Wheels On the Bus Preschool Storytime

Storytime for 3 to 5 year olds:

• Opening - "A Tooty Ta" from Dance Like This by Mr. Al

• Number literacy activity flannelboard - 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 - Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems

• Stand-up activity - "Wheels On the Bus" action song from Six Little Ducks by Kimbo

• Activity - Twinkle, Twinkle Traffic Light (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 - The Little School Bus by Margery Cuyler, illustrated by Bob Kolar

• Book #3 - The Bus for Us by Suzanne Bloom 

• 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 - Cut and glue black circle wheels and blue rectangle windows onto a yellow paper bus outline