Journey by means of the group and luxuriate in a enjoyable read-aloud with this ebook exercise celebrating a variation of The Wheels on the Bus. This ebook and exercise would work nicely with a theme or concentrate on college, transportation, neighborhoods and communities, or for starting of the college 12 months.
The Wheels on the Uh-Oh! Literacy Exercise
The abilities lined on this exercise embody:
- listening responsively to a ebook
- figuring out and sequencing story particulars
- retelling a narrative
- recognizing environmental print
The E-book: The Wheels on the Uh-Oh!
Collect the scholars collectively and present them the entrance of the ebook, The Wheels on the Uh-Oh! Learn the title and ask the scholars what may occur if there was an “uh-oh” with the bus. Concepts might embody operating out of fuel, the bus will get misplaced, or there’s a flat tire. Encourage the preschoolers to suppose and record various kinds of “uh-ohs.”
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Ask the scholars to hear for the “uh-oh” second and to the touch their ear after they understand it. Start to learn the story to the youngsters stopping and acknowledging the “uh-oh” second. Then proceed to learn for pure enjoyment. All through the week, you possibly can reread the ebook a number of occasions to work on completely different literacy abilities corresponding to sequencing, alliteration, and trigger and impact.
On one repeated studying, you possibly can emphasize sequencing and let the scholars inform you the order of occasions within the story.
Throughout one other studying of the ebook, concentrate on alliteration within the story. Take a number of phrases from the story corresponding to “click on, clack, click on” and “grumble, grumble, groan” emphasizing the start sound of every phrase. Invite the scholars to call different phrases with the identical starting sounds.
Across the City Neighborhood Exercise
Supplies Wanted
- The Wheels on the Uh-Oh! ebook by Sue Tarsky
- Poster board, white sheet, or plastic bathe curtain liner
- Everlasting markers
- Toy vehicles, vehicles, and buses
The children will take pleasure in enjoying this exercise with a companion or small group. Add the exercise to the block space or dramatic play space.
Setting Up the Exercise
Create your city map for the exercise on a chunk of poster board, white sheet, or a bathe curtain liner. Add landmarks out of your group to the map and many roads.
Collect a wide range of toy vehicles, a bus, development automobiles, and any free tires from damaged automobiles. Add our environmental print street indicators to bump up the literacy worth of the exercise.
Beginning the Exercise
Collect the youngsters and describe the assets you might have for the scholars to discover.
Invite the scholars to retell the Wheels on the Uh-Oh! utilizing the props. Additionally, invite the scholars to explain their travels as they play and transfer the automobiles by means of the city.
Variations and Modifications
1. Add a dot sticker labeled with a letter to every car so as to add a bit alphabet follow into the play.
2. Tape footage of native eating places or different enterprise indicators onto blocks or containers and embody these within the play to work on strengthening environmental print. Preschoolers can use these indicators as billboards or buildings.
3. Embrace books with different variations of the Wheels on the Bus for the scholars to take pleasure in. Evaluate and distinction the completely different variations. Or learn different books about buses.
4. Go to the world the place the scholars are working and describe their play utilizing descriptive language to construct their vocabulary. For instance, “I see you’re driving your automotive north on Park St.”
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