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Transportation Misc
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Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: lisak33617@yahoo.com Area: Transportation-Misc Idea: The concepts is the idea of roads, and what they are used for. We make a classroom map. First the students make wheel prints on their own individual paper, talk about how that looks like a road. Introduce what a map is. Then with a big sheet of butcher paper each child has a car, and proceeds to make roads on our map. The following day we make houses, with stamps. We label the house as who's it is, and who lives in it. Next, we use water colors to add water to our map. Then, green markers/crayons, to add trees and grass. Lastly, when going over the cardinal signals add N S E W. Now the students can use it for dramatic car play, and it is also great to display and show parents. Contact_FullName: Patti Contact_Email: phanfl@aol.com Area: Transportation Idea: In our writing center, we made transportation books. We got magazines and had the children cut out pictures of different vehicles and glued them in their very own transportation books. This was great for improving their cutting skills. Contact_FullName: Andrea Contact_Email: aorchard@neo.rr.com Area: Transportation Idea: For our school bulletin board, I covered the bb with pages from a map. Then I made license plates out of construction paper for each of the teacher's names...abbreviating their names phonetically. The heading on the bb was "Climb on board...We're headed for success!!" (Boy I wish I had spell check!!) 1-13-01We draw a large school bus and let the children paint it yellow. Then we make windows; 1 for each child. We give them a mirror and have them look in the mirror and draw themselves in the window of the bus.
10-23-00During circle time, I showed the kids a map and we talked about what a map is used for and the different things that could be found on a map (rivers, roads, etc.) I then placed a map on a table along with small rubber vehicles (the kind used for sorting and color recognition). The kids had an opportunity to "drive" their vehicles around on the map and further familiarize themselves with the map. Another unexpected lesson was on map folding!
9-30-00Put your state map on a table and highlight 2 major cities. Let the children find all the different ways to get from one point to another by tracing roads with a marker. This opens great conversation. about all the different way to get to the same location! This works well with 4 year olds.
7-16-00Buy an giant helium balloon and attach yarn to the sides. Connect the strings to a large sized box to make a hot air balloon. Children love to throw out and pull in bean bags (also connected to strings) so that they can take off and land in a hot air balloon.
6-5-00For our transportation unit I cut car shapes out of white poster board and letting the children each choose any color they wished, I had them finger-paint their car shapes. The title of the bulletin board reads: Where Is Your Car Going? I made roads out of rectangular pieces of black construction paper, and stapled to the b.b. on a slant so that roads went up and down. I used chalk to make a dashed line down the middle of the "roads". I "interviewed" each child separately and asked them where their car was going. Each answer was different because they could not hear each other's responses. I typed up their answers using a child-like font in parenthesis and their name underneath. It made a very colorful display with orange, blue, green and purple cars!
4-13-00areaThis is a bulletin board that the children will enjoy making. It is a three day process. On the first day the children are given large, green, tree-top shapes and asked to make collages. They can use dried peas, green tissue paper, green paint, any materials which are green to make their own unique collages. On the second day, the children are given different shades of blue paper, scissors, glue, cotton balls, and glitter to make their own clouds. On the third day, they are given a picture of themselves which can fit into a square shape inside different colored airplane shapes. They can chose whatever color they want and decorate their planes however they want. The green collage tree-tops are placed on the lower section of the bulletin board and the clouds are placed towards the top area while the airplanes are scattered about the board with black "flying marks" trailing behind. The children will enjoy seeing themselves as pilots on the bulletin board.
Date: 3-30-00License Plates: Cut construction paper in half and make different colored rectangles. Write child's name at the top and state you're in at the bottom. Use the black and white "mailbox" sticker letters and numbers as the license plate numbers...the kids love stickers! These turn out very cute!
Date: 3-11-00Take a suitcase to Circle Time. Tell the children you are taking a trip on an airplane (train, boat,...) but don't know what to pack in your suitcase to take with you. Ask if the children have any ideas. After getting their ideas, say, "Let's see how I did packing my suitcase. Do I need to take _____?" (pull out a pair of underwear for example-I took a pair of my son's) "How about this_______?" (pull out an egg beater) Discuss why each item is needed or not.
Date: 3-11-00Use either a sensory table, dish buckets, or a wading pool for this activity. Place gravel and other rocks and add trucks, bulldozers, etc. The kids really enjoy driving through the quarry. This could works for a unit on Community Helpers or Transportation.
Date: 3-7-00Trace top part of hot air balloon on construction paper and have children cut out. You can decorate with dot stampers or bingo markers. Then cut a brown square out of construction for the gondola. Glue child's picture on the square and hang from balloon with two pieces of yarn. Hang on a blue bulletin board with cotton balls for clouds and title "Up, Up and Away"
Date: 2-25-00During our unit on Transportation we always invite the local fire dept. to bring the fire trucks to our program. The children in my program are little, 6 months to 5 years old, so they mostly get to climb in the fire truck and look around. The older children talk to the fire fighters about what to do if their is ever a fire in their home. We also have had the police come and the ambulance. Our church has a small bus that we also tour. The kids love to experience transportation!
Date: 1-17-00I did a lesson on trains, so in my sensory table I placed peanuts, the ones still in their shell. My children loved smelling and touching them. Place some brown paper bags in the table, and the children can bag the peanuts up. Date: 1-9-00Popsicle Stick Boats You will need 12 Popsicle sticks (craft sticks) per child and lots of glue! Ask the child to count out 12 Popsicle sticks; lay 10 going horizontal and 2 vertical. The 2 vertical ones will be at opposite ends, laying on top of the horizontal ones. Spread lots of glue on them and lay out to dry. Once dry you can use markers or paint to decorate your boat. Date: 1-9-00The Wheels on the Bus Provide a stencil (make one out of tagboard) and have the child trace it on yellow construction paper, the the child can cut it out. Then provide empty spools and a saucer of paint. The child can dip the spool in the paint and then on the bus. Date: 1-9-00Provide the child with a piece of red and yellow construction paper; make a triangle stencil out of tagboard and a 1/2 circle stencil too. The child can trace them on the paper and then cut them out to make a sail boat. Glue them down and then provide blue paint and sponges for the water. Date: 1-9-00Sand/Water table ideas 1. Put sand in the table and land vehicles 2. Put water in the table and boats 3. Put shaving cream in the table and space stuff.
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