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Tot School, year round

Tot School: Transportation

November 23, 2016

Tons of transportation themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

Are you doing a tot school transportation theme? We finally finished up our transportation themed activities this week and had a lot of fun with all the different modes of transportation we explored.

Tons of transportation themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

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Here were our plans for Transportation Week:

Tons of transportation themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, fine motor, gross motor, sensory bins, snacks and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

And here are the details of each activity:

We LOVE this vehicle sorting sensory bin. Great for a transportation theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Our favorite transportation books for the week were:

I’m Your Bus by Marilyn Singer
Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC by June Sobel
Down by the Station by Jennifer Riggs Vetter
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC by Deborah Pearson 

We had so much fun practicing our shapes with these shape roads for our transportation theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Shape Roads:

We don’t have too many cars laying around our house with 2 little girls, so I decided to pick up this set of wooden vehicles and signs from Melissa & Doug.They were perfect for Madelynn to use to trace each of the shape roads that I made for her. You can grab a set of these shape roads here:

We had so much fun practicing our letters with this alphabet fishing activity for our transportation theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Alphabet Fishing:

  To go with our boat theme activities, I decided to incorporate “fishing” as a fine motor activity.  I didn’t have Madelynn use actual fishing poles, instead I let her use any of our fine motor tools to grab as many letter bead “fish” as she could.

This sponge paint airplane craft turned out so cute and incorporated lots of fine motor practice. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Airplane Craft:

This craft started out with sponge painting a white paper blue for the sky. After the paint dried, I gave Madelynn paper shapes to make a plane and clouds and she glued them together.

This train name craftivity is fun for name writing, recognition, and fine motor practice with a dinosaur theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Build Your Name Train:

To make this train, I cut out shape pieces for Madelynn to use to build her train.  We’ve been working with her name a lot so I wrote the letters on each train car and then asked her to put them in the correct order.

We LOVE these reusable sticker scenes from Melissa & Doug for fine motor practice with a transportation theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Transportation Reusable Stickers:

  Melissa & Doug are genius I tell you. They have the best toys for my girls and their reusable sticker pads do not disappoint.  They remind me of the original Colorform sets I used to play with as a kid.  They are more of a window cling than a sticker, so they truly are reusable and won’t end up stuck all over your floor and walls. This Vehicle Reusable Sticker Pad was perfect to pull out this week.

Learning is more fun when it involves movement! This stoplight bean bag toss was an easy and fun gross motor activity for our transportation theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Stoplight Bean Bag Toss:

  This game is part gross motor, part color matching. I cut out 3 circles from red, yellow, and green colored card stock to make a stoplight.  Then I grabbed bean bags in the same colors. Madelynn and I took turns tossing the bean bags trying to get them to land on the matching color.

Learning is more fun when it involves movement! The Goldfish Song is one of our favorite movement songs. The kids think its hysterical when the goldfish ride bicycles so it went perfectly with our transportation theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Goldfish Song:

  This was a bit of a stretch to go along with our theme, but the goldfish does ride a bicycle in the song, haha.  Either way we LOVE Laurie Berkner and pull up her songs on You Tube all the time for a little dance party.  This song has lots of opportunity for movement and is great for getting the wiggles out.

Learning is more fun when it involves movement! The Airplane Song is one of our favorite movement songs and it went perfectly with our transportation theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Airplane Song:

  Another Laurie Berkner song that we love that incorporates lots of creative movement.  If you haven’t introduced Laurie Berkner’s music to your toddler yet, you have to check out her YouTube channel, SOOO many fun songs to get your little ones up and moving!

Learning is more fun when it involves movement! This follow the tracks activity was an easy and fun gross motor activity for our transportation theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Follow the Tracks:

  For this train themed movement activity, I taped out train tracks on the floor throughout our house using washi tape. Madelynn pretended to chug along the tracks fast and slow.

Learning is more fun when it involves movement! Playing red light green light with these visuals is the perfect easy and fun gross motor activity for a transportation theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

 Red Light, Green Light:

  Just like the classic game, we all played as kids, we played red light green light this week. Before we played we discussed that a red light means *STOP* and a green light means *GO*.  Then I used our card stock cut out circles as a visual reminder as I called out each command.  Madelynn loved running and freezing, and then took a turn leading the game as well.

These yummy snacks are perfect for a transportation theme in tot school, preschool, or kindergarten!

Transportation Snacks:

Graham Cracker Stop Lights – Start with graham crackers broken into 4 rectangles. Then spread peanut butter on top and place red, yellow, and green colored m&ms down the center.

Apple/Cheese Boats –  Cut up a few apple slices and balance on the peel side on a plate. Press cheese triangles onto toothpicks and stick into the apple slices for a sail.

Banana Plane w/Marshmallow Clouds – Start with a banana sliced in half the long way and place on a plate.  Add small banana slices for wings and an apple wedge for the tail.  Use Cheerios for windows and marshmallows for clouds.

