If you also type in 'Geraldine the Giraffe' or 'Mr Thorne does phonics' in YouTube there are some great phonics videos here. 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.

The text has links to toys, transport, the history of toys and provides opportunities for discussions around behavioural expectations.Four complete English units of work designed for Year 1 but easily adaptable for Reception or Year 2. Share the joys of bus and train rides by reading You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus, Naughty Bus and The Train Ride. 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.

Alternatively you could look atdigital photos together as a slide show or makeaphotostory with them. Invite children to select their favourite and to use because to provide a reason for their opinion, e. Ask your child to tell you about each photo and scribe their words as captions to gowith the pictures.It was far more successful than I expected and his teacher was pleasantly surprised when he took it in to show her. Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. The text mimics a child’s descriptive dialogue as he plays, switching between the words of the bus and the child himself.

story (focus on capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, adjectives and conjunctions e. Thanks for letting us know :) You might also like to use the following colouring resources as cool-down or quiet-time activities: https://www.We’ve set up a few of the scenes at home with our toys and he uses his own red bus to tell the story. A two week unit of work based on The Naughty Bus designed for Year 1 but adaptable for Reception and Year 2. Talk about what is happening in some of the scenes in the story eg How do the people at the bus stop feel when the bus doesn’t stop? With so many great opportunities and uses, we hope that you’re on board with this wonderful bus-themed resource! 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’.

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! I had a lovely mental picture of "The Naughty Bus" driving round the country collecting children from Naughty Steps and Naughty Chairs, etc all over the land. The bus has a multitude of adventures, including speeding through a plate of beans and falling into the garden pond. Explore other forms of transport and maps and use personal experiences to help create a recount or directions for a toy bus. 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.just to let you all know, this morning (Monday 20th April) I sent a ParentHub message about the online resource 'Times Table Rock Stars'. This is a book for reading together with young children; designed to encourage conversation, visual literacy and imaginative play. This will be based on the local area and will involve children captioning photos of the bus up to no good in other settings. Science - plants - with the weather being nice, I thought it would be a good idea to have some things to do in/around/about the garden.