Beep, Beep Goes the Bus
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Bus Unit Study
One of the most popular themes for preschoolers is transportation. Listen to the sound of a bus going beep, beep, beep. Hear the roar of the bus as it pulls up to the bus stop. Notice the hiss of the air coming from the brakes.
With their bright colors and flashing lights, buses are fascinating for young children. This lens features lots of activities for preschoolers.
From counting passengers to singing The Wheels on the Bus, you will find dozens of ideas to keep your preschooler happy, busy and learning.
Climb aboard the bus to learning...
With their bright colors and flashing lights, buses are fascinating for young children. This lens features lots of activities for preschoolers.
From counting passengers to singing The Wheels on the Bus, you will find dozens of ideas to keep your preschooler happy, busy and learning.
Climb aboard the bus to learning...
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Contents at a Glance
Bus
Chris L Demarest
If your preschooler is obsessed with buses, cars, trucks and trains. Bus by Chris L. Demarest is the book for you. With simple words, written in large print, a rhyming text and sounds to be repeated over and over this book is sure to be one of your child's favorites.
Bus comes in a board book edition which is ideal for the amount of use this book will receive but it also comes in a new format which makes it possible to keep your child happily reading no matter where you are.
- Bus
- MobiStories are narrated digital children's books with illustrations and music.
Distract your restless child
Iphones put reading in the hands of children.
Photo Credit: Toddler Temper Tantrum on WPClipart
Photo Credit: Happy Toddler on WPClipart
When your day is hectic and you need to get an errand done, your toddler is restless and you need to focus for just a few minutes your iPhone can read to your child. Not only will it keep him/her busy but with stories like Bus, they will also be working on those pre-reading skills needed later on in kindergarten.
- The number one reason to own an iPhone
- You can load iPhone with simple stories and then when you are trying to have a meal in a restaurant or fly on a plane with a rambunctious 2 year old...
Reading to Your Child
Photo Credit: The Toddler Dance
on InTheFastLane, Creative Commons
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends daily reading to children beginning by six months of age. Reading to children is a large part of a preschooler's education.
- Learning Activities and Choosing Curricula for VPK Education Programs
- The Florida VPK Education Program.
Snuggle and Read
When my son was young, buses and trucks were his favorite toys. He also loved to cuddle up with the Bus book by Chris L. Demarest. He even wanted to sleep with them.
One day I discovered a stuffed bus with little people that could go on and off the bus. We spent many hours playing with the bus and reading a favorite story, like Bus book.
There were times, however, when I needed to go to the lawyer's office, stand in line at the bank, or drive to my older daughter's ballet classes when I needed to keep him amused.
I wish that MobiStories had been there for him. There is nothing like a good book to help calm a restless child.
After you have read lots of bedtime stories here is a bus that your child can sleep with.
One day I discovered a stuffed bus with little people that could go on and off the bus. We spent many hours playing with the bus and reading a favorite story, like Bus book.
Photo Credit: Reading Together
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There were times, however, when I needed to go to the lawyer's office, stand in line at the bank, or drive to my older daughter's ballet classes when I needed to keep him amused.
Photo Credit: Bus
on PhotoBucket
I wish that MobiStories had been there for him. There is nothing like a good book to help calm a restless child.
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After you have read lots of bedtime stories here is a bus that your child can sleep with.
Bus Track Words
Preschool Educational activities to extend the Mobistories learning experiences:
Capitalize on your child's love of Buses, Trains and other vehicles by teaching the letters using the toys he or she loves.
Use some wooden Brio Train Tracks to form the letters in the word bus. Now encourage your child to drive the bus on the track while making the sound of the letter.
Soon you may find that your child will start to pick out the letters when reading the word Bus.
Photo Credit: Train Track Letters
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Use some wooden Brio Train Tracks to form the letters in the word bus. Now encourage your child to drive the bus on the track while making the sound of the letter.
Soon you may find that your child will start to pick out the letters when reading the word Bus.
B is for Bus
Printable Educational Activities for Kindergarteners
Coloring helps your child practice fine motor coordination and these coloring pages are not only related to MobiStories Bus Book but also encourages practice in writing the letter b.
- B is for Bus words
- Color pictures that begin with b.
- Letter B practice
- Blue, bus, blues
- Vehicles
- Color the vehicles with words under them.
- I Like to Ride... Book, A Printable Book - EnchantedLearning.com
- I Like to Ride... Book, A Printable Book. Print out a I Like to Ride... Book early reader book.
