Active Learning
- Holidays
- Naughty Bus
- Sequencing words
- Labelling maps
Map my journey
English Reception
This unit is part of
Reception English Transport
Creating and Thinking Critically
- Singing
- Make a map
- Recount
- Giving instructions
Exploring and Playing
- Role-play
- Small world
- Sensory play
- Malleable
Books to Share
- Read The Hundred Decker Bus. Enjoy the story. Notice the different locations the bus journeys to. Identify how/why the bus changes at different stages in the story. Discuss favourites.
- Display the map from The Hundred Decker Bus (p13-14). Notice it is a stylised aerial view. Identify each location. Help children to select and sequence three different places the bus journeyed to.
- Unfold the 100-decker bus (p.22). Count the decks and discuss. Then, discuss and sequence which decks children would like to visit and why, e.g. First, I would go to the pool because...
- Enjoy The Train Ride. Read the first double page aloud but stumble on some words. Ask children to list strategies for reading unfamiliar words (resources). Children use strategies to read the text.
- Read The Train Ride. Identify what the characters see on the journey. List ideas as words or phrases. Show sequencing words (resources) and model converting the ideas into an oral recount.
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: This Is the Way We Cross the Road
Share the poem and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Remind children the poem is teaching them to cross the road safely. Children perform it together as a class.
You Will Need
Essential text
The Hundred Decker Bus by Mike Smith
Naughty Bus by Jan Oke
The Train Ride by June Crebbin
Resources
Suitcase, summer clothes
Toy bus
Large sheet/roll of paper
Map of the school or local road map
Uniform for a bus driver, paper tickets,
Large floor road map, various transport toys
Straw, shaving foam, magnetic letters, playdough