EHS Transportation

Changes to Environment

Pictures of different types of transportation (bus, truck, train, motorcycle, plane, boat, etc)

Toy cars, trucks, buses, planes, motorcycles, boats, trains, etc

Transportation Stamps

Transportation Cookie Cutters

Books about transportation

Car magazines

Transportation File Folder Game (ex. match transportation to way of transporting ex boat to water, plane to sky, train on track, etc)

Road Signs, red light, etc

Road Maps

Globe

Goggles

Transportation Puzzles

Helmet

Community Helper Vehicles, Dress-Up Clothes, Figurines, etc.

Garage set up (tools, coveralls, pretend containers of oil, gas can, etc)

Homemade road pieces (make with construction paper and laminate)

Plastic train tracks

Small orange cones

Printable roads picklebums.com/printable-roads/

Water Table: boats, submarines, canoe, kayak, different vehicles, gears, bubbles, scrub brush, sponge, small buckets,  etc

Sensory Table: dirt, dump trucks, pickup trucks, tires, road signs, homemade road pieces, re, yellow, green pom poms etc

Teaching Concepts for Indoor Experiences

1. Talk about the different types of transportation and how they travel, look at pictures and/or toy transportation 

2. Talk about Pedestrian Safety, look at pictures and practice

3. Talk about road signs and look at pictures of each one, pretend play to practice what they mean

4. Make a chart about ways to travel. Land-car, bus, trains, bike. Air-airplane, helicopter, rocket, hot air balloon. 

Teaching Concepts for Small Group

1. Draw a picture of favorite type of transportation

2.  Transportation File Folder Game

3. Tire art (drive trucks, cars, etc. through paint then onto paper)

4. Put pieces of a transportation puzzle together

5.  Paint with plastic gears (dip gear in paint and stamp it on paper)

6. Build a road with homemade road pieces, drive vehicles on it

7. Build a car with blocks

10. Track Painting

Another mark-making activity that encourages early writing in preschools, is this track painting activity. You can use toy cars, trains, or any other mode of transportation you may have to lie in the toy box. Kids will ride the vehicle through a tray of paint and race it across some paper, forming interesting marks and tracks.

Teaching Concepts for Outdoor Experiences

1. Push or fly transportation vehicles around

2. Pretend to drive or fly

3. Play Red Light, Green Light

4. Have a pretend car race

5. Practice Stop and Go using signs

6. Drive between the lines

7. Car Wash

Teaching Concepts for Music Movement Wellness IMIL

1. Choo-Choo Train

This is a choo-choo train

(bend arm at elbow)

Puffing down the track.

(rotate arms in rhythm)

Now it’s going forward,

Now it’s going back.

(push arms in appropriate directions; continue rotating motion) Now the bell is ringing, (pull bell cord) Now the whistle blows (make sound) What a lot of noise it makes Everywhere it goes!

2. The Train on the Track (tune: Wheels on the Bus)

The train on the track goes chug, chug, chug, Chug, chug, chug, Chug, chug, chug, The train on the track goes chug, chug, chug all through the day

Other verses:

The boat on the water goes toot

The car on the road goes beep

The race car on the track goes zoom

The airplane in the sky goes way up high

3. The Wheels on the Bus

4. I Love My Car

I love my car, my car loves me, I built my car in a factory, my little car goes beep, beep , beep, beep beep beep beep beep, honk

I love my motorcycle, my motorcycle loves me, I built my motorcycle in a factory, my little motorcycle goes, vroom vroom vroom,

and my little car goes beep, beep, beep, beep, beep beep beep beep honk

I love my plane my train my train loves me, I built my train in a factory, my little train goes toot toot toot,

and my little motorcycle goes vroom vroom vroom, and my little car goes beep beep beep beep beep beep honk

(keep singing the song using different vehicles and going backwards)

5. Pete the Pilot

Pete the Pilot has a plane. Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.

And on that plane there are some wings. Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom

With a zoom, zoom here and a zoom, zoom there, here a zoom, there a zoom

Everywhere a zoom zoom. Pete the Pilot has a plane, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.

