The Airport

Welcome to the OLES Airport!   Our airport may be small, but it certainly has given our preschoolers a great runway for learning new vocabulary.  Each day, the preschoolers have the opportunity to actively play in the airport so that they can listen to and practice their new transportation words.  

In fact, the preschoolers have become experts at getting ready for a trip.  They have learned how to pack their suitcases, pull their heavy luggage through the airport, buy themselves a ticket for departure at the ticket counter and carry their luggage to the security station.  Some of them have even role played as a security officer who monitors the x-ray machine at the security station.  Others, are excellent passengers who wait by the gate & then board their flight for fun destinations.    

Each morning around 8:45 a.m. our jet airplane takes off from the ground & flies to a different winter destination...somewhere around the world.  The preschoolers are having a blast with this unit & have all taken turns role playing the different workers that you would find at an airport.  We have highly trained pilots, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, security officers and ticket counter workers.

In the end, the passengers have visited some fabulous winter destinations.  They often shovel snow & feed the arctic animals while they are there.  Some take pictures of the animals for magazines like National Geographic for Kids.  But, in either case, their love for learning language is taking off to new heights!