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How Do People and
Things Move?

Activities for ages 4-5

• Go around your house and look at where things come from. Examine the labels of the clothes you wear and the food you eat. Talk about where they come from. Why do some bananas come from Central America? Why does milk come from the local dairy? Perhaps your climate is too cold for bananas. The milk will spoil if it is not refrigerated for too long, so it can't travel far. How did the food get to your house?
  
  
• Take a trip to the local supermarket to watch the food being delivered. How many different trucks do you see? Is there a separate truck for the bread and the fruit and vegetables?
  
  
• When you are outside, ask your children to watch animals traveling. Find animals that fly, swim, crawl under or over the ground, run, jump, and hop. Organize your findings. Count the number of animals you saw that moved in each way.
  
  
• Children who are just learning to use their bodies in space can imitate other forms of travel. They can hop like a rabbit, jump like a squirrel, slither like a snake. They can climb a chair and pretend it is a train or a plane.
  
  
• Have your children ask older relatives what their world was like when they were young. They can ask questions about transportation, heating and refrigeration, the foods they ate, the clothes they wore, and the schools they attended. Look at old pictures. How have things changed since Grandma was a child? Grandparents and great aunts and uncles are usually delighted to share their memories with the younger generation, and they can pass on a wealth of information.
  
  
• Talk about all the ways your children have traveled since they were babies. Go through photo albums and magazines and point out the pictures where you traveled or make a book called "traveling." Your children can sort out the pictures of things they traveled on--cars, boats, minivans, buses, trains, planes.
  
  
• Make milk carton boats to float in the bath tub or nearby pond.

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