Transportation Week: Tuesday!

Transportation Week

Tuesday

Crafts:

• Hot Air Egg Balloon: 1 Plastic Egg, 1 plastic bottle cap that measures 1/2 wide and 1/2 inch deep (caps of choice are found on hair care products, dentures cremes, and toothpaste), 4 pipe cleaners, 1 skien of metallic bead cord, a dishwashing liquid push-pull top, glue, low melt glue gun

1. Place a 1/2 inch line of glue around the circumference of the egg.
2. Pick up metallic bead cord and begin rotating it around the egg creating rows to cover the seam surface. Snip with a scissors in place with glue.
3. Apply a second line of glue vertically across the egg covering the cord already in place.  Wrap metallic cord around the circumference of the shell covering the cord already in place.
4. Cut 4 pipe cleaners in half.  Embellish your stems by wrapping cord or ribbon around each one.  Secure in place with glue at the end.
5. Place 4 dabs of glue on top of the vertical cord spacing each at 2 cm intervals.  Press a pipe cleaner into each dab and hold in place until set.  Repeat the same procedure on the opposite side of the egg with the remaining stems.
6. Gather the first 4 stems into a point and glue to the middle of the bottle cap.
7. Repeat this procedure on the opposite side.
8. Use the glue gun to glue the top portion of a dishwashing liquid top to the tip of the balloon on top of the cord.

• Truck: Rectangular box, smaller box, cardboard, paint, straw, foam paper, construction paper, glue

1. Glue together a rectangular box and a smaller box.  Smaller box is the cab of the truck.
2. Cut 8 wheels from cardboard.  Paint them, and glue them on the truck. 6 in the back and two up front.
3. Paint a straw, and glue it between the boxes.
4. Cut details from foam paper and construction paper, and glue them on.

• Airplane: Paper towel tube, paint, construction paper, white paper, marker, foam paper, glue

1. Make a basic body. You can over tube with paint or paper.  Draw little windows on white paper and cut them out and glue them onto the tube.
2. Make a short cone for the nose of the place and decorate before attaching.
3. Cut wings and triangular tail sections from foam paper.  Attach with lots of glue. 

Activities:

• Cars: Toy car, Fill it up book by Gail Gibbons, Magazines, state road map, scissors, glue

1. Read fill it up book and discuss the story.
2. Show your child a road map and talk about how to use a map when they are traveling in a car.
3. Provide magazines for your child to cut out small pictures of cars.
4. Display the map on a table and ask your child to locate the places on the map where they want to glue their cars.  Ask them why they would want to go there and maybe do some research on that place with your child.

• Story-Time Stomp:  Children's book with a familiar word repeated throughout.

1. Give the children a quick but inviting introduction about this activity.  For example, "I'm going to read a story that might have the word____ in it.  I'm not sure where this word is or exactly how many times I might read it, but it's a special word in this story. Now, here's a special assignment for you:  Every-time I say the word(______) you need to jump up and stomp your feet. Then, sit back down so I can continue reading the story!"  (You may ask the children one quick time before you start reading, "So what's the magic word that will make you jump and stomp your  feet?" Begin reading the story and pause appropriately each time the magic word is said to allow time for the children. 

•  Some Suggested Books:

1. Down by the Station by Will Hillenbrand
2. I went walking by Sue Williams

Snack/Food:

• Peanuts, Vehicle Gummies, Macaroni Wheels
• Marshmallow Trains: Use Pretzel sticks to hook the "cars" together and use peanut butter to attach Cherrios to the marshmallows.

Education:

Letter/Words:

• Word of the Day: Index card, Pen

1. He
2. Have your child make sentences with the word He.  Write a funny story using this word and the other words they know.
3. Use their flash cards and practice the words.
4. Have them write out the words.

• Which One?  Magazines or Store Ads

1. Sit down with your child and look at a store ad.  Ask your child to find things that start with the letter A and so on.  Apple, Bread, Carrots, etc.
2. How many can your child get.

• Opposites: Magazines, Scissors, glue, paper

1. Ahead of time find things that are opposites in a magazine, ads or draw them.  Cut them out and glue them on opposite sides of a piece of paper.  For example:  Left hand-Right hand, Short-Tall, Small-Large, Black-White, Day-Night, Awake-Asleep, Up-Down, Under-Over, etc.
2. Then have your child match the two opposites.
3. You can cover the paper with contact paper and have your child use dry erase markers, so that you can use them over an over again.

Numbers:

• Number Puzzle: Index cards, marker

1. Write the numbers 1-10 on the index cards.  One number on each index cards.
2. Ten cut the cards in half in different shapes.  Make sure part of the number is on each half.
3. Then have your child try to put the number cards together.

• Grocery Ad Numeral Game: Grocery ad, crayon

1. Place a grocery ad on the floor and sit by it with your child.
2. Give your child a crayon and ask them to find the number 1 and have them circle all the ones.
3. Repeat this with numbers 2-9.  
4. Ask your child how much something is and work with them.  For example: if something costs .79 cents have them say the seven and nine and then ask them to put it together.

Music:

• The Airplane Song:  Tune "The Wheels of the Bus."

The pilot on the airplane says fasten your belts(fasten seat belts)

Fasten your belts, fasten your belts.

The pilot on the airplane says fasten your belts

When flying through the sky.

Additional verses:

The children on the airplane go bumpity bump...(move up an down)

The babies on the airplane go waa, waa, waa...(rub eyes and pretend to cry)

The signs on the airplane go ding, ding, ding.... (point to signs)

The drinks on the airplane go splish, splish, splish.....(pretend to hold a glass and move it.)

The luggage on the plane goes up and down.....(pretend to be luggage going up and down.)

At the end of the song, say, "We have reached our destination.  You may now unbuckle your seat-belts!"

Maybe you and your child can write additional lines.

Nursery Rhymes: 

• Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat: Rhymes and Origins

Books:

• Richard Scarry's Cars by Richard Scarry
• Truck by Donald Crews
• Wheel Away! by Dayle A. Dodds
• How many Trucks Can a Tow Truck Tow? by Charlotte Pomerantz
• Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh
• One Cow Moo Moo by David Bennett
• One, Two, Three by Tana Hoban
• Hot Air Henry by Mary Calhoun

Transportation Week: Tuesday!