Boats

Personal Social and Emotional

Encourage sharing and listening to others. Ask questions at group time. Some examples:- Who has been in a boat before? What was the boat like? Where did it take you? In group time discuss what a ferry is. Show examples using a cardboard box, ramp and toy cars.

Communication and Language

Share the story of ‘Mr Grumpy’s Outing’, discuss what type of boat he had. Was it safe? Was there a happy ending? Learn and sing ‘The big ship sails on the alley alley o’.

Mathematics

Order toy boats by size in groups of 3. Order them small, medium and large. Read 10 Little Pirates counting book.  Practise counting from 10 to 0.

Understanding the World

Find out best materials to make a boat. Try them out in the water tray. Try paper, wooden blocks, a plastic cup, pebbles, sea shells. Make a large fan from card and see if the boat will move across the water when waving the fan.

Physical Development

Make a large pirate ship outside using the heavy wooden blocks. Also make a long rowing boat for several children. Practise the rowing motion backwards and forwards.

Expressive Art and Design

Make wavy, stormy sea pictures using paint and large brushes. Make a paper shape collage. Use different sized shapes to make a boat to stick on the sea pictures.

Focused Vocabulary

Boat    Float   River   Sea   Canal   Lake  Ferry  Canoe  Oars  Yacht