All Aboard the Bus!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Transport: On the Move Over Land

Objectives

Early Learning Goals

  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. Talk about the features of the immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
  • Sing songs, make music and dance and experiment with ways of changing them. Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
  • Use phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. Write some irregular common words. Write simple sentences which can be read by you and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
  • Show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements. Move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. Handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.

Lesson Planning

Share knowledge of local bus routes and travelling by bus. Use drawing and writing to record a bus journey or to invent an imaginary bus.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To share knowledge of local bus routes and travelling by bus.
  • To use drawing and writing to record a bus journey or to invent an imaginary bus.

Children will:

  • Talk about the local bus routes and their own experiences of travelling by bus.
  • Learn new vocabulary.
  • Draw a design for an imaginative bus or a bus they have been on and use their phonic knowledge to record ideas, to label or to retell narrative.

You Will Need

  • Flipchart and pens
  • The Bus is for Us! by Michael Rosen
  • Resources for bus role play and pop up bus shape tent
  • Soft toy penguin