Read to Me – Transportation Theme Books

We just finished up 2 weeks of transportation themed activities, here are the books that we read during these two weeks:

Trucks by Fiona Watt- We bought this book quite awhile ago, and it has been one of Lucas' favourites ever since! The text is short and simple, perfect for a two year old that doesn't like to sit still! Each page has its own truck with multiple textures to feel, also each page has background images, and or animals to touch and feel which is great for expanding the story and learning even further!

Alphabeep by Deborah Pearson- I loved this book! I thought the rhyming text was sweet, and the pictures were bright, bold, and engaging! Both of the boys enjoyed this book as well, it was a little difficult for Lucas to sit still for the whole book but he loved seeing all the different vehicles, and he chose this book several times throughout the week!

My Car by Byron Barton– This is a terrific book for any little boy who loves cars, Lucas wanted to read it over and over again! Once again this was a book with very simple text  “I am Sam – This is my car.”  Throughout the book Sam talks about his car and its parts, and how he cares for his car… I later used this while playing cars with Lucas – we pretended to fill our cars with gas, and change the oil, use our headlights and so on… at the end of the book Sam drives his car to work – where he is a bus driver! Lucas loves that part!

Fire Truck By Peter Sis – Neither Dominic, Lucas or I like this book. It was written by a father for his son who loves fire trucks, I can imagine some kids may enjoy this book… but I found the pictures were boring, and the text had no rhythm or story value to it.

How will you get there maisy? by Lucy Cousins – another book we weren’t too fond of. This was a lift the flap book which the kids usually enjoy, but the way the story was written was just not engaging for us at all. Other then the one time we read it together, I don't think it left our book basket all week.

 

Freight Train & Flying by Donald Crews – for anyone who has been reading my blog you know of my love for Donald Crews and his books! The pictures are always clear, colourful and crisp! and the text is short, simple, and engaging!

Tot School

Lucas is 26 Months

We were all a bunch of sickies at our house this week! We didn’t even do half of what I had planned, but we were still able to fit a bit of fun and learning into our week.

Here is a look at our week….

This week involved lots of playing with our train table

We got this train set for Lucas for Christmas and he LOVES it!

 

We did a traffic light craft.

Lucas LOVES working with glue!

When Lucas was finished with his traffic light he wanted another gluing project, so he made a circle collage!

 

Dominic stayed home sick from school one day this week, and he helped Lucas make a Vehicle Word Book that I got from Enchanted Learning.

 

We read Freight Train for our STart project this week

Here is Lucas playing with our freight train we made.

 

Lucas also coloured a train with some oil pastels, he loves colouring with those!

 

We used our blocks to make roads and tunnels for his vehicles, Lucas loves to do this!

That’s it for this week! Visit 1plus1plus1equals1 to see what other tots are learning.

stART~ Freight Train

This week we read Freight Train by Donald Crews for our stART activity. Yep! Another book by Donald Crews! What can I say, we LOVE his books!!

 

After reading the book – several times, we made a train from toilet paper rolls.

 

 

Lucas lost interest in painting after the second colour, so Dominic helped me finish the rest after he got home from school.

After the paint dried I joined all the pieces with paper clips and had Lucas glue on the wheels. It didn’t turn out quite how I had pictured, but Lucas loves it and that is all that matters!

 

See other great stART projects by visiting A Mommy's Adventures!

Tot School ~ Transportation Theme

I have decided to start doing some theme based learning activities with Lucas, my hopes is that it will create more structure in to our routine not only for Lucas but for me when planning activities. 

The theme we have started with is transportation – Lucas loves trucks, trains, planes, boats, and buses so this has been a very easy transition for us so far!

Lucas is 26 Months

Here is a look at what we did this week…

Cc is for Cars! With cars stickers

Lucas also put some stickers on his face.. his big brother taught him to do this!

Lucas worked on some of his puzzles this week too, this one that he got for Christmas – he loves it because its has a school bus! He also did his other favourite puzzle, the

Melissa and Doug vehicle sound puzzle.

We made a toilet paper roll airplane for our stART activity.  You can see the post here.

Lucas built a road for his school bus out of our blocks.

In the sensory table Lucas made car tracks in the play dough.

I made some transportation bottle top cards, inspired by this post. You can find the download for them here.

This is another activity I made for Lucas, you can find the post about it and the download here.

For some open ended art I set up our craft table for Lucas to paint with some of his little cars. I love his delicate fingers in this photo : )

We did this same activity last year in march – I cant believe how much he has matured since then!

We are going to continue on with this theme next week as well, Lucas is loving it and I have a million other ideas for us to do!

That’s it for this week! Visit 1plus1plus1equals1 to see what other tots are learning.