Wheels on the Bus

Wheels on the Bus!

Daily Question:  Have you ever ridden on a bus? 
Two of our students have! 


Parents, thank you for taking the time to help your student sign in!  This helps them practice name writing and letter recognition and also acts as an attendance record for me.
 
Toys:  Giant Bus Floor Puzzle and Fisher Price Village (and Bus), Spaghetti Dolls and Bus, FP bus, and trucks. 

Snacks: Fresh strawberries and Goldfish Crackers and Pretzels.

Indoor Recess Fun:



Show and Teach:  We had fun reading a story Show & Tell Day in Circle Time today!

Carter--Choose to share Froggy's First Day of School because "I forgot my backpack in the car!"
Andi--Disney's "Anna" dress.  "I got it from Christmas.  I forgot my Anna hair!"
Chloe--"This is a shell from my special collection at home.  See, it has a hole in it."
Luke--"This is a picture I made for my Mom!"  He used glitter glue on it.
Micah--showed us a stuffed Penquin.
Eva--I Love School book because it has a School Bus in it.
Liam--FP School Bus

Thanks for also helping your student remember to remove and place shoes by the door.

Preschool fun: I love to see the students working together to solve a puzzle.  This class is just beginning to help one another and become a "sharing and caring" class.

Once finished, Chloe invited the rest of the class to "come and see" and celebrate the finishing of the school bus puzzle. 

Calendar review

Days of the Week
(Tune: "The Addams Family")

There's Sunday and there's Monday,
There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday,
There's Thursday and there's Friday,
And then there's Saturday. Days of the week. (clap, clap)

Days of the week. (clap, clap)
Days of the week. Days of the week.
Days of the week. (clap, clap)

Shapes:  We identified most of the major shapes as they appear on the bus; the door is a rectangle, the windows are squares, the wheels are circles, etc.  We had fun playing "I Spy" Shapes around our class room.

Our Class Bus Activity:  We had fun taking turns riding on our very own class bus and singing the song and acting out the movements in the song (after we read and discussed the book).

Books:

Show & Tell Day by Anne and Lizzy Rockwell

Preschool to the Rescue by Judy Sierra and Will Hillenbrand 

One Happy Classroom (Counting) by Charnan Simon and Rebecca McKillip Thornburgh 
Bus Driver by Nancy Poydar

The Wheels on the Bus (Raffi Songs to Read) by Raffi and Sylvia Wiskstrom
The Seals on the Bus by Lenny Hort and G. Brian Karas
The Wheels on the Bus; A First Little Golden Book

Song:

The Wheels on the Bus
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
round and round,
round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
all through the town.
The wipers on the bus go Swish, swish, swish;
Swish, swish, swish;
Swish, swish, swish.
The wipers on the bus go Swish, swish, swish,
all through the town.
The horn on the bus goes Beep, beep, beep;
Beep, beep, beep;
Beep, beep, beep.
The horn on the bus goes Beep, beep, beep,
all through the town..
The money on the bus goes, Clink, clink, clink;
Clink, clink, clink;
Clink, clink, clink.
The money on the bus goes, Clink, clink, clink,
all through the town.
The Driver on the bus says "Move on back,
move on back, move on back;"
The Driver on the bus says "Move on back",
all through the town.
The baby on the bus says "Wah, wah, wah;
Wah, wah, wah;
Wah, wah, wah".
The baby on the bus says "Wah, wah, wah",
all through the town.
The mommy on the bus says "Shush, shush, shush;
Shush, shush, shush;
Shush, shush, shush."
The mommy on the bus says "Shush, shush, shush"
all through the town.

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Substitute these lyrics also

The doors on the bus go open and shut.
The bell on the bus goes ding-ding-ding.
The lady on the bus says, "Get off my feet"...
The people on the bus say, "We had a nice ride"...
"Your name" on the bus says Let Me Off!

(See this website:http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/wheelsmp3.htm)
 More fun bus activities: http://besttoys4toddlers.com/home/wheels-on-the-bus-learning-activities/