I purchased a unit plan from Teachers Pay Teachers written and developed by Tami at Teaching Preschoolers. The following activities are from this unit plan.
For our exploration with cars, we painted on paper with the wheels as inspired by a workshop I attended in the past. We also explored shaving cream with cars and raced cars outside as inspired by this site.The car race was a big hit and I had one child move the track to test out in different areas and at different angles. These activities were inspired by our look at Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus.
We also had an opportunity to race airplanes as inspired by this site. I did not include the balloon this week as I really wanted to explore angles and figuring out which angle produced the best speed. The children also figured out that pulling the string tighter produced better speed as well.
Another fun activity included a magnifying pictures game that was found here and here.
We also read the book Ron's Big Mission and looked how Ron changed an unfair rule. We also made our own rockets to go along with our story.
We took time this week to honor Dr. Seuss' birthday by reading Happy Birthday to You!, exploring with ice boats as inspired by this site, and enjoying a colorful cake.
As we have all developed a case of "Spring Fever," I added some colorful activities to the light table that were a big hit this week. One activity included lime jello crystals mixed with salt to produce a treasure hunt with paint brushes and another encouraged sorting.
We had a short week this week and will continue our look at transportation next week. The children were very involved in play this week and I wanted to add this link that describes the benefit of play in development. In this setting, play sometimes expands into other activity periods and those other activities are put on hold to visit in the future. I will leave you with a video from one of the songs from this week.
