Cars

Personal Social and Emotional 

Talk to the children about bike and car safety, such as wearing a seatbelts in cars. Do we have a booster seat? Has it got its own straps or do we use a seatbelt? Is it a big seat or a booster?

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? What different types of car are there? Family car, Taxi, Racing car???

Literacy

Look at books relevant to cars. Read “Cars” books, look at Lightening McQueen and the other cars and vehicles. Look at Fictional and nonfiction books.

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 out door track - pretend to be a car, can we accelerate quickly, can we stay on the right side of the road, can we manoeuvre carefully?

Focused

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