Bikes and Cars

Personal Social and Emotional 

Talk to the children about bike and car safety, such as wearing a helmet on a bike to protect our heads if we accidently fall off and the importance of wearing our seatbelts in cars.

Understanding the World

Talk to the children about where they like to go and visit when in the car. What might they see on the journey when they look out the window?

Literacy

Look at books relevant to cars and bikes. Fictional and nonfiction.

Mathematics

Create a car parking area for toy cars using masking tape/chalk. Write the numbers on each space to help encourage children’s number recognition.

Expressive Art and Design

Make tyre track marks using cars dipped in paint. Make a paper car, glue on the wheels. Mark making with cars (Sellotape pens to the rear and create pictures whilst moving the car in different directions).

Communication and Language

Sing ‘The Wheels on the Car’ song (same tune as wheels on the bus, wheels, wipers, horn, windows).

Physical Development

Practice our gross motor skills by having fun on and with the bikes, trikes and scooters and large car toys in the outside areas.

Focused

Bike, car, wheels, wheel, tyre, horn, bell, spinning, helmet, fast, slow, stop, start, go.