Transportation Math and Literacy FUN!

We're prepping for our Transportation Themed week in Kinder!  I'd love to show you some books and videos for a Transportation theme as well as some engaging stations and activities all designed around transportation!

Here are some great Transportation Read Alouds! 

Donald Crews has a whole line of simple transportation books like this one!

A classic.  The kids will love chanting "I think I can I think I can"

 This repetitive text is perfect for kinder kiddos! Read aloud then put it in a station for the kids to read with partners.  They LOVE it!

 This is a board book but who doesn't love Mo Willems and this little pigeon?!?

A fun book of sounds and lots of different kinds of transportation!

Love a good transportation video for a brain break! 

Check out some of the fun stations and activities we'll be completing around the Transportation Theme!  

We talk about how transportation has changed over time.  I show kids pictures of different modes of transportation when they were very first invented, and we compare them to the same transportation now. They LOVE to see all the old ones! 

We talk about how we use different kinds of transportation to travel by air, land, and sea.  After discussion, we sort them out and then decide what we would use to travel to different places.

We also complete transportation themed math and literacy centers!

I-Spy!  Kids use magnifying glasses to search for hidden CVC pictures! They record the words. 

 Write the room!  Students search for words hidden around the room and record them under the correct word family. 

 Choo Choo Beginning sounds!  Students look at the picture on the engine of the train and recording the missing beginning sound. 

 Ship Shape Spin.  Students use a pencil and paper cip to spin a shape.  They trace and color the shape on their recording sheet and keep going until one of the shapes reaches the top. 

 Deep Blue Counting.  Students choose a submarine card and count or use a number line to fill in the missing number (0-20)

 Counting/Skip Counting puzzles.  The kids LOVE putting the numbers in order to create some kind of transportation with these puzzles! 

And we have a themed poem for the week. We read and discuss the poem whole group and they also practice reading and complete a recording sheet during stations.

You can grab all of these activities and more in my store! :)
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APPLE Math, Literacy, and FUN! {freebie}

L-O-V-E using themes to teach in Kinder and apple week is a fan favorite for the littles. I wanted to stop by and share with you some of the books we'll be reading, videos we'll be watching, and some fun stations for Apple Week!

Love these books for apple week!  

See what kinds of items Annie can make with the apples she picks!

An apple and worm as best friends?  This cute little book is great for community building!

 LOVE counting with this book! 

Learn all about how apples grow. 

We watch videos a LOT in my classroom.  The kids love connecting with technology and videos also serve as a nice little break from the day.  Check out these fun apple videos! 

And here's a peek at some of the stations and activities we'll be working on!

All of these activities can be found in my Apples Math and Literacy pack!  Click any of the images below to check it out! 

Here's a freebie printable from the pack to use in your classroom! 

Fun with Community Helpers + Freebie!

I love teaching about Community Helpers in kinder.  It gets them thinking outside of themselves about how different people all around them are working to help others.  I also love how excited the kids get about the future -- a lot of aspiring police officers, firefighters, and [of course] teachers <3 

Here are a few really great books for teaching and learning about community helpers. 

Join Mrs. Madoff's class as families come in to share about their careers!

A rather silly book about far-fetched jobs Billy would like when he's older. 

Take a look at the tools different professions use and have your kiddos guess the job based on the tools!

Another fun guessing game book. Students will use the clothing clues to identify different jobs of community helpers!  My kiddos absolutely LOVE this book. 

There's a whole series of these books featuring all sorts of different jobs.  My kids love learning about the day-to-day of different professions.  Great for learning about exactly what each community helper does in their neighborhoods! 

We will read informational sheets about a few different community helpers then create a Can/Have/Are chart.  We will also practice fact writing! 

And here are a bunch of community helper stations we'll be completing!

  

Love this cute writing craftivity!!! 

All of these activities can be found in my Community Helper Integrated Unit! Click the image below to check it out. 

And here's a FREEBIE printable from the unit! :)