Collected Resources

1. Read You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus. Identify each form of transport. Children discuss which vehicles they have tried; they share their reason for travelling and describe how it felt.
2. Enjoy You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus. Relish the illustrations and amusing scenarios. Invite children to select their favourite and to use because to provide a reason for their opinion, e.g. A whale riding a bike because it is funny to see something so big on something so small.
3. Enjoy Mrs. Armitage on Wheels. Stop before the final page. Suggest alternative forms of transport for Mrs. Armitage. Select the best idea. Finally, read and enjoy the remainder of the story.
4. Share Mrs. Armitage on Wheels Identify each problem Mrs. Armitage solves. Discuss the improvements the children would make to their bikes/scooters, e.g. add a wireless speaker to play music, a TV, a seat for teddy.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Biking by Judith Nicholls
Share the poem and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Encourage the children to vary the pitch and tone of their voice as they rehearse to emphasise the rhyming words, e.g. curl/whirl. Support children to learn and perform the poem in small groups.

1. Holidays
2. Naughty Bus
3. Sequencing words
4. Labelling maps

1. Singing
2. Make a map
3. Recount
4. Giving instructions

1. Role-play
2. Small world
3. Sensory play
4. Malleable

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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...
4. 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.
5. 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.

Owl and the moon

This is a story about an owl hunting for the moon and eventually finding it! Each page has a few lines of simple decodable text so that children are encouraged to read several sentences.