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Trains Lapbook Created by Robin Diedrichs

Lapbook Components

                                                     

Train Library List

Freight Train by Donald Crews

This Train by Paul Collicutt

Train Song by Diane Siebert

Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo by Kevin Lewis

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

A Ride in the Crummy by Gary Hines

Objectives

Exposure to rhyming words.
Learn the concept of opposites using pairs of words from several train books.
Learn train words that begin with the letter T.
Learn how to write the letter T.
Recite Philippians 4:13.
Become familiar with train songs and poems.
Learn the names of different types of train cars.
Match numbers to correct amount of animals.
Match correct picture with vocabulary words from train books.
Develop fine motor skills by cutting and pasting.
Identify the following shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, and octagon.

 

Additional Ideas

1. Exploring words with your child in relation to movement  or action words. In Freight Train by Donald Crews the words moving, going, and crossing are used. Demonstrate acting out these words for your child. Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo  uses the following -ing words: blowing, turning, setting, falling. Train Song uses the following -ing words: going, rolling, rumbling, sitting, grumbling, slicing, singing, clickety-clacking, hauling, disappearing, slowing, creaking, clanking, moaning, groaning, waiting, peering, pulling, and roaring. Have your child act out some of these words. You could also brainstorm some additional -ing words and have your child act them out. For example, running, sitting, standing, hopping, ….

2. Use this unit to learn to identify colors if your child has not already done so. You could also explore the page in Freight Train where the train is crossing trestles. Talk about the way the colors show the movement of the train. You could do an experiment with coffee filters where your child colors on the filter with water soluble markers. Have them leave plenty of room between colors. Have them use their finger to drop water on the design. The water will cause the color of the marker to spread out and reveal the secondary colors with which the ink is made. This is called chromatography. You could also explore mixing colors to make new colors with finger paint – red + yellow = orange.  Make sure the discovery is done by the child.  Don't be quick to point out that red + yellow = orange.  Let your child discover it for himself. 

3. Explore the words in the different books listed above that are used to make the train sounds – clickety-clack, chug-chug, puff-puff, chugga-chugga choo-choo, whooooo-whooooo, ding-dong, chug chugging, harrumph, whoot whoot, kadunk-kathunk, huffa-puffa, akachoo-kachoo-kachoo, and kadonk-kathonk. Pretend to be trains and go around the house making the noises.

4. Visit a local zoo or park to ride a small train in your area. Take pictures to put in the lapbook.

5.  Make a train whistle.  Choose one of the ideas listed below:

1. Toilet Paper Tubes:Toilet paper tubes, Wax Paper, Rubber Band, Paint
What You Do: Decorate a toilet paper tube with paint. Then punch a hole about a half-inch down the tube. Finally put a circle of wax paper over one end and secure it with a rubber band. Children can pretend to be a train and make whistle-like noises (sounds more like a kazoo)

2. Water Bottle: Let your children make train whistle sound by blowing across the top of a plastic bottle. Talk to them about how trains have certain whistle patterns that they use when they are crossing a road, meeting another train, etc.

Train Links

Train craft

Train Number Writing Worksheet

Train Alphabet Writing Worksheet

Make a Candy Train

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