Need for Speed!

This week to start our new topic of transport we decided to create our own racing tracks to race our cars. We used our fine and gross motor skills to build our own transport vehicles, such as a cars, airplanes and trains. The children chose which form of construction to use with options such as Lego, stickle bricks and mobilo. The children each had a turn to come up to the starting point of our race track and once their car was built we made predictions as a group as to which car would win. We found that the forms of transport that were built using the Lego and mobilo were the ones which went the furthest, whereas the stickle bricks transports were not that great and the wheels got stuck!

We then researched using the touch and tilt, different ideas of how to build our own forms of transport and we noticed a Lego car which used a balloon to help it move along the track. Preschool were eager to trial this out and to extend our activity idea we decided to make our own and see if it worked. When we placed the balloons on our cars we found out that the cars didn’t want to move as far along our race track, we had made. We kept trailing different cars and ways to attach the balloon to the car, however it didn’t work as well for us as it did in the video we had seen on the touch and tilt. And it only moved along the track slightly.

Although we had faced some complications with our final part of our activity, preschool thoroughly enjoyed experimenting and trailing ways to make our transport move. Well done preschool!