- blocks
- small objects such as connecting cubes
- small toy cars and trucks
- highway
- obstacle
- ramp
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5 Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects.
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation Engages in pretend play and acts out roles.
Literacy Knowledge/Print Concepts and Conventions Recognizes print in everyday life, such as numbers, letters, one’s name, words, and familiar logos and signs.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 4 Engage in play experiences that involve naming and sorting common words into various classifications using general and specific language.
Science and Technology/Physical Sciences 20 Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Science and Technology/Physical Sciences 21 Explore and describe various actions that can change an object’s motion such as pulling, pushing, twisting, rolling, and throwing.
Road Obstacles
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Skill Focus: Small Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Have children use straight and curved blocks to create a long winding highway. Encourage children to include bridges, ramps, and/or tunnels. Show children how to lay blocks on their sides to create walls. Have “drivers” maneuver cars and trucks through the highway without knocking down any walls. Challenge children to include various obstacles, such as small connecting cubes, that cars and trucks must go around in order to proceed. Help them make road signs that warn drivers of obstacles in the road (e.g., Dead End, Detour, etc.) Talk about what the road signs mean.