Presenter Liz Kitchen with songs, rhymes and a story set about Gus and his bus.
Suggestions for use in the classroom
Listening for individual sounds
Listen all around: traffic noises in town. Individual sounds: car, plane, bell on bus. Liz invites listeners to join in making the differenttraffic sounds.
Rhyme/song
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 day long.
*The bell on the bus goes ding ding ding *
*The wipers on the bus go swish, swish swish *
The driver on the bus says “Any more fares?”
Help children to invent actions to go with each verse. Once they know the words and tune, turn it into a dance, doing the actions and singing the song as they move about.
Story - Gus and his fabulous bus
Once upon a noisy time… When the story is familiar, get children to help you create a ‘Fabulous Bus’ by positioning chairsappropriately and decorating them. Make masks for them to role-play the story.
Follow-up ideas
- Discuss road safety
- Set up a garage role-play area, with tools, funnels, etc, and (weather permitting) a car-wash
- Integrate appropriate environmental print, e.g. posters, appointments book for services, bills and receipts
- Role-play bus journeys, sitting together in a row with a bus conductor taking tickets (practise moving quickly, slowing down, stopping, starting, speeding up, controlling moving round); set up an obstacle course for large toys.
See the Teachers' Notes (pdf) below for more suggestions.
Song video: 'The wheels on the bus'
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