Transportation Preschool Theme
(Updated 10/2023)
This week is all about transportation!! As always I went to the library and picked up a few books that interested me to go along with the theme. I have activities here for both my 4 & 2 year old. Hope you get some good ideas if you are doing a transportation theme as well. If you are following along please tag me on Instagram so that I can see what you’re doing!!
Books Ideas for Transportation Theme: The Little Engine That Could – Watty Piper; The Airport Book – Lisa Brown
| M | T | W | Th | F | |
| Religion | Fingerpaint Noahs Obeys God Worksheet, noah wreath | Put animal stickers on Noah Gathers Animals Worksheet | Use noah stamps on Noahs Ark worksheet and glue blue tissue paper for water | Use primary colors to paint a rainbow, add cotton balls for clouds | Noahs ark sequencing |
| Language (2) | Letter S dot work | Transportation flash cards | Letter S matching | Transportation pages from Prewriting book (example) | Bus dot work |
| Language (4) | Black sand tray, cut up yellow straw for road – choose 5 sight words to practice | Cvc word practice & Review sight words | Cvc word practice & Review sight words | CVC dot its & Review Sight words | Bus Color by sight word |
| Math (2) | Five little ducks from previous weeks, order 0-2 | Pom-pom egg carton color matching game (math bin) add cardboard wings to make it a plane – 2 of each pom | Stoplight bean bag toss (color matching) | Make tape ‘roads’ in shapes to drive cars on | Counting practice |
| Math (4) | Train teen roll & cover | Bike word problem | Train domino adding | Parking Lot Game | Baggage counting with math beads |
| Art/Sensory | Play with train set | Cutting & gluing practice | Road sensory bin: black beans, penne noodles or cut yellow straw, cars | Boats & fish in bathtub (can dye water blue for fun) | Truck painting |
| Science/ Geography/ History | Land, Air, Water sorting | Reading a map (cardinal directions, key, roads etc..) & Transportation busy book page for 2yr | Make paper airplanes | Ramp experimenting | Look at flags of countries you can fly to |
Most religion worksheets are from ABCJesus
Truck painting: roll the wheels of trucks in paint and vroom them on paper to make a fun art piece
Ramp experimenting: Build some block ramps and experiment with incline, velocity & friction
Other ideas I like: Transportation shape collage & Duplo control tower measuring
2023 Transportation Theme Plan
Religion focus: Learn the Our Father
2YR Old Options: Transportation flashcards, Vehicle Puzzle, Transportation dot work, pop-pom egg carton color matching game with cardboard wings to make it a plane, Toddler puzzles, Transportation matching
| Language | Introduce C, T & B; sandpaper tracing & black sand tray with yellow straw for road | C – Car Letter parking lot game (Use C, T, B, S, A, M & letters of name) | B – Boat Letter matching roads (use C, T, B; can use S, A, M if wanting more) | T – Train Airplane wing case matching* |
| Math | Reintroduce 7 & Number matching | Number Parking Lot Game | Transportation 10 frames (I will turn the 9 into a 6) | Train Sequencing* |
| Art/Sensory | Cutting & gluing practice | Make large circles out of construction paper in red, yellow & green. Throw red, yellow & green bean bags to the respective stoplight color. | Boats & fish in bathtub (can dye water blue for fun) | Dip the wheels of a truck in paint and roll them over paper to create a fun piece of art. Can try this with multiple vehicle types. |
| S/G/H | Land, Air, Water Sorting | Make different ramps with blocks and experiment with cars – can talk about speed, velocity & friction | Learning how to read a map – cardinal directions, key, roads etc… | Talk about road safety: Wearing seatbelt, crossing the street, passing driveways etc… |
Airplane wing case matching – Cut out an airplane body out of cardboard. Label clothespins with uppercase and lowercase letters C, B, T, S, A, M (can do letters of first & last name too for more). Have the child pick an uppercase clothespin and put it on one side of the airplane body for a wing, then find the corresponding lowercase clothespin to match for the other wing.
Train Sequencing – Put stickers labeled 1-7 on 7 trains. Have your child order them, then give each train the corresponding number of math beads.