Automobiles: Day Five

Field Trip!

Drive in the car, talking about automobiles, singing The Wheels on the Bus and other songs.

Go to a bus barn, fire station, car show, parking lot---anywhere with a lot of cars.

Automobiles: Day Four

Automobile Safety-

Talk about rules, signs, etc.  Teach about being safe around vehicles.

Use the shapes and colors of road signs to teach children.

Use streetlights---Stop, go, slow.

Read Go, Dog, Go!

Play Red Light, Green Light.

Practice safety while on a walk.

Automobiles: Day Three

Automobile Centers--
Set up centers with different car/bus/truck related themes and let child play.

Car Wash

Build a Car--use a big box.

roadways and ramps--build a city, streets--play with cars on the roads.

Automobiles: Day Two

Wheels

Learn the shape of wheels.
Wheels help cars go.


Read:
The Wheels on the Bus--

Songs/Fingerplays:

Wheels on the bus
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round, round and round,
The wheels on the bus go round and round
All through the town.
Other verses:
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish.
The doors on the bus go open and shut.
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep.
The driver on the bus says, "Move on back."
The people on the bus go up and down.
Wheels
Wheels big,
(form big circle with fingers)
Wheels small,
(form little circles with fingers)
Count them one by one
Turning as they're pedaled
(make pedaling motion with hands)
In the springtime sun,
1-2-3-4-5
(count fingers)

Activities:
Motor around the room with your child and pretend to drive with plastic plates (steering wheels).

Bring in a bicycle and show how the wheels go around. Then, make wheels out of paper plates with 1 - 7 spokes. Have your children put them in order.
Car Wheel Painting
Need: small cars and trucks, paint, construction paper.
Provide large sheets of paper and low flat pans of tempera paint (pie tins). Encourage the children to place the small cars and trucks in the paint. They can then make car and truck tracks onto their construction paper.

Tracks a Wheel Makes

Let your children drive toy vehicles through several different substances (water, paint, mud, shaving cream, silly putty, etc) Talk to them about the different tracks that is made in the different substances.

Wheels On A Road
Need: small outline of a school bus or other vehicle, long strips of white paper, crayons.
Give each child a long strip of white paper with a small paper autos glued on the left-hand side. Have the children lay the long strip of paper on the floor. Tell the children that this is the road the bus drives on, and ask them to draw all the things that are on each side of the road.

Tire Rubber
Cut off several pieces of rubber from old tires. Place the tire rubber pieces on the science table with magnifying glasses.

Wheel Sequence
Cut out various sized circles from posterboard to represent wheels. Have the children sequence the wheels from largest to smallest.

Rolling Jars

Get several Clear Jars of the same size. Put different small materials in each one (a marble, crayon, block, pencil, etc.). Let the children roll them around discuss with them how the items affect the jars ability to roll.

Snack:

Cheese Wheels
Cut cheese slices using a cookie cutter into circle shapes to represent wheels. Top each round cheese slice with raisins or serve with crackers.

Automobiles: Day One

Cars, Trucks, and Buses

Identify major types of land transportation.
Learn some of the visible parts of automobiles.
Build some automobiles.


Read some books about cars, trucks, or buses:
I Love Trucks!--Philemon SturgesThe Wheels on the Bus
Racecar Color Book
Make this Go, Car, Go Book

Auto Songs:

I'm a Little Piece of Tin

I'm a little piece of tin,
Nobody knows what shape I'm in,
Got four wheels and a runnin' board,
I'm a four door - I'm a Ford!

Chorus:

Honk, honk, rattle, rattle, rattle, crash, beep, beep
Honk, honk, rattle, rattle, rattle, crash, beep, beep
Honk, honk, rattle, rattle, rattle, crash, beep, beep
Honk, Honk

Watching Traffic
(Tune to “Frere Jacques”)
Watch the cars go, watc h the cars go,
Whiz-zing by, whiz-zi ng by,
Beep beep beep beep b eep beep
Beep beep beep beep beep beep,
That’s like mine! That’s like mine!

Watch the bus go, wa tch the bus go,
Rolling by, rolling by,
Stop for all the people, st op for all the
people,
Get on board! Get on board!

See the trucks go, see the trucks go,
Down the street, down the street,
Gas and oil and milk trucks,
Mail and trash and dump trucks,
On their way, on their way.


Big Truck, Little Truck
Big truck, big truck, how do you go?
Forward, backwa rd, fast or slow.
Little truck, little truck, How do you go?
Forward, backward, fast or slow.


With your child, loo k through picture books about cars and trucks. Talk about the colors of th e vehicles and the visible parts (windows, wheels, windshield wipers, etc.)


Activities:

C is for Car: Trace the letter C, color a car, and use the cut-outs to put the pieces of th e car together. (use the same idea for T is for Truck, B is for Bus, or V is for Van.)

Transportation College

Using magazines have children cut out pictures of cars and trucks. Children then glue their pictures onto construction paper

Car Coloring Pages:--You could use some of these images for child to do a custom paint job on their cars/trucks.
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Truck Coloring Pages:
Here

Car Shapes Craft: Use different shapes to put together a car.

Egg Carton Dump Truck Craft

Truck Directional Art

Bus Directional Art

Bus Ideas

My favorite Transportation

Materials:

• Cardboard Boxes
• Various Other Art Supplies of Your Choice

Directions:

• Give each child a box. Have them design their favorite mode of transportation (to help them you could provide pictures). If you do not have enough space you could have the children work in pairs.

Ramps

Make several ramps of different heights for your children to play with. Ask them which one makes the cars go faster. See if they can tell you why. If not tell them why.

Car Wash
Play with your child at a water table or at the sink with water and toy cars. Provide a sponge, brush, washcloth, and a spray bottle for your child to use to wash and dry the cars.