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, Â etc
Sensory Table: dirt, dump trucks, pickup trucks, tires, road signs, homemade road pieces, 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. Draw a picture of favorite type of transportation 3. Transportation File Folder Game 4. Talk about Pedestrian Safety, look at pictures and practice 5. Talk about road signs and look at pictures of each one, pretend play to practice what they mean 6. Tire art (drive trucks, cars, etc through paint then onto paper) 7. Put pieces of a transportation puzzle together 8. Paint with plastic gears (dip gear in paint and stamp it on paper) 9. Build a road with homemade road pieces, drive vehicles on it 10. Build a car with blocks 11. Drawing with cars (tape marker to back of car to where the tip of the marker touches the paper, children will push car around on paper)
12. Car Ramps
Building ramps for cars is another fun construction activity that kids love. All you need are some cars, planks of wood and some building blocks. Kids can experiment and observe what happens when they elevate the ramps to different heights and angles.
13. 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.
14. Parking Lot Number Recognition
15. Car Wash
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)Â
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.
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