Transportation - Week Three

Monday's Schedule

Book -  Busy Train Book

Movement - All Aboard the Train
I set up chairs in a line and printed out train ticket ( I found the images here -http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2013/02/transportation-for-preschoolers-part-2.html)
I pretended to be the conductor and had them tell me where they wanted to go and then punched their ticket and told them to find a seat.  Then we pretended to start the train and made every stop they wanted.  They choose, beach, Disneyland, circus, park, and Santa.  It was so cute.  They got SO into it.  We did it for forty five minutes!  I was planning on letting them take turns being the conductor and punching holes in the tickets but the hole puncher was not working well.  But I am sure they would have loved that too.

Art/Craft - Trains
We painted toilet paper rolls and then let them dry.  The glued on wheels and funnel.  They turned out pretty cute and the kids love them.

Alphabet - Train Parking Lot
I made parking lot on cardboard with upper case letters on each space.  Then I had trains that had lower case letters on them.  They had to park their trains in the right parking spot.  They did so well at this and really enjoyed it.

Game - Pushing Cars
I was to cold to go outside so I brought the pushing cars inside and let them go a little crazy.  Moved the table and everything out of their way.  I think next time I will bundle up and go outside with the cars.

Wednesday's Schedule

Book - Splat the Cat

Movement - Astronauts
They talked about astronauts and then watched video of a blast off.  The loved loved this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnoNITE-CLc

Art/Craft - Rockets
Kathryn cut out the different shapes of a rocket and they glued them together and then made stars and moon out of glue and glitter.  These turned out super cute!

Numbers - Driving on the Line
The kids would take turns picking a card that had dots on it.  They had to count the dots and then match that to the number.  Kathryn set up paths on her floor that lead to different numbers.  The kids had to drive on the path that matched the number of dots.  They really enjoyed this and helped each other figure out which path the follow.

Game - Dots
Kathryn found dot worksheets (http://homeschoolcreations.com/astronautpreschoolpack.html).  She also had the kids work on the tracing work sheet.  They are getting better at tracing and writing.