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May: Transportation
Kindergarten 1
Week 1 Lesson 1
ACTIVITY PLAN
Learning Objectives:
1) Children will be able to identify and to listen to the rhyming words based
on the poem.
2) Children will be able to answers questions after hearing the poem.
3) Children will be able to use their imagination to manipulate open-ended
materials to create an artwork on a hot air balloon.
4) Children will be able to share how they created their artwork and the
reason why they have designed or created in such a way.
Learning Areas Key Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions
L&L
-Copy card and phrases with understanding of basic writing
conventions
-Express personal needs and wants
-Talk about personal experiences with others
-Respond appropriately to who, what, where questions
-Show understanding of the poem by responding to
questions and talking about the events.
A&C
-Look at the different forms of art and talk about them.
-Create 2-dimensional artwork from observation and
imagination.
-Create artworks using a variety of techniques and media.
Perseveran
ce

Reflectivene
ss

Appreciatio
n

Inventivene
ss

Sense of
Wonder

Engageme
nt

Materials needed:
1) Poem chart
2) Paper plates
3) Art materials
4) Writing materials
5) Paint
Activities
Introductory Activity:

Teachers Notes

Teacher will introduce children to the poem, hot air

balloon
After reading the poem, teacher will engage children to
read together.
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When reading the poem, teacher can emphasize on
the rhyming words for children to hear.
Teacher can also drag the words to ensure that
children are able to hear the rhyming words clearly.
After that, teacher will engage children in a short
discussion.
Guiding questions:
-Are there hot air balloons in Singapore?
-Why do you think there are no hot air balloons in
Singapore?
-Why do you think the hot air balloon is able to rise?
-How does a hot air balloon look like?
Lesson Development:
After the discussion, teacher will facilitate children to
create their hot air balloon art.
Teachers will provide children with the various art
materials for them to use their imaginations and to
manipulate the materials.

Teacher can assist children in cutting and also to

validate childrens work while they are doing.
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Closure:
At the end of the activity, teacher will invite children
to share what they have created and why they have
designed their hot air balloon in such a way.
Teacher will prompt children to describe and to show
their understanding of what they have created.
Follow up:
Teacher will invite children to write short sentences
about the hot air balloon and to display their art
together with the sentence that they have created.
Teacher can also show children a video of hot air
balloon and expose them on how it works.

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Hot Air Balloon

I'm leaving town
I'll be back soon
I'm taking a ride
in a hot air balloon.
The noise is loud
when the burners fire.
The heat takes me up
higher and higher.
I float in the sky.
It's a wonderful thing.
Now I know why
flying birds sing
May: Transportation
Kindergarten 1
Week 1 Lesson 2
ACTIVITY PLAN
Learning Objectives:
1) Children will be able to identify and to explore more on the topic of
rockets.
2) Children will be able to countdown to 20 and writing it in numerals.
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3) Children will be able to
Learning Areas Key Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions
NUM
-Rote count to at least 20
-Recognise and match to the quantity of a group of objects
L&L
-Copy card and phrases with understanding of basic writing
conventions
-Express personal needs and wants
-Talk about personal experiences with others
-Respond appropriately to who, what, where questions
-Show understanding of the poem by responding to
questions and talking about the events.
Perseveran
ce

Reflectivene
ss

Appreciatio
n

Inventivene
ss

Sense of
Wonder

Engageme
nt

Materials needed:
1) Poem Chart
2) Worksheet
3) Writing materials
4) Photographs of rockets
5) Video player
Activities
Introductory Activity:

Teachers Notes

Teacher will start off the lesson by introducing children

to the poem, five little spacemen
After that, teacher will engage children to read
together and to listen carefully to the rhyming words.
Teacher will engage children to read a few times to
allow them to remember.

