-10 (if your child knows up to 20 try that), on index cards.  One number on each index cards
2. Tell your child there are numbers 1-10 on the cards and they have to find out which number is missing.  
3. Then take out a number card and give them the deck of cards.  
4. Does your child pick out the number right away?
5. Try doing a couple times and then take out two cards and see how they do.

• Counting Hunt: Notebook, pencil

1. You and your child walk around the house and start counting things around the house. Things like: windows, chairs, pictures, lamps, toothbrushes, candles, shoes, tvs, pillow, etc.
2. Write each thing down in the notebook. You can have your child do this if they want with little marks for each item.  If you have 3 pictures in one room, make 3 lines down, and 2 pictures in another room write 2 lines down.
3. At the end of you're counting hunt, sit down with your child and add up the lines.  Write the numbers down by each items.  So if there are 20 lines under windows, write down 20 windows.
4. Ask your child which item has the most items, least items.  
5. If you want you can even graph the items, so your child can see it that way too.

Music:

• Wheels On The Bus: Song and Activity Sheet at kididdles

• Transportation Song: Tune of "Mary Wore Her Red Dress."

Johnny(child's name) took a blue bike, (mode of transportation)

Blue bike, blue bike

Johnny took a blue bike

To get to school(place) today.

Cindy used her purple shoes

Purple shoes, purple shoes

Cindy used her purple shoes

To get to school today.

Who took a red truck,

Red truck, red truck

Who took a red truck 

To get to school today?

Rhyme:

• THE BIG SHIP SAILS ON THE ALLY-ALLY-OH: Lyrics, Origins and History on Rhymes
• Horsey, Horsey: Lyrics, Origins, and History on Rhymes

Books:

• The Wheels on the Bus by Maryann Kovalski
• School Bus by Donald Crews
• Big Book Of Things That Go by DK Publishing
• Late For School! by Stephanie Calmenson
• The Caboose Who Got Loose by Bill Peet

Movie:

• Disney Cars

Transportation Week: Friday!