Dzien dobry! Today is Wednesday and we have play and learning ideas based on some of the children’s recent interests in transport and vehicles.
We have thoroughly enjoyed connecting with some of you on our Team and would be delighted to see more of what you are all doing in our time apart. The adults in nursery miss reading you stories and there are some story videos they have made on our Team too.
Here are today’s suggestions:
A. Leading on from pirate ships, here are other vehicles that travel on water and have a very important job. Lifeboats and Hovercrafts.
What do they do? How do they travel? Have you seen a lifeboat at sea? What facts can you find by watching and listening carefully?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt56bYtg_Uc
B. Why don’t you take a closer look at the family car? Can you name and identify the different parts? What shapes do you see when you look at the wheels, for example? Can you identify any letters or numbers on the licence plate? Maybe your adult can open the bonnet and let you look inside. What interesting things are under there that make the car move and do other jobs like keep the windscreen clean? Have you learned any new words for parts of a car an what they do?
C. Why don’t you help an adult by tidying inside and washing the outside of the car?
D. Look at the tyres on different cars. Are they the same or different? If you are out walking, or maybe from your window or front garden, how many different cars can you spot? How many red/silver/blue? How many vans or lorries? Maybe you could find a way to record what you see.
E. What about trains? Can you identify and continue shape patterns on this game?
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
F. While spending time in the little garden the boys and girls were learning how to make paper aeroplanes. ✈
We talked about planes and other kinds of transport that can fly through the air.
Airplanes ✈ & Space Rockets 🚀 were very popular!
Here is a song about rocket ships:
Zoom, zoom, zoom,
We’re going to the moon!
Zoom, zoom, zoom,
We’ll be there very soon.
If you want to take a trip,
Climb on board my rocket ship.
Zoom, zoom, zoom,
We’re going to the moon!
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G. Why don’t you use your imagination and materials of your choice – paper, card, Lego, recycling items, playdough – to create a fantastic vehicle? It might be a plane, rocket, ship, car, helicopter or a hybrid that can do a few really cool things…
H. Where will your vehicle travel? Can you build a road or track for them? Maybe you could make a ramp using a cardboard box or other junk materials and test out how toy cars and trucks make it down. Does the speed change if you make the ramp higher or lower?
Maybe you could create a whole landscape like a lunar one for the rockets to launch from. You could use some bubbles, shaving foam, rice or sand to make an interesting landscape.
I. Here’s a story to finish today. Can you spot the pairs of rhyming words?
