1 Ready for take-off
CHILD-INITIATED
Explore air transport through role-play.
Resources
Indoors (preferably with a view of the outdoors): Check-in area - tickets, boarding cards, passports, luggage labels, suitcases, hand luggage, conveyor belt (cardboard boxes covered with wall-lining paper), scanner.
Lounge area - snack bar, coffee tables, chairs, newspapers, travel brochures and magazines, tape recording of flight announcements and tape recorder.
Outdoors Runway - luggage trolley, lights, runway markings, aeroplane (made from, for example, wooden hollow blocks and planks) with cockpit, plastic food trays, appropriate uniform hats.
Also provide aerial photographs of sea, clouds, towns, countryside and mountains.
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