THE TOPIC OF OUR UNIT IS "TRANSPORT/VEHICLES". AS YOU CAN SEE THIS IN ITSELF IS A VERY VAST TOPIC OF STUDY. AS I HAVE PUPILS BETWEEN AGE 4-7 I HAVE INCLUDED ACTIVITIES THAT ARE SUITABLE FOR THIS AGE GROUP. BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS ADJUST YOUR OWN LEVEL.
WE START FOR THE YOUNG ONES WITH A POEM. FIRST WE READ ALONG LOOKING AT THE BOOK AND THEN WE CHANT IT AS WE PLAY AROUND. THIS IS A GOOD ONE TO PRACTISE PROPER POSITIONAL LANGUAGE. I AM GIVING HERE ITS OPENEING LINES, YOU CAN GET THE FULL POEM FROM POEMS CATEGORIES.
I AM DRIVING IN A CAR
I AM DRIVING IN A CAR
I AM DRIVING IN A CAR
I AM DRIVING IN A CAR
OVER THE MOUNTAINS
THROUGH THE TREES
TRAVEL THE WORLD
AND THE SEVEN SEAS
I AM SAILING ON A SHIP
I AM SAILING ON A SHIP
and so on
ACTIVITIES:
Islamic:
It’s a good opportunity to memorize and learn practical implementation of the duaas,
Dua before riding a vehicle
dua before sailing
when arriving at destination
when stoping at a point for a short time only
when starting for a journey
when coming back from a journey
(All the above should be memorized in Arabic, these can be found in many books, I use My prayer book for children by dar-us-salam publishers and radiant prayers by Mufti Taqi Usmani)
ARABIC:
we built on our vocabulary about transports and forming simple sentences while playing with the cars, and doing the activity 'exploring the forces'
EXPLORING THE FORCES:
For this activity i assume that children have some previous knowledge about measuring different distances and objects. If this isnt the case you can always start from here.
Ask children to think about toy cars rolling on a flat surface and to suggest a question they might explore eg Do the lorries travel further than the trucks? Help children to decide what to do and to measure the distance travelled by each in standard or non-standard units eg straw lengths. Talk with the children about what they found out and challenge them by suggesting you could get different results. Help them to realise that factors eg surface and how hard you push make a difference.
Let children explore toy cars rolling down ramps. Ask them what makes a difference to how far the car travels from the bottom of the ramp eg height of ramp, how far up the ramp it starts,surface of ramp, amount of push. Ask children to suggest a question they might test. Help them to decide what to do. Talk with children about how they will measure how far each car has gone.
Provide children with an outline table for recording results. At the end of the work, ask children what might have made comparisons between results unfair and whether what happened matched their prediction.
In the second stage tell children that we will make a fair comaprision this time, children should experience rolling different toy vehicles down different sorts of surfaces and measure how far each car rolled. Tell them it will be done by using a single car and rather than pushing it keeping it on the same point on the ramp to make the experiment just. Different materials, like wood, metal, wool, cotton etc can be used as the romps for car. Older children can also record their measurmenst on charts.
MAKING CARD/WOOD VEHICLES:
Begin by showing the pictures of different types of vehicles eg lorries, prams, cars, vans, ambulances, caravans, fire engines, tractors, buses, carnival floats. Discuss with the children the different features of the vehicles, eg Why do vehicles have wheels? Do they all have the same number and size of wheels? Why are vehicles different shapes? Which vehicles have parts that move, light up or make a noise? Ask the children to identify the different parts of vehicles – wheel, axle, chassis, body, cab. Young children could make simple freehand drawings of vehicle and label parts appropriately.
In the second stage explain to children how to use wheels and axles, understanding that wheels and axles can be assembled in two different ways:
– either the wheel is attached tightly to the axle and the axle is free to rotate,
or
– the axle is fixed with the wheel free to rotate around it.
Ask the children to practice joining wheels and axles to allow movement. The children could try out different ways of making axle holders eg using clothes pegs, punched holes in card or boxes, using large drinking straws. The children could try out different finishing techniques eg collage, paint, cut-out shapes to stick on, computer-generated graphics or text to print out and stick on. Using pictures from books or magazines ask children to describe a vehicle and the type of person who would drive it. Concentrate on the character of the person. They could then design a vehicle for a person they know.
VEHICLES IN THE PAST:
Children could be shown different pictures of the cars, trains, ships of past eras and present. Talk to them about what differences they can see and explain the more complicated inner differences. Older children should be encouraged to write a report about the differences. Smaller ones can always cut out the pictures (if using magazines or newspapers) or print them out (if using computer) and make a collage.
RESOURCES:
1.My child liked this worksheet quite alot, so may be you also want to give it a try
2. give a try to this website
3. a very good activity to understand the basic parts of a car like wheels, axle, chasis etc. click here
4. for practical lessons on making rolling toys, click here
5. for arabic vocab about transport, click here , for animated ones here and here
Great work. this will surely help the kids. keep up the good work.
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