Dan the driver has car, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,

And on that car there is a horn, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep

With a beep, beep here and a beep, beep there, here a beep, there a beep

Everywhere a beep, beep. Dan the driver has a car, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

Mary the engineer has a train, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug,

And on that train there is a smokestack, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug

With a chug, chug here and a chug, chug there, here a chug, there a chug,

Everywhere a chug, chug. Mary the engineer had a train, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug.

(can continue on with different vehicles and sounds)

6. My Little Red Wagon (by Raffi)

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon, bumping up and down in my little red wagon

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon. Won’t you be my darlin!!!

One wheels off and the axel’s draggin, one wheels off and the axel’s broken

One wheels off and the axel’s draggin. Won’t you be my darlin!!

Freddie’s gonna fix it with his hammer, Freddie’s gonna fix it with his hammer,

Freddie’s gonna fix it with his hammer. Won’t you be my darlin!!

Laura’s gonna fix it with her pliers, Laura’s gonna fix it with her pliers,

Laura’s gonna fix it with her pliers. Won’t you be my darlin!!

Bumping up & down in my little red wagon, bumping up and down in my little red wagon

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon. Won’t you be my darlin!!

7. Stop, Look and Listen

Stop, look and listen. Stop, look and listen.

Before you cross the street, before you cross the street.

First use your eyes

Then use your ears

And then use your feet!

8. Airplanes Fly In the Sky

Airplanes fly in the sky, zoom zoom!  (zoom hand around)

Airplanes fly in the sky, zoom zoom!  (zoom hand around)

Round and round the airplanes go  (arm circles around)

Flying high, flying low  (arm circles up high, then down low)

Shhh… I think I hear one  (finger to lips, then cup ear) 

ZOOM! (zoom arm from one side to the other)

9. I’ve Been Working On the Railroad

I’ve been working on the railroad.

All the live-long day.

I’ve been working on the railroad.

Just to pass the time a-way.

Don’t you hear the whistle blowing?

Rise up so early in the morn’.

Don’t you hear the captain shouting;

Dinah blow your horn!

Some-one’s in the kitch-en with Di-nah

Some-one’s in the kitch-en

I know oh oh oh

Some-one’s in the kitch-en with Di-nah

Strum-min’ on the old ban-jo,

And sing-in’ Fee Fi Fid-dle-ee aye oh!

Fee Fi Fid-dle-ee aye oh oh oh oh!

Fee Fi Fid-dle-ee aye oh!

Strum-min’ on the old ban-jo!

Teaching Concepts for Fingerplays

1. Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light (tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)

Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light

Standing on the Corner Bright

Green means GO, we all know

Yellow means WAIT, even if you’re late

Red means STOP……

Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light,

Standing on the Corner bright

2. Wheels on the Bus

3. Train

This is a choo-choo train (Bend elbows)

Puffing down the track (Move arms forward)

Now it’s going forward (Push arms forward)

Now it’s going back (Push arms back)

Now the bell is ringing (Pretend to ring bell)

Now the whistle blows (Hold fist near mouth and pretend to blow)

What a lot of noise it makes

Everywhere it goes. (Cover ears with hands)

4.Traveling, Traveling (tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Row, row, row your boat, (pretend to row)

Gently round the lake.

Traveling, traveling on the water,

Boats are what you take.

Drive, drive, drive your car, (pretend to drive)

Have a merry cruise.

Traveling, traveling on the road,

Cars are what you use.

Fly, fly, fly your plane, (pretend to fly)

High up in the air.

Traveling, traveling through the sky,

Planes will get you there.

Chug, chug, chug your train, (pretend to pull the chain that blows the horn)

Chug along the track.

Traveling, Traveling on the rails,

Trains go there and back.

Stamp, stamp, stamp your feet, (stomp feet)

Stamp them on the ground.

Traveling, traveling on your feet,

Walk to get around!

Teaching Concepts for Distance Learning

1. Off We Go!

Pretending to be different modes of transportation is a fun and active way to help children move from place to place.

2. Explore Speed

Move fast, then really slow, and now in between. Which one makes your heart go faster?

3. Make a paper airplane and see how far you can make it fly.

4. https://pbskids.org/games

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