Unit 11: Transportation Recap

We began the first week as we always do with a little letter fun! This week we pulled out the paint and play cars and didn’t waste any time! The girls painted the letter W with the Wheels of toy cars! Tire tracks make great decorations! 🙂 

Donald Crews is an author we’ve read a lot of books from this year. Freight Train didn’t disappoint. It was a perfect book to read/look through with all three of my children (ages 5, 3, and 1.) While Sadie (3) continued to explore the book and we talked about colors, Macie Jane used number train cars to practice ordering numbers. 

This activity helped her review number order but was also a good practice in left to right progression. 

When it was all finished I hung it up over our calendar area for a reference anchor. Isn’t it adorable?

Next up was a sorting activity. Macie Jane and Sadie looked at several different forms of transportation and had to determine where they traveled- land, water, or sky. Macie Jane practiced scissor skills cutting out the forms of transportation and had fun gluing them where they belonged in the sorting chart. 

The torn paper traffic light was a hit! For some strange reason preschoolers LOVE shredding up paper. I gave the girls 3 sheets of paper- red, yellow, and green. They happily tore the paper into tiny pieces and sorted them into three piles according to their color. Then using the printable as a guide they filled in the three traffic light circles with the correct colors. 

There were several more activities in the unit including a great speech/pronoun practice activity. If you want to see more you can find the full unit along with a book and resource list by clicking the button below. 

I helped Sadie review and practice using pronouns like he, she, and they. Sadie has a tendency to use the pronoun “them” when she should use “they” and doesn’t use he/she pronouns frequently or correctly. Technically this is still developmentally appropriate and nothing to be concerned over, however, I don’t believe it’s a bad thing to practice correct pronoun use either. We had fun with the activity, I reinforce it in conversation, and we’ll just watch her speech skills develop. 🙂

We wrapped up the unit with lots of giggles and fun! We got a wooden board and a few toy cars, made predictions on how fast those car would go at various heights, and tested out those predictions. Cars raced across the den and the girls had fun seeing how fast they could get the cars to go. 🙂