School Bus

Today we are talking about school buses! This morning the kids painted the milk cartons yellow to start making their school buses. During morning circle the kids continued the April pattern, skip counted and identified numbers 1-40. The kids reviewed the Sound Around Town and practiced the vowel circle and sliders. We read words that started with bu-. We blended bug, bus, but, bud, bun, and buz.

Our story today was "I'm Your Bus" by Marilyn Singer. Welcome to a day in the life of a school bus and his road buddies. Morning, noon, and nighttime, too, that golden four–wheeled friend is at your service. Ready to drive you to and from school safely. 'Cause he's your bus. And in between those pick–up and drop–off moments, your bus spends time with his friends, other vehicles who drive around town doing what they do best. Sweeping, zipping, parking, creeping. After reading the story we talked about what school buses have and what they can do. Buses are yellow and they have windows, a bus driver, doors and a stop sign.

For art today we continued making our school bus.  We needed to add 4 wheels to the bottom of the bus. The kids wrote the word "school" on a black strip of paper and glued it to both sides of the bus. Then we needed to add kids to the bus. The kids added all their friends in class!

For writing today the kids practiced writing lowercase "x." In their journals they wrote about something the learned about things that go on the road. While the kids waited for their turn they played "Pop the Pig" and "Zingo."

Everyone enjoy the beautiful weekend. Look around and see if you can find any construction...we will be learning about that next week!