- Opening - "A Tooty Ta" from Dance Like This by Mr. Al
- Number literacy activity - People At the Bus Stop (a counting and number literacy flannelboard written by Carol Hopkins)
Directions: Hand out a numbered person to each child. The children come place their person on the board when the bus stop called out matches the number on the person. If you have a large group, there can be multiple people at each bus stop. After each bus stop count the number of people on the bus.
Here comes the bus,
Driving down the street.
Stopping at bus stop number ______.
How many people are on the bus now?
- Book #1 - I Love Trucks! by Philemon Sturges, illustrated by Shari Halpern
- Stand-up activity - "Wheels On the Bus" action song from Six Little Ducks by Kimbo
- Sit down activity - Twinkle, Twinkle Traffic Light on a flannelboard (action fingerplay song to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star")
Twinkle, twinkle traffic light
Round the corner shining bright
Red means stop,
Green means go,
And yellow means go very slow.
Twinkle, twinkle traffic light
Round the corner shining bright.
- Book #2 - Five Trucks by Brian Floca
- Book #3 - Who Drives This? by Charles Reasoner (sliding surprise board book)
- Closing - Dance with scarves to the song "Silly Dance Contest" from Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes by Jim Gill
- Art experience - Create a traffic light with paper, scissors, glue, and crayons
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