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Lesson Development:
Teacher will then share with children more about
rockets by showing pictures of rockets.
Teacher will then show a video on how a rocket blast
off into the sky.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnoNITE-CLc
After that, teacher will tell children that before a rocket
blast off into the sky, the astronauts and the people
from the control centre will countdown.
Teacher will then show children a video to reinforce
childrens learning to countdown to 20.
Teacher will then allow children to countdown together
from 20.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOQkPk5ilK0
To facilitate childrens attention and interest, teacher
can show children a video to reinforce their learning to
countdown from 20.
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Closure:
Teacher will end off the activity by count downing
from 20 with the children again.
Teacher will then reinforce childrens learning by telling
them that spaceships and rockets are also
transportations that allow astronauts and spacemen to
travel from a place to another at great speed.
Follow up:
Teacher can engage children to create a rocket art.
Teacher can also facilitate children to change the poem
words and to replace a word to create their rocket
poem.

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Five Little
Spacemen
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Five little spacemen sitting on the stars.

The first one said, Lets go to Mars.
The second one said, There are rockets in the air.
The third one said,But we dont care.
The fourth one said, Lets go up in the sky.
The fifth one said, Lets fly, fly, fly.
Then swish went the ship into the night,
And the five little spacemen
Flew out of sight!

Date: ___________
Count down before the rocket blast off!

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May: Transportation
Kindergarten 1
Week 1 Lesson 3
ACTIVITY PLAN
Learning Objectives:
1) Children will be able to understand the benefit of having cargo ships.
2) Children will be able to understand and know about how goods are
shipped to Singapore in cargos.
3) Children will be able to share with the teachers what they know or their
interest in the topic during discussion.
4) Children will be able to know how things work in their environment as
well as the various transports in the environment.
Learning Areas Key Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions
DOW
-Observe and be aware of the world they live in.
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L&L

Perseveran
ce

-Copy card and phrases with understanding of basic writing

conventions
-Express personal needs and wants
-Talk about personal experiences with others
-Respond appropriately to who, what, where questions
-Show understanding of the poem by responding to
questions and talking about the events.
Reflectivene
ss

Appreciatio
n

Inventivene
ss

Sense of
Wonder

Engageme
nt

Materials needed:
1) Worksheet
2) Images of cargo ships in Singapore.
3) Colour pencils
4) Writing materials

Activities
Introductory Activity:
Teacher will start off the lesson by engaging children in
a short discussion.
Guiding question:
-How are goods imported into Singapore?
-How does food and clothing being shipped to
Singapore in big quantities?
-Have you seen a cargo ship before?
Lesson Development:
Teacher will then show children images of cargo ships
in Singapore and the shipping port in Singapore.
Teacher will explain to the children that the cargo ships
contain containers that are filled with goods from other
countries.
Teacher will also explain to the children that the cargo
ships help to transport goods to our country and for
the people.
Teacher will then facilitate children to complete the
worksheet.
Teacher will read out the sentence to the children to
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Teachers Notes

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allow children to know what they are writing.

Closure:
At the end of the activity, teacher can reinforce
childrens learning by allowing children to brainstorm
and think of what are the things that could be
transported into Singapore.
Teacher will then write down childrens responses on
the whiteboard or on chart papers.
Follow up:
Teacher can engage children to draw out things that
can be shipped into Singapore by providing them with
an image of a cargo container.

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Date: __________________

Colour and write out the sentence.

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The cargo
ship
transport
goods to
Singapore.
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May: Transportation
Kindergarten 1
Week 1 Lesson 4
ACTIVITY PLAN
Learning Objectives:
1) Children will be able to sing and dance to the song.
2) Children will be able to copy the cards and phrases and learn new
vocabularies related to the theme.
3) Children will be able to understand that rockets are also transportation
vehicles.
Learning Areas Key Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions
A&C (M&M)
-Sing confidently
-Create actions and new verses to songs
L&L
-Copy card and phrases with understanding of basic writing
conventions
-Express personal needs and wants
-Talk about personal experiences with others
-Respond appropriately to who, what, where questions
-Show understanding of the poem by responding to
questions and talking about the events.
Perseveran
ce

Reflectivene
ss

Appreciatio
n

Inventivene
ss

Sense of
Wonder

Engageme
nt

Materials needed:
1) Vocabulary chart
2) Video player
3) Worksheet
4) Chart papers
5) Writing materials
Activities
Introductory Activity:

Teachers Notes

Teacher will start off the lesson by allowing children to

singa and dance to the song, five little astronauts.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLR4vp9OJ8
After that, teacher will engage children in a short
discussion.

