The Bus for Us

A great book to start my vehicle unit!  The characters in the story are waiting for their bus...and see many other vehicles, including a firetruck, a garbage truck, and an icecream truck.  The link above gives the bilingual version.

How Many Vehicles?

I give the kids a fabric bag with a handful of vehicle counters in it.  They use this sheet to graph how many of each vehicle they have.

How Many Wheels? 

Students count how many wheels on each page of the book.

Vehicle Patterns

This is for a math station where I let the kids create a sentence strip "hat" with a vehicle pattern on it.

Crash! (sight words)

Crash! game.  Kids take turns reading sight words.  Turn moves to next person when the player either misses a word, or gets a "crash" card.

Crash (lowercase letters)

Same game as above but with lowercase letters.