Friendly Frogs: Transportation Week

It's March!
Letter: R
Shape: Clover
Number: 4
Color: Dark Green and Light Green

Literature:

Book: Go! Go! Go! by Roxie Munro
Book: Cars by Ann Rockwell
Book: Down by the Station by Jennifer Riggs Vetter
Book: I Love Trucks by Philemon Sturges
Book: That’s Not My Tractor by Fiona Watt
Book: I am a Backhoe by Anna Grossnickle Hines







Share: Bring a toy car, bike, helicopter, train, or airplane, etc

Cognitive: Transportation Memory Match Provide 8 x 10 photos of various forms of transportation for a memory match game!

Gross Motor: Cozy Coupe Cars, Bikes, and Scooters
Encourage the children to draw a road using sidewalk chalk, for the cars to drive on.

Dramatic Play: Carwash!
Add suds and wash rags to the science buckets and sponges and encourage the children to give their cars a good scrub. I was amazed at how well the kids kept themselves dry during this actvity...especially since it was at the end of our school day. I was not surprised by how soaked corbin got, though! he was drenched within minutes.

Fine Motor: Train Set and Cars for open centers. Make a clover with the railroad tracks.

Phonics: R is for Railroad!


We created a list of R words while the children colored a letter R and glued a railroad sign to it

Art: Green Car Art
Science: Color Mixing
Put drops of paint on a paper in a box and encourage the children to drive their cars through the tracks to create a new color
Yellow + Blue = Green!


Question: What is transportation?

Handwriting/Fine Motor: Create Letter R shaped roads for the children to trace by driving small, toy cars on.

Practical Life: Street Safety

Sensory: Magic Beans!
I bought a pack of those water-soluble capsules that have the tiny sponges in them. The children picked out capsules, looked at the photo on the package, and guessed which shape/form of transportation their sponge would be. They had to wait a few minutes and massage the capsules in their hands to get them to dissolve, but it was worth the wait. They were pretty excited. Sometimes, it's the simplest little treasures that bring complete joy to a group of kids.

The sponges were a big hit. The kids are going to die with excitement in a few weeks when they find out I bought a pack of sea creature sponges for Under the Sea week, coming up! I think the tiny shapes would be great for stamping with paint, or just gluing to a collage.

Music and Movement: Transportation songs
Wheels on the Bus, Driving in the Car, This is a Song About Sammy, Down By the Station