Some More With Things That GO!

Next we focused on cars and  trucks and trains in our learning about things that go!

Transportation Graph - "I have been in a..." - The kiddos and I graphed which modes of transportation we have been on.

Little Van Goes - My hubby still has this from his childhood, so I pulled it out for the kiddos to work with this week.  They have loved it!

 

Tp Racers - The kiddos painted tp rolls and I put on the wheels.  They enjoyed racing these around.  I think next time I should cut a hole in the top so a fisher price person could fit inside.

Egg Carton Trains - In theory the kiddos were to lace the egg carton cups onto a pipe cleaner and then we were to create an engine for their train, complete with smoke (cotton balls) coming out of the smoke stack.  Ha ha, well, things didn't go quite as planned.  But the kiddos had fun.

Cars and Crayons - I have some old perforated paper that worked great for this idea.  I tore off several connected sheets of paper for each kiddo and set out the crayons and we got to work designing our own roads to drive on.  We interconnected our finished roads so we could drive on each others.

 I suggested to the kiddos to add trees and buildings or houses to their roads.  One of the kiddos added our preschool and then as classmates were driving over to pick up their child from preschool, she drew the kiddos in her preschool.  Ha!

Cereal Box Ramp -  Such a great easy thing to create.  The kiddos loved it all week long.

 

Snack - Edible Cars - The older kiddos got to create their own cars, I made them for the younger kiddos.  We even had a Cheez-it road.

 Once the kiddos had eaten their cars, they enjoyed eating the rest of their snack off of their toothpicks.  Ha.

The Great Rolling Experiment - We decided to test a few things around the classroom to see what would roll on a ramp and what would not. Before we released each item, we made a prediction:  would it roll or stick? 

 We quickly realized that our ramp was too steep and that everything either rolled or slid down.  So we moved our ramp a bit lower and tried again... 

 With the lowered ramp we ended up with 3 categories:  Roll, slide, and stick!

 Here are our three piles after our experiment.

Car Blowers - We wanted to see if we could blow a car across the table....we found we could with a bit of help.

 Party blowers are very great at pushing/blowing cars!

Airplane Food - The kiddos found a stack of styrafoam egg cartons that a mom had brought in and decided to use them as food trays on their airplane.  Ha!  One of the kiddos, using an empty spice container, was offering everyone pepper for their food.

Transportation Sort - The kiddos and I decided on three main categories:  sky, water, and the road.  Then the kiddos sorted their stickers accordingly.  I found these stickers at the dollar store.

Video:  Trashy Town - This is a cute book about a trash man's day at work.  I don't have the book, but I do have the video.  So first we watched it... 

  

Then we made our own trash trucks.