Transportation in the Air and Water

This week we learned about ways to travel in the air and the water with our Mother Goose Time.

Day 1: Airplane

At circle time, we talked about where we can go in an airplane. I set out a variety of paper shapes and we “flew” around the room pretending to be airplanes. Miss M thought this was super fun and pretty much just ran around squealing in delight instead of making airplane noises. We also sang “I’m an Airplane” to the tune of “London Bridge”.

Miss M’s grandma broke her foot today and we needed to go over and help her out so we didn’t get to do all of our activities as planned for the day. The one thing she really loved doing was making airplane designs. I’d give her a triangle to put on the mat and when she’d set it on the mat, we’d say “triangle”. I showed her how to take 2 triangles and make a square.

Day 2: Hot Air Balloon

Today we learned about hot air balloons. At circle time we talked about what makes a hot air balloon move. I got out our laundry basket and we pretended to take a hot air balloon ride while we sang “One Balloon, Two Balloons” to the tune of “One Potato, Two Potatoes”. We tried our best to count the balloons on our fingers as we sang too.

Miss M’s poor grandma not only broke her foot yesterday, but she tripped and fell last night and broke her arm too! We’re going to be having to go over and help her out the next couple of weeks but we’re still going to try to do as many school activities that we can.

We learned about the signs for up and down.

I’d have Miss M show me one finger and we practiced pointing up and jumping. Then we would point down and squat.

We also made a little paper hot air balloon.

I gave Miss M a little paper balloon to color and while she was doing this, I used the paper strips we were given and I weaved the basket for our hot air balloon.

 

This was our finished hot air balloon.

Day 3: Helicopter

During today’s circle time, we talked about helicopters. We also learned about our sight words “we”, “go”, “by”, and “in”. Then we sung “The Helicopter Blades” to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus”. We weren’t able to do everything today due to appointments but we still had fun.

One of the activities we did today was making a little propeller hat!

We talked about how a helicopter moves through the air while we made it. We were given a little paper bowl, a chipboard propeller, brass fastener, and an elastic. I gave the bowl to Miss M to decorate and then we attached the propeller through the top with the brass fastener. We took turns wearing our hat and pretending to be helicopters flying around the room.

Day 4: Tugboat

During today’s circle time, we talked about different types of boats and what a tugboat is. We talked about the letter Tt and tried to say the tongue twister “Tommy Tugboat towed two turtles” faster and faster each time. Miss M thought this was hilarious but couldn’t really repeat it.

Our first activity for the day was playing with our transportation puzzle.

We talked about the different shapes we could see on the different transportation vehicles on the puzzle and then I encouraged Miss M to try to follow the puzzle guides and arrange the shapes to look like the vehicle pictured. When we were finished playing, I cut apart the guides and put the cards and pieces in the envelope we were supplied with to play again later.

We also practiced making patterns.

We talked about what sounds tugboats make and then we watched a little video online of a tugboat. Then we used our pattern cards to try to complete the ABC pattern on the guide. I tried getting Miss M to make a different sound for each object in the pattern (car, helicopter, tugboat) but she wanted to just call them by name. She did a really good job at repeating the ABC pattern.

Day 5: Canoe

For our last day of the week, we learned about canoes. At circle time we talked about where we can go in a canoe. We learned about the letters Ww and Tt and we sang “Row Your Boat”

Our first activity was playing with our storytelling set. I’d give Miss M a storytelling piece and then we’d try to retell a simplified version of our “A Ride for Duck” story we received with this month’s curriculum. I’d give Miss M a one-step direction for where to put the piece I handed her (“put the duck in the truck”, etc). We’re still working on following directions but she did pretty well for the most part.

 

We also played a Counting Canoe game. We were given a little canoe to make out of paper and some little people pieces. We talked about how many people we think can fit inside a canoe.

I put two people pieces in the canoe and I handed it to Miss M. I’d ask her “how many people are in the canoe?” and then we’d count together. We’d add another person to our canoe and then we’d count again.