Make your preschool transportation theme the best one yet with these adorable transportation worksheets and activities.
Need some ideas for transportation centers and activities? I'm here to help! I'm sharing my favorite, most engaging transportation-themed activities with you. I also created Road Number Mats FREEBIE for you, too! AND a train name craftivity FREEBIE! Go grab your lesson plan book and get ready to be inspired!
Vehicles are a fun topic for preschoolers, so it makes sense to use these vehicles and transportation pattern block printables to enrich their learning with a theme they’ll love! Pattern blocks are not just ordinary shapes; they are versatile tools that foster a range of essential skills in preschoolers. From fine motor skills to early...
Free printable transportation playdough mats for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids. Add them to your transportation lesson plans.
Here is a fun preschool transportation theme set of pattern blocks activities that are fun for learning through play for kids!
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
These transportation dot marker pages are an easy low prep activity to set up for toddlers and preschoolers. They are super fun without the mess of normal paints.
It is time for our transportation unit in kindergarten! What are different ways of going places? We started our investigation by asking this question. We made a really basic KWL chart to record what we already knew about transportation and what questions we have. Our questions were great! How are cars made? Why do people ride buses? What is the thing called that people fly on that has a parachute and a fan? (I had to look that one up!) and Why do people use horses for travel? I will use those questions to guide what we are learning about over the next couple of weeks. Here is an a example of what our chart looks like. Our next big activity will be sorting types of transportation into land travel, water travel, and air travel. We started by handing each student a card with a picture of a form of transportation on it. The students sorted themselves into groups that go together. It took them some time to figure out that they had objects that traveled on land, water, or in the air but once they started getting it the groups came together quickly. We did this as our activity piece during morning meeting. Then we put them on an anchor chart to use later in the day. The cards can be used later in a center as an additional sorting or writing activity too. I love having real pictures for students to use instead of just clip art. The book that we are using from our reading series this week (Reading Street) is Max Takes the Train by Rosemary Wells. I love Max and Ruby! They take me back to when my kids were little and they loved the TV show so this is one of my favorite stories to read to my kindergarten students. We discuss all the different ways that Max travels throughout the book and if his choice of travel really makes sense. Would you take a plane to the ice cream parlor? I made a fun activity for this one too. Each student gets a travel card with a clothes pin attached. Name a place in the world (near or far) and they answer with the card how they will get there. With this one I focus on: travel on my own (walk), travel by non-motorized vehicle (bike or skateboard), travel by land (car, train, or bus), travel by air (plane or helicopter), and travel by water (boat or ship). Modes of transport are the key here. After we did this activity together the students went to Writer's Workshop with a prompt (we don't usually do prompts, but this was special) We posed the question, "If I was going to ________, I would take a _________" Their responses were really cute! If I was going to my grandma's I would take a car. I provided the students with the sentence stems, but you can see that they didn't all use them. I prefer the inventive spelling that this student used. He is totally independent when it comes to writing! If I was going to my friends I would take a scooter. On the flip side, this student did use the sentence stems and it supported him enough that he completed the assignment. This is huge for him! If left to his own devices he will sit and destroy the paper rather than writing anything so I was super impressed when he wrote this all on his own! If I was going to the library I would take a motorcycle. This student is a high flyer but doesn't always elaborate when writing. He is happy to write 3 words for a sentence and get moving on to the next thing. He took a lot of time today and even used bigger words like library and motorcycle. All in all this activity was a good fit for any level of student! Another fun book to read about getting places is How Will We Get to the Beach by Brigitte Luciani. In the book Roxanne tries to go to the beach in many different forms of transportation but they are never quite right. I created some retell cards for this one so we can retell the story afterwards. After we do the retell together we will do a cut and glue retell page all together. My students really enjoy those. To add in a little STEM fun I bought the book If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen. The illustrations are fantastic and I think students will really love this activity! After reading the book students will plan out a car and then draw it. I have a page ready for a final copy so they can just draw their car but I am thinking I want to let them create the car out of old junk. Am I crazy? I'm thinking yes but I'm still going to give it a try! The last idea I have to share today I'm probably the most excited about! We have turned our classroom window into a transportation display. Students are creating different vehicles at our Fun Friday craft station and they decide where they go on the board. They are so fun! To see the whole unit click HERE to preview it in my TPT store. I created some templates for vehicles to get you started but to be honest I just set out some old crafting paper and let them create on their own. You can get the templates FREE here. Transportation will be our theme for the next 6 weeks as we work through Reading Street Unit 5. I will be using their questions to guide that instruction as we move through this unit. Here are a list of books we plan on using during this time. They are all great jumping off points for more questions and inquiries! These are Amazon affiliate links which means if you buy through this link I receive a small amount. Thanks for supporting my blog! To top off our unit I also created some literacy stations that have a transportation theme too to replace my Valentine themed stuff that is still hanging out there. February is a weird month because the first 2 weeks are all pink and red and hearts and then the last half is just "Please help me get to spring break" mode. These will help fill the gap. I focused on digraphs and blends, sights words (40 words introduced in Reading Street for Kindergarten), alphabet recognition, word families and nonsense word fluency. I will add in some hot wheel cars, letter magnets, and other manipulatives to make these as hands on as possible. You can click HERE to see them in my store. Wow! That was a lot! We have plenty of activities to use the next 6 weeks or so! Thanks for stopping by today! What to save this post for later?
