The Wheels on the Bus!

So Tuesday was such a fun day learning about our poor little sheep in a jeep, we continued our theme of travel by land learning all about buses!  In the touch and feel pool, we started the morning playing with tangram puzzles, which are clear shapes of many colors that can be put together to make all sorts of different designs like houses, snowmen, cars....Also, when you put two tangram shapes together of different colors, you can make new colors (i.e. yellow and blue together make a green tangram etc.).  It is a great review of shapes and really cool when you look through them...everything is the same color as the tangram!

As a mom of a 3 year old boy, we happen to have quite a few buses around our house.  So for open center time, I brought our collection of buses to share with Ryan and Ethan.  As the boys played with the buses, we talked about all the different parts of the bus and the shapes of each part- the wheels, door, windows, stop sign, the driver, and the passengers.  We used farm animals as the passengers on the bus.  Ryan used some blocks to make a school house.  Ethan enjoyed driving the bus around the room, but did not like the idea of having animals as the passengers!  These prized buses were a true test of our sharing skills as well!

Both Ryan and Ethan are super interested in using scissors and cutting right now.  It is a great fine motor exercise for strengthening those little fingers.  Today we worked on cutting on a line on long cutting strips in addition to cutting pieces of paper hung up high.  Try this at home for additional practice.  

Our book today was School Bus by Donald Crews.  This book is very simple but very informative as it talks all about school buses ...large and small buses, waiting for the bus, stopping and going at red and green lights, empty and full buses.

When we finished our book, we headed to the art table to make our own buses.  Ryan and Ethan glued the wheels and the stop sign on their buses and then added pictures of themselves as the passengers on the bus, and me as the driver!  We again reviewed the shapes of the wheels, windows, doors, and stop sign (octagon).  Then we watched this short video to summarize our language lesson.

Hope you all have a great weekend.  We have another fun week planned as we learn all about construction trucks.  It should be another favorite among your boys!