Naughty Bus

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Ask your child to tell you about each photo and scribe their words as captions to gowith the pictures. The bus has a multitude of adventures, including speeding through a plate of beans and falling into the garden pond.

I know some parents have been asking for a little structure and some are happy to pick and choose activities. The text has links to toys, transport, the history of toys and provides opportunities for discussions around behavioural expectations. If sharing this story corresponds with a birthday or other reason for a present you might like to wrap up a toy bus for children to unwrap before introducing the book – a special story about a new toy. They will have the opportunity to sort and categorise the toys and then create a piece of shared information writing as well as their own, before writing their own naughty toy adventure. This is a very unusual picture book with a story told through close up photography and mainly narrated bythe toy bus.

This story is intended for use with a Year 1 class and the PowerPoint contains lesson objectives linked to the Year 1 English curriculum aims. Age 3-5 Ayoung boy receives a toy bus as a presentand hasgreat fun exploring the world with his new toy which turns out to be quite a naughty bus – or is it the boy being naughty? Encourage children to recreate some of the scenes from the story using their own toys eg the tall buildings and traffic in London, the bus queue or in the garden (or park) even the baked bean scene if you can bear the mess!

We are currently changing the writing table into a car so thought I might use this book and just wondered if anyone had activities that worked well that I could adapt. PowerPoint presentation, that includes each chapter of the story and an explanation of each days activity. Thanks for letting us know :) You might also like to use the following colouring resources as cool-down or quiet-time activities: https://www. As the Naughty Bus is a typical London double-decker bus, links could also be made to getting to know London or any local area.Computing/ICT - plan, direct and film your own 'Naughty Bus' (or Naughty *other form of transport*) story. Four complete English units of work designed for Year 1 but easily adaptable for Reception or Year 2. I use it with my 3/4 yea olds as enrichment and extension work; looking at print, motivation for their own stories, small world play, what happens next. Take a toy bus or another small toy vehicle off for adventures indoors and in the garden if you have one or the local park. Very cleverly recreating children’s imaginative play this book is great fun to share with your child and to use as a springboard for their own play ideas.

From KidsTV123 Read what theauthor, Jan Oke, said about The Naughty Bus: ‘The text I’ve used is in the form of speech only, to reflect how children play and the photographs are shot at child’s eye level to make the scenes easy to ‘read’. Initially, the children will share information about buses and try and to find out what they already know about buses to create a shared simple piece of information writing. If you did not receive it and would like your child's unique username and password so you can access this, please contact me and I will give it you.The text mimics a child’s descriptive dialogue as he plays, switching between the words of the bus and the child himself. If you also type in 'Geraldine the Giraffe' or 'Mr Thorne does phonics' in YouTube there are some great phonics videos here. There is a variety of number tasks, shape tasks and fractions tasks - pick and choose what you find useful and helpful. just to let you all know, this morning (Monday 20th April) I sent a ParentHub message about the online resource 'Times Table Rock Stars'. I hope adults will enjoy it too, so they’ll want to read it with their children and work out together what on earth is going on – and who’s the naughty one – the bus or the boy?

uk/resource/t-l-5027-new-classroom-inspiration-quotes-mindfulness-colouring-sheets Let us know what you think! A two week unit of work based on The Naughty Bus designed for Year 1 but adaptable for Reception and Year 2. I just wondered if anybody has used this book with their class and have any nice suggestions of activities? After this, there will be some drama where the classroom is messed up or someone has drawn on something! They’re available in options with varying line width, meaning your pupils can pick whichever they’re most comfortable with.Some would argue that Blaise Pascal, a French inventor and mathematician, came up with possibly the very first regular bus route in 1662. Children discuss which vehicles they have tried; they share their reason for travelling and describe how it felt. Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context.