Take your transportation activities for preschool to the land, sea, or sky with hands-on literacy centers! Race through letters, sounds, & syllables!

Practice beginning sounds with these FREE transportation clip it cards. Just look, sound out the word and choose the letter!

Yay! I'm super excited to have Away We Go! preschool activities and party printables up on my website. Enjoy Away We Go! story-time with your little ones, followed by fun shapes and transportation projects. Check out the coloring, cut and paste, counting, and matching activities. Print the activities and party printables to your heart's content. If you have an Away We Go! celebration, please do share! Great fun for birthdays, baby showers, transportation, and preschool events. How about snack time?! Here's a template I created for a tasty shape-sorting activity. Be sure to lay down wax paper over the printable before beginning. Strawberries make good heart shapes, and these stars are baby cereal puffs. I also spotted some star-shaped crackers at the grocery store. These shapely fruit rockets were a big hit with my kids! Don't forget the crafts! Candy airplanes are cute, and very easy to make. The shapes highlighted here are circles, rectangles, and squares. A cool summer craft that really floats! Using foam sheets, cut out a 2 3/4" x 4" rectangle, and a triangle sail. Cut 7 slits, each a centimeter apart, as seen in the photo. Be careful not to cut too close to the edge. Have your little sailors weave three crafts sticks (4 3/8" long), and attach the triangle sail. Let kids be creative, gluing shapes together to make colorful, shapely transportation vehicles. Here are samples of a spaceship, ice cream truck, and train. I'm reposting the Away We Go! treats. Check out my Book Launch Celebration blog post for details. Have a shapetastic time reading Away We Go! with the kiddos, and getting creative with shapes and transportation!

Fine motor activity to strengthen small hand muscles. Use imaginary play to encourage your toddler or preschooler to explore using tweezers.

Anyone else feel SO busy this time of year? The holidays are just around the corner.. and so are report cords and assessments out the wazoo! Sorry I've been MIA but I'm dropping in for a little Five for Friday action. Oops sorry... it's Saturday. I'm doing my best here... 1. Theme for the last few weeks has been transportation. I'm not sure on the original source of this song (if it's yours... please claim it!) The kids loved it and it was a nice way to wrap up our theme! 2. We are also wrapping up our comparing numbers unit. We made this interactive reader to show what we know! P.S. I love using interactive readers for math. Cross-Curricular for the win! This is a part of my Comparing Numbers in Kinder Unit! 3. As Report Card season approaches... I have one piece of advice. GET THESE PENS! They are amazing. The case props up in a fancy, grab any pen you want, kind of way. They don't bleed through and they DON'T dry out! I use them to color code my gradebook since there are so many assessments to keep track of. 4. My kids are really starting to work hard on reading and writing CVC words so we're diving into my Short Vowels CVC packet! A fan favorite is the Mystery Picture. You can pick up a freebie below for Short Vowel A. The pack itself comes with 8 activities for each of the vowels. 5. Lastly, we're doing a book study at my school and we're reading the most eye-opening book. I had to share!!! If you teach in a poverty-stricken district or school... this is a must read! I'm learning so much and already make shifts and changes to my teaching that are so beneficial! Oh and P.S. keep your eyes peeled today for a new product. I will be posting my Christmas Math Centers today (discounted for the first two days!) They are Christmas themed and I know that doesn't suit everyone's need, but I love Christmas so much and couldn't pass up the adorable clipart! :)

Fun Game to Learn the Numbers: Numbers Car Wash - With a Spanish variation that is just as fun!

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So this week, the Pre-K class is going to Europe. In our imaginations, anyway. Several years ago I made an "airplane" out of a box. It's really just the sides of one, but it works just fine. I dug it out of storage and it's a little bent up, but it still serves it's purpose. So it's made out of a normal cardboard box, but then I covered it in gray paper and used black construction paper for the nose and windows. I made a slit for the wing to go into, but it still needed a little tape to stay up. And I also printed out "Pre-K Airlines" on gray paper and glued it to the plane. I made 2 of these and put 4 chairs in between them to make the seats on the plane. The sides of the plane are just leaning against the chairs. It's that simple! Then I made a pilot hat out of a McDonald's hat that we already have, put in a suitcase, and put a beach ball globe nearby. The kids can look at the globe to find out where they want to go and fly away... (The kids were in their swimsuits because we were going out into the sprinkler later, so that's why it looks like they hardly have any clothes on!)

Kids LOVE play dough. Kids LOVE transport toys. So why not create a learning activity that can use both? That was my thinking when I was mulling over a new activity for learning CVCs (3-letter words such as dog and cat). Since I was focused on transport I decided I’d use ‘go’ and ‘stop’ signs to [...]

Rhyming. It’s a very important skill that younger kids need to help them learn to read and spell. But rhyming is effective with older readers, too! Poetry is a great place to start, as there are so many ways you can use it. *This post contains affiliate links. Poetry and rhyming books with a touch ... Read More about Poetry and Rhyming Books for Older Readers

Create your own animal mobiles using stamped paper and yarn.