Graham Cracker Build a Train – Start with 2 graham cracker rectangles, and a square for the main body of the train.  Add Wheat Chex for the smoke stack and window. Add vanilla wafer cookies for wheels, mini marshmallows for smoke, and pretzels for tracks. Cut up Tootsie Rolls for coal and place in the train car.  

PB Jelly Car with Cucumber Wheels – Cut a PB & J uncrustable in half.  Add halved cherry tomatoes for wheels, halved baby carrots for a road, and carrot/cucumber pieces for the car windows and bumpers.

We LOVE this road theme sensory bin. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Road Theme Sensory Bin:

In this bin: black beans, cut up straws, Melissa & Doug vehicles & signs
We turned this bin into more of a tray since our bin isn’t big enough to include a lot of cars. On our tray I spread out black beans, added the cut up yellow straws for the lane dividers and then let Madelynn explore with her Melissa & Doug vehicles & signs.

Water filled sensory bins are our favorite! So we LOVE this harbor theme sensory bin. Great for a transportation theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Harbor Theme Sensory Bin:

In this bin: water, blue food coloring, Magnetic Boats, bath toy fish

We LOVE this in the sky sensory bin. Great for a transportation theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

In the Air Sensory Bin:

In this bin: Blue aquarium rocks, cotton ball clouds, and airplanes from the In The Sky TOOB.

We LOVE this trains and tracks sensory bin. Great for a transportation theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Trains & Tracks Bin:

In this bin: Trains & tracks, popcorn kernels, scoops

We LOVE this vehicle sorting sensory bin. Great for a transportation theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Vehicle Sorting Bin:

In this bin: In The Sky TOOB, Melissa & Doug vehicles & signs, Magnetic Boats, white beans, sorting mats

We LOVE this magnetic towing puzzle from Melissa & Doug for fine motor practice. Great for a transportation theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Magnetic Towing:

  Okay one more Melissa and Doug Toy I love is this Magnetic towing game. (I swear I’m not being paid to promote them I just really love their stuff!) It’s basically magnet fishing and a puzzle all in one and requires lots of concentration, a great toy for building focus and the cars have numbers on them too for added number recognition practice.

Want all of this week’s Transportation activities for tot school?  You can grab them here:
On my site : Transportation Plans & Printables On TpT: Transportation Plans & Printables

Tons of transportation themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

Or you can grab our entire year of themes and plans:
On my site here: Tot School Bundle On TpT here: Tot School Bundle

45 Weeks of engaging themed activities and ideas ready to go for your 2-3 year old. Weekly plans include suggested books, fine motor activities, gross motor ideas, sensory bins, snacks and more! Everything you need for a year packed full of Tot School fun and learning.

Then check out the rest of our 35+ themes on the Tot School Curriculum Main Page.

 
 
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Bright ideas for the little learners ~ Mrs. Plemons' Kindergarten is an education blog dedicated to fresh, engaging, and fun teaching ideas for toddlers, preschoolers, and the primary classroom.

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Comments

  1. Unknown says: March 9, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    I have seen soo many blogs and I absolutely Love what you are doing! I have two little ones at home and have a home childcare, and your resources and links to products are fantastic and inexpensive 🙂 THANK YOU!

    Reply
  2. Marsha Bowman says: July 25, 2017 at 1:07 am

    Could you upload the rest of the Tot School themes to the teachers pay teachers website? There's only 6 uploaded and I wanted to purchase the rest of them. They're really awesome!

    Reply
  3. Jessica Plemons says: July 25, 2017 at 1:13 am

    Hello! Thanks so much for your kind words! I am working on compiling all of my tot school weekly plans and resources for purchase. I am working from the beginning of the year to the end. You can find them all here http://bit.ly/MPKTotSchoolBundle

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  4. dgoentzel says: March 9, 2018 at 4:33 pm

    How do I print the road shapes.

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    • jessica says: April 5, 2018 at 3:46 pm

      also having difficulty finding a link to print the road shape
      thanks

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    • Jessica says: April 12, 2018 at 7:18 pm

      So sorry, I was having some work done on my blog and didn’t realize that the form did not transfer over. The form to sign up for the free printables is now fixed, if you have any more trouble please let me know!

      Reply
  5. Meghan says: April 11, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    Hello! I love using your activities in my toddler room. I would love to use the road shapes in my transportation unit next week, but how can I get the freebie? Thanks in advance!

    Reply
    • Jessica says: April 12, 2018 at 7:18 pm

      So sorry, I was having some work done on my blog and didn’t realize that the form did not transfer over. The form to sign up for the free printables is now fixed, if you have any more trouble please let me know!

      Reply
      • Meghan says: April 12, 2018 at 7:21 pm

        I am already subscribed, so how do I get the freebie now?

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        • Jessica says: April 12, 2018 at 7:23 pm

          You should be able to fill out the form again and receive the link to the freebie. It will not double subscribe you. If for some reason that does not work, please email me at jessica @mrsplemonskindergarten.com.

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