Thursday 17th September 2020 – Braidbar Nursery Blog

Goedemorgen!

Today the transport theme continues!

A. Vehicles are used to move people and things from one place to another. Sometimes slowly, like on ships in the sea and other times really fast, like in police cars! A story which has lots of different vehicles in it is Dig, Dig, Digging by Margaret Mayo. It describes how different vehicles move and what their purpose is. You can listen to the story and song on the link below:

What did you think? Thumbs up? How many different vehicles did you count? Which was your favourite? Can you think of any other types of vehicles which weren’t in the story?

B. Find out more about diggers and excavators in this video. Could you do your own excavating in the garden or sand pit?

C. Why don’t you look through your books and count how many are about different forms of transport and vehicles? Perhaps you could sort them into groups like fiction/non-fiction (stories/information) or about cars/not about cars.

D. Continue the sorting and grouping using different criteria. Try to encourage your child to sort them in their own way and then discuss different criteria they might consider.

Provide a large assortment of transportation themed items and some bowls/trays. Encourage your child to sort by the different features of the vehicles. Some ideas are to sort by:

Land, Sky and Water vehicles

Items with wheels and without wheels

With wings and without wings

By colour or size

E. What do you know about hot air balloons? Watch this video to find out more, listening for interesting words.

Would you like to see a hot air balloon up close or even travel in one? How do you think it would feel, rising into the sky?

F. Here is a balloon experiment you might like to try.

Materials needed: Small plastic bottle, 1 tablespoon of sugar, water, 1 packet of yeast, one small round balloon.

Put sugar into bottle.

Fill 1/3 of the way with water.
Add the packet of yeast.
Mix (lightly shake until mixed).
Cover bottle with the balloon.
Watch bottle over the next 1/2 hour.

Note: The yeast consumes the sugar and then creates carbon dioxide gas which fills the balloon!

G. Why don’t you take all your toy vehicles outside and give them a wash? Perhaps you could tidy/sort/wash some other toys too.

H. Take some of your toy cars and stick numbers on top of them from 1-10.

See if you can recognise them and put them in order. Can you start form a number other than 1? Can you line then up counting BACKWARDS? Can you hide one and work out what the missing number is? Maybe you could make a cardboard box garage and park them all in the correct space.