HS Buildings

Interest Area Changes to Environment

Measuring tapes

Carpenter’s rulers

T-squares

Magazines

Scissors

Books about building and construction

Pictures of buildings

Tool belt

Hard hat

Toolkit

Small construction vehicles

Craft sticks

Molding clay/Playdough

Big boxes

Masking tape

Teaching Concepts for Large Group

Construction Site Vocabulary*

Introduce students to construction-specific vocabulary words by adding word cards with visuals to the literacy center this week.

Which building do you like best? (Display two different building photos.)

Which would you use to build your house: straw, sticks,  or bricks?

How many doors are in our classroom?

How many windows are in our classroom?

What do you want to know about buildings?

Teaching Concepts for Small Group

Cooperative City Build

Have each child decorate a cereal box like a building and then work together to set up their city. They can also build roads and place them around their town.

Paint with Nuts and Bolts

Try painting with nuts and bolts similar to marble painting!

Paint with Rollers

Preschoolers can use rollers to paint blocks, boxes, or try painting the sidewalk outside with water.

Build a Construction Vehicle

Cut out a variety of shapes from construction paper. Invite children to use different shapes to make their own construction vehicle. have them glue to a piece of white paper so that they can display them.

Build a House

Put on a hard hat and Construct houses out of Lego or other interlocking blocks

Dump Truck Letter Match*

Set out a toy Dump truck. Write letters on craft stones. Using letter cards, have students, flip and find the matching letter rock, and place it inside the dump truck. You can practice matching letter the same letter cases, or upper to lower. For added fun, you can call out a word, and have your student locate the first sound. Children can get extra fine motor practice by using tongs to place the rock in the truck.

Construction and Building Sort*

Have students sort construction and building related items by vehicles and tools. This helps children practice sorting by class of item an important pre-literacy skill. You can also have students name each item as they choose the picture in order to help build vocabulary.

Teaching Concepts for Music Movement Wellness IMIL

1.Rhythm Sticks 

All you need is a bell and a set of rhythm sticks for a fun movement activity on a rainy/snowy day! (And it really fine tunes Listening Skills!) “Click” a slow beat on the sticks. Call this “walking music”. Then “click” out a faster beat with the sticks. Call this “jogging music”. Now, ask the children to listen to the sticks’ rhythm. When they hear the “walking music”, they should walk around the room. When they hear the “jogging music”, jog. Now ring the bell. This means “stop and drop”. Now, have fun with the slow and fast beats of the sticks (“walking music” and “jogging music” ) and ring the bell. The children will get a great physical and auditory workout.

2.  Hammer Song 

{child's name} works with one hammer, one hammer, one hammer 

{child's name} works with one hammer, { child's name}works with two. 

{ child's name} works with two hammers, two hammers, two hammers. 

{child's name} works with two hammers, { child's name} works with three. 

We say every one's names, and swing one arm, then two arms, stomp one foot, then both feet, swing head forward and backwards, etc....when we have several kids, we jump up and down, swing our hips, do jumping jacks until every one's names have been used as well as a different movement) 

I have made up hammers of different colors and each child receives a hammer and we sing the hammer song

{child's name} works with red hammer, red hammer, red hammer 

{child's name} works with red hammer, { child's name} works with blue

{ child's name} works with blue hammer, blue hammer, blue hammer {child's name} works with blue hammer, {child's name} works with pink

Teaching Concepts for Fingerplays

1. Old Mac Donald Built a House

Tune:  “Old Mac Donald”

Old Mac Donald built a house,
E I E I O
And in his house he built a fireplace
E I E I O
With a brick, brick here and a brick, brick there.
Here a brick, there a brick, everywhere a brick, brick.
Old Mac Donald built a house,
E I E I O.

(Continue with other verses about other things he built into

his house, such as floors, windows and doors.)

(Or let your children take turns singing the song about themselves

building a house and what they would build in it.) 

2. I'm a Builder
Tune:  “Frere Jacques”

I’m a builder,
I’m a builder
Watch me pound,
Hear my sound.
Tap, a tap, a tap, tap.
Tap, a tap, a tap, tap.
Hear me pound,
Hear me pound!

3. This Is The Way We Build a House

Tune:  “Mulberry Bush”

This is the way we build a house,
Build a house, build a house.
This is the way we build a house,
So early in the morning.

This is the way we hammer the nails,
Hammer the nails, hammer the nails.
This is the way we hammer the nails,
So early in the morning.

This is the way, we saw the wood,
Saw the wood, saw the wood.
This is the way we saw the wood,
So early in the morning.
Adapted Traditional
(Continue with other verses of other things you do to build the house.)

4. London Bridges

Tune:  “London Bridges”

London Bridges falling down,
Falling down, falling down.
London bridges falling down,
So early in the morning.

This is the way we build it up,
Build it up, build it up.
This is the way we build it up,
So early in the morning.
Traditional

(Children face each other and hold hands up in an Arch and then let their hands fall down)

(Children put their hands back up)

5. SEE WHAT I BUILT TODAY!
Tune:  “Mary Had a Little Lamb”

I just love to hammer wood,
Hammer wood, hammer wood.
I just love to hammer wood,
See what I built today!

I just love to saw the wood,
Saw the wood, saw the wood.
I just love to saw the wood,
See what I built to day!

I just love to sand the wood,
Sand the wood, sand the wood.
I just love to sand the wood,
See what I built today!

Teaching Concepts for Outdoor Experiences

1.Weighing Rocks

Have students gather a variety of different rocks. Weigh each to see which one weighs the most. Have students make predictions about the rocks weights and practice using the scale.

2. Traffic Cone Shapes

Talk about the difference between a cone and a triangle, see if students can find other examples of a cone, this is a great introduction of 3D shapes.

3. Construction Yoga-Gross Motor

"Set up a pirate obstacle course for children to go through. Some ideas for the course include:

-Balance beams as planks

-Scooter boards as dinghies

-Ramps as ship gangplanks

-Rubber circles as stepping stones

-sandbox as quick sand "

4. Drive Around The Construction Site-Gross Motor

Put down different lines  on the floor for children to follow using painters tape or outside with chalk. Give each child a toy construction vehicle and have them drive the vehicles along the lines.

5. Build Block Relay-Good Motor

Have children line up on one side. The child at the front of the line, grabs a wooden block, runs to the other side and starts a building. They run back and the next child grabs a block, runs down and adds their block to the building.

CLASS Concepts

Teaching Concepts for Distance Learning