Early Years : Kindergarten Blog, April 23: A Thrilling Transportation Adventure!

Beep! Beep! This week has been a thrilling ride for the Kindergarteners.

The Blue Team was very artistic this week. They made the toothbrush painting of different forms of transportation with lots of patience.

Also you can see that the "Blue Team City" map is growing and gets bigger and bigger everyday. Now, we have a police station, fire station, train station and 2 airports on the map! Everybody enjoys adding new places.

The Yellow Team also had a week full of creative explorations! They learned about signs and its importance in providing us information, keeeping us safe, and showing us the right directions. The children have started adding traffic signs to the diorama that they have been building to make the flow of traffic organized!

Aside from this, the Yellow Team also came up with a list of signs that they feel are important to have in our classroom. They created stops signs, no climbing signs, and signs that remind them to play nicely with each other.

Since we have been learning about roads, the children also pretended to be engineers for a day and designed their own roads to help them get from one place to another. They also designed their own land transportation that’s powered by a magnet to travel through their roads.

We also started inquiring into land and water transportation.

The children learned about the different parts of a plane: the fuselage, wings, landing gear, and stabilizer. They used this information to create their own paper airplane that would fly and glide well. They experimented with several flights and tweaked their designs based on what they think would make their plane fly better.

The children also created a boat using old egg cartons as an artwork that will be added to our transportation diorama in the classroom, as well as fingerprint versions of different forms of transportation!