Transportation planes, train, and ships activities, crafts. The accompanying train activity will bring the book to life and kids will learn their colors in an unusual way. This lesson plan begins with directions for a 3phase reading lesson. This classic childrens storybook freight train by donald crews is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. Here are a few more lesson plans you might be interested in. Im vanessa, a prek teacher with more than 20 years of classroom teaching experience. The story introduces each train car, one by one, introducing its color and the kind of train car it is, as the train moves slowly down the track. See more ideas about preschool, transportation theme and preschool activities. Freight train activities and crafts for toddlers and preschoolers. Kids can practice duplicating, continuing, and creating patterns with this handson train patterning activity set. Build foundational skills in your preschool learners with videos, lesson plans, and games. This is another simple yet strong and beautiful melody. Circle time begin the preschool trains lesson plan with i drive a freight train, by sarah bridges and illustrated by amy bailey muehlenhardt.
This is a great fine motor skill activity so i highly recommend this for toddlers and preschoolers. Freight train by donald crews we read freight train by donald crews. Features 5 fun and engaging transportation songs whole group activities for. Fun childrens learning activities, including printable templates, for preschool, kindergarten and. If you look at the back first, youll find a bright red caboose. Thanks so much for downloading home preschool 101s lesson planning packet. This week the preschool book club took the very wellknown book freight train by donald crews and challenged ourselves to think outside the box and bring a group of creative activities to all of you. It contains a lot of wonderful preschool trains projects for your children to enjoy. Asl lesson plan freight train a sign, read and play collection. Explore classroom activities, puzzles, teacher resources and enrichment pdfs for this. With smoke coming out of the moving engine, the train travels through tunnels and past cities until it reaches its destination. Boats and trains a preschool transportation lesson plan. Transportation planes, train, and ships activities, crafts, and games zoom into this theme to discover a wellpacked arrangement of preschool and kindergarten songs, rhymes, literacy ideas, math activities, movement activities, recipes, and literature focusing on.
Freight train activities for toddlers and preschoolers. It is highly recommended for children because of the simplicity of the story yet it packs a lot of learning opportunities. I remember reading freight train over and over with my boys. Students listen to the story the little engine that could and participate in a variety of activities that support the theme of trains. We hope you find it useful during your home preschool journey.
I didnt retell the story, but i used them with the song melissa depper at mels desk crafted. A preschool transportation theme is a traditional topic in most preschools but why preschoolers love activities that include playing with all types of transportation theme items including vehicles such as cars, trucks, airplanes and more. Freight train stefan grossman and christian marsh at the stock camp, national folk festival 2012. We joined the preschool book club in another round of connecting a fantastic preschool book with crafts, activities, and this time a snack. This week we will be crafting and playing along with freight train by donald crews. This freight train inspired train snack is healthy and fun. Freight train is the perfect book to explore so many avenues of learning such as colors, math, building, literacy and art. Find freight trains lesson plans and teaching resources. It is also a great activity to help students recognize colour words. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Trains here is a fun activity using empty egg cartons and toilet paper tubes. Activity ideas to go along with many books by donald crews.
Freight train fun freight train book activities, freight train activities. Add interest and variety to a lesson by using a puppet, which encourages participation and promotes self esteem. Show them pictures of trains that carry different things freight trains, passenger trains, etc. Our lesson this week focused on colors and numbers and we used the book freight train by donald crews as our model. This lesson on the train is part of a series in transportation for kindergarten. Here at prek pages, im committed to helping teachers just like you teach better, save time, and live more by providing you with everything you need to create a fun and engaging learning environment, lesson plans, and activities for your little learners. Students cut out the colored picture of 8 train cars depicted in the book. Let your children work together to create a train, using the materials any way they wish.
Prek freight train prints preschool art projects, kindergarten art. Freight train by elizabeth cotten fingerstyle guitar lesson. Contains great preschool trains related books that will help you to teach your children. Teaching resources for preschool lessons pbs learningmedia. Playing with trains and bottle caps via teach preschool. Transportation activities bundle transportation patterning activities. Activities for learning and connecting with toddlers and preschoolers here. We have focused on school bus, ten black dots and freight train. Browse freight train resources on teachers pay teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.
Beanbag tossget a basket and some different colored socks, balls, bean bags or all of the above. Have your child toss the different colored items into the basket. Freight train preschool book snack idea the ot toolbox. A free online early learning activity newsletter for parents and grandparents of preschool children. Create your very own name train with this preschool craft idea. Teach your children the names of the different types of cars on a freight train. Now ask them to guess what types of freight the train is carrying. Sponge painted train craft inspired by freight train buggy and buddysponge painted train art project inspired by the popular childrens book freight train. This plan includes everything you need to make your things that go unit perfect.
