Article and examples of instruction sheets - batod

CONTENTS:
Book – The Wheels on the Bus
Bus- With driver and 8 animals/ people.
The Story and Game:
• Read the book with your child. Use a sing song voice.
• Re read the story using actions as you sing along with the book.
• Introduce the bus with all the various animals and people. Make noises for
the animals after you see them and name them, along with the people.
• Use the bus to sing the song with the animals and people as props. Put as
much expression into this as possible, while encouraging your child to join in
both vocally and with the actions.
• Hide the animals and make the noise they might make before pulling them
out. (This is not a test – just leave it a second or two before showing your
child the animal).
• Make an animal sound and then show the wrong animal – make a big fuss
about being wrong.
• Follow your child’s ideas and choices and encourage them to do the story for
you. When rereading the book, try to get your child to anticipate ‘what comes
next’ Make a game of this. Give choices. Do you think it’s the wipers going
swish, swish, swish or the lights going flash, flash, flash
• Play counting games to count how many people/ animals are on the bus.
• Line up the animals and say the sound that the animal might make. See if
your child can select the appropriate animal. Move on to the name of the
animal once this is accomplished.
• When putting the animals away ask for one item at first e.g. ‘ Give me the
dog’. Move on to 2 items e.g. ‘Give me the dog and the giraffe.’ Increase to 3.
ENJOY!
Please do not leave your child unsupervised with the listening box or its
contents. Thank you.