PRESCHOOL LANGUAGE AND MOVEMENT LESSON

December 2007

By Miss Terry, Miss Sharon and Miss Katy

This month the lessons will be based on the book Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown. The hand rhyme will be The Train (see below). We will be talking about the parts of a train, different types of vehicles and categorizing objects during their individual therapy sessions. Best of all, we will be making a train decorations which is always a favorite activity. You can help carryover the language lessons learned in these activities by having your child tell you about the story and doing the hand rhyme together. Also, you can play categorization games by listing vehicles, toys and foods. “Who can name the most____!?” Happy Holidays!!

THE TRAIN

The train went down the track

(Extend one arm and run the index and middle fingers of the other hand down the arm.)

Choo, choo, choo, choo

The train ran right back.

(Run your fingers backwards up the arm.)

Choo, choo, choo, choo

Vocabulary/concepts:

Nouns Adjectives Actions Positions

trains	two	went	down
track	little	look	through
West	one	came	under
hill	old	going	over
mountains	long	made	below
river	steel	covered	on
bridge	dark	hurry	around
rain	deep	heard	from
snow	wet	travel	up
moon	shiny	blew
home	white	flew
wind	furry	climb
ocean	gleaming	stop
trip	black
	high
	big

Grammatical Forms

Past and present tense verb forms	adverbs
Pronouns (subject, possessive)	Articles (a, an, the)
Prepositions	Present progressive verb
Comparatives	Plural nouns
Irregular past tense	Negation

OtherMotor and Language Skills

Auditory and visual attention	Turn taking
Auditory and visual sequential memory	Simple, complex and compound sentences
Story retelling	categorization
Labeling	Parts/whole
Following directions	Phonemic awareness
Visual motor skills	Self-awareness
Pragmatic skills