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Guiding questions:
-Where does the astronauts sleep in?
-Where does the astronauts work in?
-What does an astronaut do?
Lesson Development:
Teacher will then move on to the lesson by introducing
children to the vocabulary list.
Teacher will engage children to read together.
Teacher will then facilitate children to complete the
worksheet.
Closure:
At the end of the lesson, teacher will recap the new
vocabularies learnt as well as to allow children to talk
about what they know about spaceships and
astronauts.
Follow up:
Teacher can engage children to create a song by using
the tune learnt in this lesson.
Teacher can facilitate children to change the lyrics of
the song. It can also be done as a form of poem.

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Date: __________
Write out the words.

rocket
flag
moon
star
astronau
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rocket

moon

flag

astronaut

star

helmet

moon
buggy
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gloves

Five Little Astronauts

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"Five little astronauts jumping on the moon,

One fell off and bumped his head,
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said
No more astronauts jumping on the bed!
Four little astronauts jumping on the moon
One fell off and bumped his head
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
No more astronauts jumping on the bed!
Three little astronauts jumping on the moon
One fell off and bumped his head
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said
"No more astronauts jumping on the bed!"
Two little astronauts jumping on the moon,
One fell off and bumped his head,
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
"No more astronauts jumping on the bed!"
One little astronauts jumping on the moon,
One fell off and bumped his head,
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
"Put those monster right to bed,
No more astronauts jumping on the bed!"

May: Transportation
Kindergarten 1
Week 1 Lesson 5
ACTIVITY PLAN
Learning Objectives:
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1) Children will be able to listen to the rhyming words and answer questions
related to the poem.
2) Children will be able to use their imagination to manipulate open-ended
materials to create their own rocket space ship.
3) Children will be able to share with their peers and teacher the artwork
that they have created.
Learning Areas Key Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions
A&C
Use elements of art to represent ideas and feelings in their
art works.
-Create art work using different medias
-Create 2 dimensional and 3-dimensional art work through
imagination.
L&L
-Copy card and phrases with understanding of basic writing
conventions
-Express personal needs and wants
-Talk about personal experiences with others
-Respond appropriately to who, what, where questions
-Show understanding of the poem by responding to
questions and talking about the events.
Perseveran
ce

Reflectivene
ss

Appreciatio
n

Inventivene
ss

Sense of
Wonder

Engageme
nt

Materials needed:
1) Poem chart
2) Chart paper
3) Art materials
4) Scissors and glue
5) Coloured paper
6) Toilet rolls
Activities
Introductory Activity:
Teacher will start off the lesson by introducing children
to the poem, Get aboard the spaceship
After reading or singing the poem, teacher can engage
children in a short discussion.
Guiding questions:
-How fast do you think a rocket can move up to the
sky?
-Why do you think astronauts need to countdown
before the rock flew off?
-Do you think the rocket is the fastest transportation?
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Lesson Development:
Teacher will then engage children to create their own
rocket spaceship.
Teacher will brief children on the instructions as well as
to help them imagine visually how they can use the
recycled or open-ended materials to create their
artwork.
Teacher will also allow children to decorate and make
their rocket spaceship unique.

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Closure:
Teacher will invite children to share with their peers
their creation and the reasons why they have created
their artwork in such a way.
Follow up:
Teacher can allow children to write short sentences
about what they have learnt about rockets and
spaceships. After that, teacher can display childrens
work together with the sentence written.

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Climb Aboard The

Spaceship
Tune: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Get on board the space ship, were

going to the moon.
Put on all your space gear, the rocket
takes off soon!
Look outside the window, well soon
see stars pass by.
Here comes the countdown, Its time for
us to fly!

10-9-8-7-6- 5-4-3-2-1--- BLAST OFF!!

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