Big City Life

Mary 3y. 4m.

Once we went to the airport to see off our dad, who was going to the business trip. Maria was soo excited by the view from the window, by the infrastructure of the airport, by the planes taking off and landing, that I could hardly persuade her to go back home finally.. had to pay the whole fortune for the parking .. oops..

 

When came back, we studied the planes and other means of transport we could find in our kid’s encyclopedia as well as watched some youtube films on the topic. The buildings and other city’s infrastructure, however, we studied in a more interactive way. We build the whole city on the piece of paperboard: organized the traffic with traffic signs and lights, planted and painted the trees, built houses with glued windows, parked some cars (everything was done by Maria except me cutting off the trees and traffic lights, and drawing the roads). She enjoyed building the city, though less playing with it. The city, however, was valued more by other kids coming to us.

Another thing we made was an outside activity, when we were drawing with the chalks. To make it more interesting there were some tasks for Maria and her friend to fulfill:

1.       Maria and our small neighbour Nick were given some paper stuff (e.g. doctor, airplane, animals etc.). They had to find the right place where to stick them to:

·         Doctor – hospital (hint: red cross);

·         Animals – zoo (hint: cages);

·         Plane  - airport (hint: runways);

·         Vegetables – shop;

·         Train – railway.

2.       Had to find and draw waves in the swimming pool.

3.       Finish drawing the railway.

4.       Draw some traffic lights

Maria added the sun placing it near the airport and other colourful dots saying these are the planets. So, we decided it is no longer an airport but the planetarium and a spaceport.J