Transportation

Transportation

We are sending home the houses that were made as part of our last unit.  They had a blast using the houses with the roads they made to make neighborhoods and driving to each others house. I apologize as some of the houses are not being return in the same condition as they were sent in as they were played with for several weeks by the Lucky Duck friends. 

Transportation Weeks 1 & 2

During the next two weeks we will begin our unit about Transportation. Here are the theme concepts for this unit:

• There are many different modes of transportation
• Transportation is a way of moving people or things
• Transportation changes over time
• The choice of transportation depends on where you are going and what you are transporting
• There is public and private transportation
• There is land, sea and air transportation

The questions we will be answering in this unit are:

• What is transportation?
• What are the different modes of transportation?
• Why would we use different modes of transportation?
• Where would you find different kinds of transportation?
• How is transportation powered?
• What gets transported and how?

Week of March 21-25th - This week we are focusing on land travel

Books for the week:

Mr. George Baker by: Amy Hest

Freight Train by: Donald Crews

Small Groups:

1. Handwriting without Tears Traffic Light
2. Transportation Bingo
3. Cars counting book

Choice time:

Art Table:  Making Hats

Easel: Closed

Manipulatives: car counters
Library Area: Books about transportation
Sensory Table: water

Dramatic Play: kitchen

Rug Toy: Doll Houses

Block Area

Playdough

Week of March 28th

Books for the week:

Taxi Dog by Debra and Sal Barracca

Freight Train by Donald Crews

Small Groups:

1. Name Trains

2. Sorting same/ different

3. Transportation Vocab Book

Choice time:

Art Table:  build-a-tracks

Manipulatives: car counters - sorting by different attributes
Library Area: Books about transportation
Sensory Table: water

Dramatic Play: kitchen

Community Helpers

Week of March 7th

Books for the week:

Just Going to the Dentist

My New Neighbor

Caps for Sale

Small Groups

1. Matching Vehicles to Community Helpers

2.Bingo

Week of March 14th

Wilfirid Gordon Partridge

Just Going to the Dentist - Mercer Mayer

Small Groups:

1.Firefighter Positional Book

2. Sorting mail by size

3. Dentist Sequencing

Choice time:

Technology - Ipad and Smartboard Games

Dramatic Play - Making a neighborhood 
Sending Letters from our Post Office
Next week - The airport

Brushing Teeth - Students are using Shaving Cream on a toothbrush to practice brushing teeth (on paper)

Math - Making shape with Geoboards

Water Table - Squirting out the fire - Each flame has a numeral written on it.  Students put out the fire by squirting the flame the same amount of times as the numeral.