Expand product details when a train races by on a track, how many different cars are there. Become a premiere member to access this fulllength video and all of the instruction at my site. This article is full of fun and engaging activities based on freight train by donald crews a classic childrens story book that packs a lot of learning opportunities for readers. Inspire your students with videos, games, and activities aligned to state and national standards. The song has a constant bass line running throughout with a strong, yet simple, melody line playing simultaneously. You can pull together an assortment of simple books that will become a great focus for an author study in the younger grades. In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, teachingbooks supports the first amendment and celebrates the right to read. This lesson comes with over 15 minutes of video, pdf tabs and four audio backing tracks. Thanks so much for downloading this lesson plan pack from home preschool 101. Train snack provide children with saltine crackers, club crackers, ritz crackers and cheese cut in triangles or rectangles. The story freight train may already be considered a classic childrens book. We would practice colors and names of train cars and then start over again. Your child can yell out the color of the item as they toss it. In simple language and brightly colored illustrations, author donald crews explains how six cars of a freight train are pulled along the track by the black engine.
Little red caboose behind the train, train, smokestack on his back, going down the track. Humorous rhyming text and bold illustrations will be a huge hit with the trainloving preschool set. Do they know the difference between a freight train and a passenger train. Perfect addition to a transportation theme, or train theme, or freight train theme unit and lesson plans. Oct 19, 2012 today i taught my first toddler academy class of the session. This article offers a preschool lesson plan centered around boats and trains.
Train crafts and activities for kids freight train by. We used those colors to create a preschool or any age snack based on the book. Teachers can incorporate a shape, number word, and color lesson, as well as, a phonics lesson. The kids recognized the train cars and helped me place the trains on the feltboard as we sang the song. Inspired by storytime katie, i made a felt train similar to the trains in freight train. This is a very simple book with very few words on a page. Kindergarten trains lesson plans brighthub education. It includes bookspecific openended questions to guide discussion as well as 3 extension activities to further their learning and increase curiousity about trains, colors, and counting. With its unstoppable movement and power, this freight train is sure to pull even the youngest imagination forward. I found a book on trains that explains the parts of the trains and bug just loves it. Written by jean warren author of piggyback songs, themeasaurus and 123 art. This train color sorting activity is a fun way for young children to practice color recognition and sorting. Read more about freight train preschool book snack idea. Transportation theme 2 weeks of preschool transportation lesson plan fun.
Preschool kindergarten freight train pattern and sequencing game. Train ideas and printables magn making learning fun. Emergent reader freight train arts and crafts fine motorsensory. Train theme preschool lesson plans train themed preschool books. With simple pared down text and bright minimalistic pictures, the rainbow of colored train cars leaves a lasting impression on kids. Scroll down for full video lesson with tab of freight train. Train dramatic play area set up a dramatic play area with hats, train whistles, tickets, a hole punch or stamps, suitcases, etc. Trains preschool lesson plan preschool curriculum by. A preschool unit of basic concepts and language activities. Freight train by donald crews is a book that is sure to delight young children. Try these train themed sensory activity ideas for more ways to play and explore the. It introduces a variety of trains and their different jobs, includes two crafts, a song, action, dramatic play, numbers, counting in both english and spanish, a snack, and exercises for both large and small muscles. Trains preschoolpreschool lesson planspreschool educationcarnival ticketsdramatic play area.
The song was originally penned by elizabeth cotten when she was twelve years old around the year 1900, and has gone on to be recorded countless. If youre looking for an age reference for these activities, my youngest guy is two and could complete all of them. Donald crews book activities fantastic fun and learning. This trains preschool lesson plan is great for imaginative youngsters who love trains. Freight train is an eyecatching book, with its bright colors. Allow them to create an edibile train using the snack items. This lesson plan has the boat and train theme in each area of learning and even has theme being used in snack time. Freight train printables, classroom activities, teacher resources. For those children that are excited about trains it introduces the different types of carriages that a freight train has and for those that arent as interested in trains, its a great book to look at colours as each of the carriages is a different colour. Kindergarten art lessonsart lessons elementaryclasse dartschool art projectselements of artpreschool artart lesson plansart.
Lesson plans created with 2 and 3 year olds in mind. Art, craft and activity ideas as well as book and app. This little book is a great activity for students to complete after listening to the book, freight train by donald crews. Train themed preschool unit study simple living mama. For your math centers, math work stations, and math tubs in preschool, prek, prep, and kindergarten. This fun colors train activity painting with train cars extends freight train by donald crews. Freight train printables, classroom activities, teacher. So, we went to the library to find some trainthemed books. If you have a favorite train craft or activity, wed love for you to share the link.
Freight train by elizabeth cotten was written in the early 20th century and is very often taught to people who are new to fingerstyle guitar. An easy craft for toddlers, preschool, and kindergarten and a great find more information on easy kids crafts like this for next time we do trains shape craft transportation week shape train. Trains preschool preschool lesson planspreschool educationcarnival ticketsdramatic play area. Train crafts and activities for kids freight train by donald crews. Freight train fun freight train book activities, freight.