Construction Site

• DOMAIN(S)

  Communication, Language, and Literacy (CLL)
• INDICATOR(S)

  CLL2.4a
• AGE GROUP(S)

  48-60 months

During outdoor time, take a book outside, such as The Construction Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta. Show children the pictures and talk about what the various machines do. Add toy trucks and other earth- moving vehicles to the sand area and encourage children to compare them to the pictures in the book. Say, “Do you see one of our trucks that looks like this one? It's called a dump truck. It carries dirt from one spot and dumps it out in another.” Help them use existing toys to function like the equipment in the book. “Look at the excavator. It has a long claw on the front to dig up the soil. Do we have something we could use to excavate and to dig up our sand?”

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