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Activity Ideas for We All Go Traveling By

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Hop aboard the yellow school bus as it makes its way through town. Different modes of transportation are each paired with a color in this educational and fun selection. Book with CD editions include song sung by acclaimed children's performer Fred Penner. Ages 3 to 7 years Written By: Sheena Roberts Illustrated By: Siobhan Bell Sung By: Fred Penner

Enjoy this fun book and catchy accompanying song, together with these fun preschool activities.

Read the Book Practice reading the book. This way you can gather props or puppets and think of questions to ask the children or prompts to involve them in the story.

Transition into story time. Use a transition to move children from activities to group story time. We use music to signal group time.

Set the stage for story time. Make sure everyone has a space to sit, can see the book and consider using something to capture the children’s interest, such as a train hat.

Use expression while reading. Change your voice to match the character or body langue while reading.

Take your time. Slow down your pace to allow the children to form a mental picture in the story.

Show the pictures. The pictures help the children to understand the story and predict what will happen next. Occasionally run your fingers under the text. This helps the children understand that it’s the words, not the pictures that are read. Involve the children in the story. Pause and wait so the children can join in a predictable phrase or complete a sentence Example: In this book, they can say “I spy with my little eye” while making a spy glass with their hand around their eye, “I can hear with my little ear…” while cupping their ear. Remember to ask thinking questions! Example: Where do you think they are all going? What sound does the train make?

Showcase the book after reading. Display the book so the children can re-read it later. Add props for storytelling.

Props: I copied & laminated the picture cards in the back of the book. Each time the vehicle is mentioned in the book, the child can hold up their vehicle. Attach a piece of Velcro to the back and the pictures can also be used on the felt board for retelling the story.

Literacy We All Go Traveling By incorporates repetition in the story, strengthening phonological awareness.

Review in the back of the book: each vehicle picture using descriptive words. What color is the bus? What sound does it make? In the writing center, post pictures of each vehicle with printed names underneath each.

Fine Motor Skills Provide printed words for letter tracing. {see accompanying printable page} Writing Activity I would like to travel to school by…. {see accompanying printable page} Sign Language

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Art We All Go Traveling By focuses on colors: yellow, red, blue, white, pink, orange, green and purple.

Allow the children to choose a color to paint with. Paint with cars, making track marks

Make a traffic light out of a 3-section egg carton: Paint each section: green, yellow, red. Attach a string for hanging or a craft stick to the bottom.

Transportation in the Air! Materials Needed: Blue paper, cotton balls or pom-poms, clothes pins, white and gray paint (Preschool Plan-it) Paint the sky & draw an airplane or cut out an airplane shape to glue on.

Games & Activities

Free File Folder Games from Filefolderheaven.com Transportation Match File Folder Game, G

is for Go Sort and Counting Cars File Folder Game

Water/Air/Land Sort, and Cars/Trucks and Plane Sorting Mats

Play Ideas Make a car mat or masking tape roads on

the carpet Build a city with blocks & toys (Childhood

101) Hot Wheels & track Train table Make cardboard box cars (Crafts & Things) Make a ramp in the block area

Outdoor Play/Large Motor Draw a road with chalk to ride bikes on Car & bike wash Play “Red Light, Green Light” Make a boat out of a cardboard box.

Everyone can help paint it.

Dramatic Play School bus Airplane Train station

Provide props: Chairs, suitcases, back packs, tickets, a store to purchase tickets, hole- punch for punching tickets, hats, uniforms, dress up clothes, dolls, whistle or bell. Also maps and travel brochures encourage imaginative play.

Science & Sensory Sink or float? Activity Rocket launch Play I Spy involving the senses: sight &

hearing. Make discovery bottles. (Kinder Friends)

Cars in play dough, sand, dirt, Insta-Snow

Boats in the water table

Fingerplays & Rhymes Train Fingerplay (Pre-Kinders) Windshield Wiper Fingerplay (Pre-Kinders)

Music & Movement Sing along with the CD! The song is really catchy and fun.

Movement: Bus: push the horn, truck: bounce, as in a rough ride, Train: chugging motion with arms, Bike: ringing a bell motion or bike pedal with legs, boat: rolling, rocking of the water motion, plane: flying with arms out, car: drive/run fast, bell: ring a bell motion

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