Down the Road

This month’s theme is all about transportation and this week we got to learn about different things that have to do with roads.

Our first activity was building some road art.

We sat down and cut some black paper into strips and I used some chalk to draw the road lines. Mother Goose Time provided us with some little paper road signs along with straws that I cut to makes the posts with along with some little foam circles to help them stand with. We made the little signs and Miss M had a lot of fun setting up the road signs and pretending to drive along the roads with the paper cars she was given as well.

We also played construction sign. I set out some paper cones and some blocks in different corners of our room. Then I’d encourage Miss M to run to a cone, pick up a block, and bring it back to our “construction area”. Once all our blocks were collected, I had her help me count and stack them. Miss M was more interested in stacking the cones though.

We also got to make a neat traffic sign and talk about what traffic signs are for. We played a fun little game where I’d flip open a flap to uncover a color and we’d dance and movie either quickly (green), slowly (yellow), or freeze (red). This was lots of fun.

Then we got to read our storybook that Mother Goose Time gave us with this month’s curriculum. It is called “A Ride for Duck” and it’s a super cute story about a duck trying to get a ride to get some foot cream because he accidently stepped on a dangerous wire. We also tried making different vehicle sounds. Miss M had fun making the truck and airplane sounds.

I also got out our My Little Journal along with some of our plane and train counters and Miss M decorated the front of it.

We also played Five on the Bridge. We made a little bridge using some blocks and our counting card. Then we pretended to drive trains onto the bridge and park 5 on the card. We’d point to one at a time and count them.

Next, Miss M got to make a little bridge using cornstarch noodles.

We learned about the letter C.

And we had a theme poster hunt.

And we also learned about service stations/mechanics!

Mother Goose Time gave us materials to make a cute little toolbox that Miss M loved. She ran around putting things in it. We sat down and pretended to use our toolbox to fix cars too.