Transportation

Our annual St. Jude Trike-a-thon just passed again... and as usual we do a transportation theme that week. For this theme (since we focused a lot of bike safety) we set up a practice bike track in our classroom.
I used small cones that i place around the circle rug. I also had a traffic light set up and we called out traffic signals for the children to follow.

We also set up a bike shop where the children could go and "fix their bikes"

 I also set out maps...small cars and construction toys for the children to manipulate

As part of our transportation theme we also made "hot air balloons" up until this year we have had a severe latex allergy in our school and have not been allowed to use balloons. So we made the most of this opportunity and made cute hot air balloons using straws, cups and balloons.
We added different sized animals and raced to see which was faster at hitting the ground (gorilla vs mouse, elephant vs. kitten etc)
The kids LOVED it!