- Bus Coloring Page
- The ABC's of Traffic Safety
- Art and drawing is often used to teach practical lessons to young children. Before they can read, elementary students learn through pictures. The colouring book, such as this one, is a useful tool to convey simple messages to children, while also teaching them hand and eye co-ordination, and basic d
Geoboards Spell Bus
Geoboards were originally intended for teaching geometry but teachers and children have descovered that they can also be used to spell words and make pictures.
Your child can use one board to make a Bus and three others to write each of the letters in the word bus.
Geoboards can not only be used to make the letters in the word Bus but are also a fun way to help young children understand geometry as well.
- Geoboard Letters
- Photos and ideas of kindergarten literacy activities or centers from Little Giraffes.
- Geo-Board Activity
- Geo Board Activities for children.
Busstop for Geoboards
Wooden Geoboards are sturdy and have a natural feel. Plastic ones come in a variety of colors break easily.
The larger number of pegs allows for more designs.
Bus Words are Everywhere
A Library in You Pocket
Studies have shown that there is a relationship between students becoming good readers and the number of books to which these students have access.
As you drive, walk or ride the bus, watch for words related to the Bus book. You will be surprised at how soon your child will begin to recognize them.
Now it is easy to take your child's favorite books with you. With MobiStories you can have a library in your pocket.
- Advocacy Committee | Wisconsin State Reading Association
- Studies have shown that students need to be in print rich environments. Students' reading achievement is highly related to the number of books to which they have access. Good readers are most likely to enjoy access to all of these: school library, classroom library, public library, and home library (Krashen, 1998).
Bus Stops
First Stop, People Meet
Bus
Piperberg, Cheryl
Buy at AllPosters.com
Transportation is a common theme for preschool through the early grades. This activity can be adapted for children of various abilities.
Lay down a rug with roads and make bus stops from wooden blocks.
Put wooden people at each of the bus stops. Talk with your child about who each of the people are. It can be fun to name them after people in your family. You could write the first letter of each person's name on the wooden dolls to help with learning initial consonants.
Talk about who the bus meets and picks up at the first stop, second stop, etc until the last stop.
You can write words on the blocks that come from the MobiStories Bus Book to reinforce the words they see. The more times they see the same word the quicker they will learn to read it.
1. At first just write the word bus on each of the bus stops.
2. When your child starts to recognize the word bus, you might add the word stop so that each sign says "bus stop".
3. Later on you might make one bus stop that says "first stop" the way it its written in the MobiStories Bus Book.
Do these steps very slowly, watching your child's progress day by day to becoming an avid reader.
A print saturated environment is recommended to for prereaders, preschoolers and beginning readers..
Bus, Train and Car Puzzle
More educational activites for your preschooler
School Bus Puzzle
Children love to do puzzles. Adding words to the puzzle pieces increases the number of times your child will see words such as Bus. Having a print saturated environment has been proven to help children learn to read.
Write the name of the vehicles on the back of each vehicle and in the space it goes to reinforce the words your child is learning to read.
As you put together the puzzle ask which vehicle begins with the sound "b" and have them point to the letter b at the beginning of the word bus.
The next time he reads the Bus book on your iPod he'll recognize the word bus.
Double Decker Bus
Preschoolers need to see print everywhere.
After playing with the bus and the alphabetical animals older preschoolers might be ready to learn these sentences:
The alligator got on the bus and the bus went fast.
The fox got on the bus and the bus went fast.
The zebra got on the bus and the bus went fast.
Just change the animal's name for each sentence. You might write out the sentence one time leaving room to put the animal in the blank space for the animal's name.
Later on write out two or three separate sentences and help your child figure out which animal is being talked about by matching the letters with the words on the back of the animals.
- DOUBLE DECKER ABC ALPHABET BUS SHAPE SORTER with Animals
- This Big Alphabet Bus will keep you busy! Large Shape Sorting Double Decker Bus with 26 animals. Great educational toy, beginning with A for Alligator and ending with Z for Zebra. Animals are painted on one side with the other side showing their name. Age 3+
Double-Decker, Double-Decker, Double-Decker Bus
Preschoolers love these educational books.
Watch an ingenious young girl build a double-decker bus from cast away junk in the street. She uses imagination and ingenuity and soon has all the neighborhood children joining in.
The story is told using only 10 words repeated over and over in a fun way that invites children to begin looking for the words and soon be able to read the book themselves.
