Music

• Tone Colour is the specific sound quality of a voice or instrument. What sounds can you make with your voice? Shouting, singing, whispering, humming, whistling. Experiment with found sounds to create: wheels turning, window wipers, a horn, doors opening and closing, babies crying, bus driver’s voice.
• Play the instrumental version of the song and invite individual children to sing a verse each.

Drama

• Create a bus scene, line up chairs in a way that resembles a bus (two chairs on each side). Each child has a set character e.g. an old man, a business woman, a baby.
• Have a roving reporter who asks the characters questions e.g. where are you going? Where have you been? How old are you?
• Role-play a situation where you are rushing to catch a bus…

Dance

• Create body movements to match the sound effects of the song e.g. beep, beep, beep- twirl around; babies crying – shake entire body; wipers – sway body from side to side etc.
• Clapping the beat – students clap to a beat set by the teacher, then tap knees, tap shoulders, tap the floor. Then try walking the same beat. You can vary it using other forms of locomotion.

Visual Art

• Draw or paint a bus.

Literacy

• Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning “Do it, see it and hear it!”

Print out the song PDF

• Read the song lyrics – ask children a variety of questions.
• Re-read the song lyrics and ask children to join in.
• Recognise and use a variety of punctuation when reading. “ ” ! ? . ,
• Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
• Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
• Word study – phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.