Transportation arts and crafts for kids. 60 transport themed kids art ideas for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners.
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. Here were our plans for Transportation Week: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite transportation books for the week […]
Transportation is a big theme in our family right now. Since we just moved into the RV that we are supposed to be living in for the next two years and we've just started our nationwide travels, we've been checking out all the different vehicles that we pass on the roads. So I've made a series of Transportation Theme Free Printables that I will be sharing over the next few blog posts. Be sure to check back to get the rest!
FREE Transportation activities for preschoolers featuring cars, trucks, trains, boats and other vehicles. Activities include matching, patterns, sorting by air, land, water, and sorting by syllables.
Transport lacing cards - fun fine motor activities for kids. Perfect to help toddlers and preschoolers develop fine motor skills for free.
This exciting gross-motor transportation game for preschoolers is a great way to work off some energy, learn about forms of transportation and just simply have a blast! Shiloh wanted to play for hours & I'm sure your kids will love it too! We're doing a transportation theme this week, so be sure to check out all the other great activities at the bottom of this post!
Turn your pretend center into an auto shop dramatic play area for your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
Make your preschool transportation theme the best one yet with these adorable transportation worksheets and activities.
Make movement fun with FREE Movement Cards! Get them in the Pink Oatmeal Freebie Library! Adding physical activity to the day is a must for learning. Instead of the same boring activities use the movement cards to easily integrate movement into your different themes or for brain breaks and kinesthetic learning! Start adding more movement […]
Here is a Transportation Theme Free Printable that is so much fun for learning through play for toddlers and for preschoolers!
Free, printable preschool transportation theme worksheets. Transport theme coloring pages, book for kids to make, size and cutting worksheets
Your kids can easily launch these fun free printable rockets with a simple straw. Lots of ideas for science and STEM learning are included. Kids will have a blast creating and launching their own
Do you teach a Community Helpers Preschool or Kindergarten Unit? You will LOVE this fun set of pretend play learning centers and no prep worksheets.
Take your dramatic play center to new heights with this airport dramatic play! Find new ideas for setting up your airplane, security check, & check-in!
This bulldozer craft is super easy to prepare and to make! Make enough for the classroom, preschool, or daycare in just about 10 minutes
Transportation gross motor ideas. Perfect for your transportation themed units or for those that love anything transportation. Free Printable Cards.
These new pattern block mats include an airplane, train, car, boat, and space shuttle to go with your Transportation theme. Children use these mats
Make your preschool transportation theme the best one yet with these adorable transportation worksheets and activities.
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Preschoolers LOVE playing with all kinds of vehicles. Cars, trains, and airplanes oh my! Madelynn is no exception so we spent this week playing with all kinds of vehicles and I made sure to weave in lots of fun ways to learn all week long. Here were our plans for our Transportation theme: And here […]
FUN shape activity for preschoolers using printable road shape mats and hotwheels for learning shapes with a car activity for toddlers.
Looking for a transportation themed preschool lesson plan? Check out these free plans with a week's worth of tranportation themed crafts and activities! It's all done for you and free to print!
CUTE printable Construction Worksheests make practicing counting, matching upper and lowercase alphabet letters, and more FUN!
Looking for a fun Preschool Construction Theme for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Construction Learning Activities for Preschool or Kindergarten.
These free vehicle dot marker printables are a fun, no-prep activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Make them no-mess with round stickers!
