STAGE 0 / LESSON 9: THE WHEELS ON THE BUS
Vocabulary: Mummy, Daddy, Baby
Bus, Doors, Wheels, Open/Close
Phrases: Who is this? (Mummy)!
What colour is the bus? Red!
Where is Daddy? Here.
LESSON PLAN
Song: The Wheels On The Bus
1. Show the bus flashcard and teach the vocabulary: "bus, wheels, doors, Mummy, Daddy, Baby"
2. Teach the phrases from the song while pointing at the flashcard and then doing the gestures.
"The wheels on the bus go round and round".
"The doors on the bus go open and close".
3. Sing the song with gestures. The end of the song speeds up, so speed up the gesture to match!
LESSON WORKSHEETS
ACTIVITY
Repeat an activity from a previous lesson, such as the animal finger puppets from Lesson 8:
You can buy animal finger puppets easily on the internet. Teach the names of a selection of the puppets before you hand them out to the students.
1. Say “where is the rabbit?” Students look around for the rabbit. The student who has the rabbit holds it up and everyone says “hello rabbit”. Repeat for all the animals.
2. Call out some actions.
“Animals up”.
“Animals down.”
“Bye bye”. Put the fingerpuppet behind your back.
“Hello”. Bring the fingerpuppet back.
“Animals on your… head. Animals on your…knee”. Repeat for several body parts (head, ear, shoulder, tummy, leg, knee, foot).
3. More actions. Use the phrase “Can you…”
“Can you dance?”
“Can you jump?”
“Can you run?”
4. Ask animals “how are you?” Teacher models this with their own finger puppet.
a) Face the puppet and say “how are you” to the puppet, while tapping it on the nose.
b) Have students do the same. Teacher’s puppet answers “I’m hungry.”
c) Teacher says “Oh! Are you hungry? Here you go!”
d) Teacher holds out hand and puppet eats from it. Students do the same.
e) OR, puppet answers “I’m sleepy”. Teacher says “the animals are sleepy!”
Put the animals on the floor, and stroke them as they go to sleep. You can sing a lullaby. After a minute or so, say “it’s time to wake up!” Have the students shout “wake up”. Puppets wake up!