Tillery Tot School: Transportation

We have had such a fun time these last three weeks! We learned all about transportation. There are tons and tons of things that you can do for transportation. Here's what we enjoyed over the last few weeks...

Our Tot School Board:

 

I've already shared transportation sorting,

the transportation scavenger hunt,

the cardboard box parking garage,

and painting with cars and the car wash.

We also attached markers to our cars and drove the cars around and around.

We did some counting with our monster truck. Seth is obsessed with monster trucks right now so this was such a big hit. We would line up the number of cars listed on the paper, count them, then drive over them. So simple and so fun!

I picked up this magnetic transportation puzzle at a local consignment sale. It has been a big hit among both boys these last few weeks.

I spent less than $5 on a bag of rice and filled an empty storage container with it. Seth has loved playing with all his construction vehicles in it.

We decorated a car using stickers and made wheels from some plastic bottle caps.

I made Seth an apple car one day for lunch.

I saw this easy game where you match up the upper case wheel with the lower case wheel. Seth wasn't a huge fan of it, but I will save it for later just in case we want to try it again.

We had to match up vehicles in every transportation book we owned and the ones from the library.

We did some stamping.

We made a bus using half of an egg carton. We painted it yellow and added some black foam wheels.

  
We also glued foam transportation pieces to a sheet of paper.

 We made a traffic signal using a Popsicle stick and a red, yellow, and green pom pom. I did the gluing with my hot glue gun, but Seth did the blowing to make sure it was cool enough to quickly play with it.

 We stuck it in a piece of playdough and then went over what each color means.

 We also played a parking game. 

I would call out a letter and Seth would have to park his vehicle in the correct parking space.

 One night we went to the airport, the train depot, the skate park, the hospital's helicopter, and by the WKU buses. We had a lot of fun finding lots of transportation in our community.

We also thought since we were studying transportation we would get Seth his own bike. He still hasn't mastered the pedaling, but he already wants to be just like daddy (since he rides a bike to work almost every day).

We did talk about community helpers especially the ones that correlated to a specific vehicle, but we'll work some more on that later. In two weeks we will start our "Preschool at Home" so stay tuned for more learning!