A Train Unit

Vocabulary Signs: Train

Train Sounds: TRAIN SOUNDS

Circle Time/Opening Song/Poem/Fingerplay:

"Trains"

Here's a little choo-choo train
Chugging down the track
Now it goes forward
Now it goes back
Now the whistle blows
Whooooo, Whooooooo!
What a lot of noise it makes
Everywhere it goes
Chooo-chooo-chooo!
The train comes running back.

Fingerplay:

This is a choo-choo train (Bend elbows)
Puffing down the track (Move arms forward)
Now it's going forward (Push arms forward)
Now it's going back (Push arms back)
Now the bell is ringing (Pretend to ring bell)
Now the whistle blows (Hold fist near mouth and pretend to blow)
What a lot of noise it makes Everywhere it goes. (Cover ears with hands)

Engine Pattern
Train Car Pattern
Caboose Pattern

Theme Song:

"Little Red Caboose"

Song Lyrics & Words

Little red caboose,
Chug, chug, chug-
Little red caboose,
Chug, chug, chug-
Little red caboose
Behind the train, train, train, train.

Smokestack on its back, back, back, back-
Coming around the track, track, track, track-
Little red caboose
Behind the train, choo!

Listen To Song

Activity: Playing with trains. Playing with train whistles.

Craft: Painting with trains.

Put small amounts of different colors of paint on a paper plate. Run the wheels of a toy train through the paint and use to create a picture on a sheet of art paper.

Books: Choo Choo Petr Horacek, Zane the Train, Susan Yoder Ackerman

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