Naughty Bus

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English - Looking at stories in familiar settings and writing your own about your favourite toy. Looking at non fiction texts and non-chronological reports and creating your own. Writing an old toy information book. Remember to focus on capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, adjectives (describing words) and conjunctions (connecting words in a sentence) E.g The old teddy was sat on the dusty chair because the girl had left it there ! English - write own naughty bus (or other form of transport!) story (focus on capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, adjectives and conjunctions e.g. The Naughty Bus raced towards the deep pond but suddenly stopped ! ) 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! Children can retell parts of the story in their own words as they recreate these scenes. Makeyour own naughty bus adventure Wow Moments Slips - can be used to motivate children, doesn't have to be academic. May be see how many you can get in a day and give a reward? Compete with brothers/sisters? Helps to keep children (and parents) positive and help mental health and well being. Thinking about being kind and doing things for others.

This is especially fun if children haven’t been on a bus journey before. Children could draw a picture of themselves on the bus after your trip. Talk together about what they noticed and remember about the bus. Find out more Sing a song about a bus Just when you thought one would never come along... This is a book for reading together with young children; designed to encourage conversation, visual literacy and imaginative play. Text Rationale:

This is based at the start of year 1, looking at simple sentence structure and nouns. There is 3 activities for each but expected to take more than 1 day on certain activities due to the time of the year.

A two week unit of work based on The Naughty Bus designed for Year 1 but adaptable for Reception and Year 2. Take close up photos together of the bus in different places, inside and out. Ifpossible print themand make a book ofyour naughty busphotos together.Ask your child to tell you about each photo and scribe their words as captions to gowith the pictures. Alternatively you could look atdigital photos together as a slide show or makeaphotostory with them. Sing a song Computing/ICT - plan, direct and film your own 'Naughty Bus' (or Naughty *other form of transport*) story. You could add subtitles, music, narrate it. Use the YouTube link as a guide to help you. Below isan animation of the song ‘Wheels on the Bus’ See l ovemybooks ideas for sharing The Wheels on the Bus 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. Read aloudScience - 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. Buses, travel, transport, adventures, local area, behavioural expectations, London, toys and the history of toys Our topic this term is based around old and new toys. I have uploaded some links to Youtube with stories that children might like. Ideas for this term could include: What’s more, this bus writing template is available in tons of great options to suit every need. For the more confident writers in your class, it comes in fully lined and narrow lined versions, giving them lots of writing space to express their ideas. It even comes in an editable version that you can change in any way you like.

Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning. Phonics - I have included all the sheets with sounds on right from the beginning of Reception to the end of Year 1. Some of you might find it helpful to 'assess' where your child is or any gaps that are missing. Our topic this term is based around the story 'Naughty Bus' by Jan Oke. I have uploaded a copy of the text and a YouTube link to read/watch the story. Ideas for this term could include: If you also type in 'Geraldine the Giraffe' or 'Mr Thorne does phonics' in YouTube there are some great phonics videos here. Four complete English units of work designed for Year 1 but easily adaptable for Reception or Year 2. Includes lesson powerpoints, differentiated resources and planning documents.Inside this resource, you’ll find a fun bus writing template in portrait orientation. Featuring colourful illustrations of a London bus, as well as plenty of space for children to write and draw pictures, this template will spark children’s imaginations during a range of writing tasks. For instance, your pupils could use it to write a short story, a poem or even an account of a trip they went on! This book is FAB. 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. I love it and, in fact will dig it out for some of my children next week.