The following board game will help your students revise vocabulary related to transportation. Students throw the die and need to say the name of the job. Hope it's useful! - ESL worksheets

Do you have a kid who loves cars? These transportation theme preschool activities will be a sure hit! My daughter loves everything that moves, so she had a blast with these four preschool transportation theme activities that use stickers. She loves peeling the backing and sticking them in place. (Which is also a great way to build fine motor muscles.) I have also included some great preschool transportation theme printables at the end of the post for even more fun and learning!

Since a transportation theme in PreK is such a large topic, we usually spread it over two weeks. Transportation Question of the Day As always I started each day with our Question of the Day. Around this time of the year I change the student name tags to last names so that they can start

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This rocket craft for kids comes with a free printable template and a fun technique. Pair it with one of the suggested picture books about rockets.

Enjoy 14 tot trays for a Montessori inspired transportation unit.

I cannot, cannot believe this school year is almost over (unless you are one of the lucky ones and your year is already over!!). I teach at a year round school, I still have four more weeks and then one week later my new school year starts!! How do you celebrate the end of kindergarten??? We have lots of fun activities planned and only a short four weeks to finish them all! I updated my Memory Book and Certificates! You can check them out below :)

This food mapping activity combines lessons on our food system with world geography, helping show kids where our food comes from.

This poster set features the 10 IB PYP Attributes of the Learner Profile. Each poster includes the attribute, an associated explanation statement, and an image to help your students interpret and remember the attributes of the learner profile. These visuals can be used to promote emphasis on using d...

Here's a collection of Transportation Songs we use in the classroom during a Transportation Theme. Includes songs for traffic lights, cars, airplanes,

Easy recipes the family will love. You'll find simple comfort food that doesn't take lots of time to cook. Also recipes for kids to make and kids activities.

I had this entire blog post written once – Windows Live Writer crashed on me and I had to start all over again! I hear my husband saying, “Did you save?” Yep, he’s right again. Next time, I’ll save. We did our unit on transportation a couple of weeks ago. I was gone for a 2 days that week for curriculum meetings and IEP/Transition meetings, so needless to say, it was a wild week! I am so behind on blog posts too – seeds and plants, April Fool’s….I hope to squeeze them in sometime, but my plate is overflowing right now while I am finishing up my last 3 weeks of grad school. I can NOT wait until May, when I do not have to write any more papers! So, here is our unit: We started off the week reading this book: In this book, the mom wants to go to the beach, but her car breaks down. She needs to find another way to get to the beach, but with each way that she finds, she has to leave 1 of 5 things behind. The children have to guess which thing she has to leave behind. We made a flow map to sequence the events {and cause and effect} of the story. I forgot to take a picture of this – sorry! The kids loved this fun rhyming book! The teacher (whose car breaks down!) is late for school – he has a rule to NEVER, EVER be late for school. He tries many different ways to get to school. Of course, he ends up being late, and has to change his rule. Super cute. We read two books for our Scott Foresman reading series. These were the days that I was gone, so nothing to exciting to report with these books! The children wrote about different types of transportation and the ways they come to school. Our last book of the week was my favorite! The kids loved this book, and the illustrations are fantastic! When we finished reading, we brainstormed a list of all of the items that the boy put on or in his car. Then the creativity happened – the children got to dream up their own car! I loved their creativity! LOVE the fairy car! You can download this sheet here. We also read Hot Air Henry and wrote about a balloon adventure we might have. I got the balloon idea from a friend a few years ago, and it’s one of my favorite ideas! The kids love designing their balloon, and their writing is so fun to read! At this point in the year, they are such amazing writers, some kids will write 3-4 pages!!{It might be hard to see from the picture, but the kids’ pictures are inside of the baskets! We also made a fantastic transportation mural! We brainstormed a big list of all the different types of transportation – on land, on water, and on air, and then put it on a tree map. The kids chose the type of transportation that they wanted to make for our mural and they made it all on their own. No patterns. I love this kind of art! So fun! They also made pipe cleaner people and glued their pictures on as well as labels for their vehicle. These are some fun stoplights that our head start class made. They used caro syrup to make the stoplight colors! They always look so pretty hanging up, but I’m afraid to attempt this in Kindergarten – not enough helpers! I can just imagine the mess! {Math and Literacy Centers} I love Julie Lee over at Mrs. Lee’s Kindergarten! Some of these centers came from her – make sure you head on over and check out her blog! This idea came from Julie – I added a few more steps on it to meet the needs of my class – the kids love it! The kids matched trains and wagons to find the correct time and write it on their recording sheet. This center was challenging for some of my kiddos. For the harder coin combinations, I added money stickers to the back of the airplane so they could take a peek if they needed to. In this center the kids measured with standard and non-standard units. This idea came from Julie – the kids pick a car, listen for the sound that is on the car, and write it on the correct traffic light. I also had them stretch out the words and write them. Boating for Blends – the kids wrote the word with the correct blend. They stamped the missing letters. Practice with silent e. At this center the kids matched the sight word truck with the color word and then stamped the sight word. You can download these centers {here}, {here}, {here}, {here}, and {here}. If you choose to download these documents, please leave a note to let me know that you did as well as publicly follow my blog. Thanks for your support!