Week 1: Things that Go

Day 1

Letter of the Week: A

Introduce the letter A. Write a uppercase and lowercase A. Talk about what sound the letter A makes. Create the letter A in play dough.  Pick out books at the library that start with the letter A or have the letter A in them frequently. Find the letter A in the book and practice making the sound.  Talk about the words that start with the letter A.

Scripture Story: Nephi Builds a Ship

Resources on LDS.org for telling this scripture story: https://www.lds.org/children/resources/topics/nephi-builds-a-ship?lang=eng

Day 2

Theme Book: Go Dog Go

Read Go Dog Go. Look for all the different things that go in the book. Make a list with pictures or words. Act out using the different transportation methods or show how they work(skates, stroller, bike, scooter, unicycle, walking, cars, roller coaster, arms and legs (swimming), helicopter, houseboat, ferris wheel, boat, skis, blimp, swings).

Primary Song: Do As I'm Doing

Act out driving a car or flying a plane or other transportations from Go Dog Go.

Day 3

Activity 1: Red Light Green Light Craft and Game

Make a red, yellow, and green sign. Have them glue bits of colored construction paper onto a paper plates or paint plates with each color.  Use the plates to teach green means go, yellow means slow down, and red means stop.  Have them run for green, walk for yellow, and stop for red.  

Food: Banana and Apple Racers

Make apple racers by cutting an apple into slices and attaching grapes for wheels with tooth picks.  

Make banana racers by adding four banana slices to a full banana with toothpicks and a grape on top as the driver. You could draw lines on a paper plate to make a track to drive the apple racers around.

Day 4

Activity 2: Floating Boats

Make boats and float in bucket of water outside. You could use aluminum foil, styrofoam, plastic cartons, or any other recyclable items. Fill with sticks, leaves, rocks, etc. and talk about how boats transport things and people.

Coloring Pages: Transportation

Print out a few of the many free transportation related coloring pages found here.