Transportation

Activities:

All activities are aligned with VA approved standards and can be used with students in grades Pre-K through High School. 

• Math Strand Addressed:

  • Number/Number Sense

• Puzzles - Non Verbal students can request puzzle piece by exchanging picture. (4 Puzzles included)

• Varoom! by Pati King-DeBaun: 

  • Book and activities for language and literacy practice

• Communication Resources

  • GoTalk One

  • Communication Board for Core Vocabulary

  • Communication Board for Literacy Core

  • Information on how to use fringe vocabulary

• Magnetic Board 

  • with Shapes that make vehicles

  • counting with numbers

• File Folder Activities

  • Crazy Colored Cars

  • Number Traffic Jam

• Floor Mat with sound effects and magnetic vehicles

  • tow truck

  • police car

  • dump truck

  • ambulance

  • fire truck

  • cement mixer

Example Objectives:

• • Expressively and receptively identify 5 transportation items.

  • Identify transportation items by air, land, or sea.

  • Receptively and expressively identify 3 verbs (i.e. stop & go).

  • Receptively and expressively identify 3 places.

  • vocabulary (tow, cement, delivery van, garbage)

  • phonological awareness - rhyming with Little Blue Truck, The Race, and The Adventures of Taxi Dog

  • early math activities - comparing/categorizing with Trains and Truck Stop

Web Resources:

• Zoe Saldona Explains Transportation

• Don't Let the Pidgeon Drive the Bus     

Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

• Duck in the Truck

• Sheep on a Ship

• Sheep in a Jeep 

Songs

• Drive My Tractor

• We All Go Travelling By    

VDOE Resources: 

• Virginia's Early Learning & Development Standards ELDS 

• Introductory and Implementation Guidance Webinar on ELDS