Both the bus and the book fit easily into your pocket book beside your iPhone so that you are always ready with something to amuse your child when you need to focus your attention elsewhere.
People Meet
These are people you might meet when traveling by Bus. It is fun to name each one. You might write their names on them or on necklaces around their necks. Give them a house and an address so that your child can match their names with the names on their houses.
- Block People
- Block People represent a cross section of our population including: Differing Abilities, White Family, East Asian Family, and Black Family.
Bus and Transportation Card Games
Because your child has been listening to his or her MobiStories Bus book so often, learning the words written on Transportation card will be easy.
LEARNING CARDS TRANSPORTATION PHOTOGRAPHIC
LEARNING CARDS TRANSPORTATION PHOTOGRAPHIC
- Beep, Beep Clipboard Cutouts
- These cutouts of vehicles would make great matching cards.
1. Make two copies.
2. Cut out and glue one picture on each card.
3. Write the name of the vehicle under each picture.
4. Teach your child how to play first Concentration and later Go Fish with these cards. - Edspecially4U - Educational Resources
- An enchanting way to sing the favorite children's song "wheels on the bus". Your child will love singing along to the song using a hands on and visual approach. Each song comes with the words of the song.
The pictures can be placed on the windows of the bus as a visual reminder of the order of the verses, for learning to read left to right and to help children learn sight words from the song: Wheels on the Bus.
Park the Bus
Match the bus to the Right Garage
Match the number on the bus with the number on the garage. Here is a fun way for preschoolers to practice matching numbers.
Turn playtime into learning time with this fun Park the Bus game.
1. Gather all the matchbox buses your child has lying around.
Write a number on each bus.
2. Put a number on each parking space to match the numbers on the buses.
3. Help your child park the buses in their spots.
If you use tape for attaching the numbers you can easily change the numbers.
Variation:
1. Label the parking spaces with color words.
2. Write the color word on the bus in black.
3. Help your child match the color word on the bus with the color word on the parking space.
Turn playtime into learning time with this fun Park the Bus game.
1. Gather all the matchbox buses your child has lying around.
Write a number on each bus.
2. Put a number on each parking space to match the numbers on the buses.
3. Help your child park the buses in their spots.
If you use tape for attaching the numbers you can easily change the numbers.
Variation:
1. Label the parking spaces with color words.
2. Write the color word on the bus in black.
3. Help your child match the color word on the bus with the color word on the parking space.
Beep, Beep Goes the Bus Game
A Game of Sounds
On an long car trip:
Make up a sound effect for things you see and say it each time you pass one.
For example: you might decide that the sound Say "beep-beep" when you see a bus.
Say "honk honk."when you see a truck.
Say "Ooo-ooo" when you see a train.
Variation:
You can add animal sounds for animals
Say "splish splash" for rivers or ponds
Say "ring ring" (doorbells) for houses
Lots of fun.
Make up a sound effect for things you see and say it each time you pass one.
For example: you might decide that the sound Say "beep-beep" when you see a bus.
Say "honk honk."when you see a truck.
Say "Ooo-ooo" when you see a train.
Variation:
You can add animal sounds for animals
Say "splish splash" for rivers or ponds
Say "ring ring" (doorbells) for houses
Lots of fun.
- Car Games for Kids on a Long
- Sound Game
Time to Calm Down
Buy an In-Car TV
Roof Mount LCD Monitor with
Built-In DVD Player
When all the adults are starting to get a headache and it's time to calm down, consider handing your child a book that reads to your child. Bus is my nephew's favorite story. He loves to have it read to him over and over. Now I can play it on my car's DVD player and the miles just fly by.
“Mobistories can sooth a restless child.”
Fisher Price Little People Ride the Bus
How many Little People can ride the bus?
As each Little People person gets on the bus talk about how many are already on the bus, how many are getting on the bus and how many that is all together riding on the bus.
This activity will help children eventually understand the concept of addition. Older children could pretend to be the supervisor in charge and write down the number sentences.
WARNING: Not for children under 3.
As each Little People person gets on the bus talk about how many are already on the bus, how many are getting on the bus and how many that is all together riding on the bus.
This activity will help children eventually understand the concept of addition. Older children could pretend to be the supervisor in charge and write down the number sentences.
WARNING: Not for children under 3.
Fisherprice Little People Cars
Buses help conserve energy.
Most people drive to work by themselves in a car just like the one person that fits in each Fisher Price Little People cars.
Help children compare the number of cars needed to carry people to work in comparison to the number that a bus can take.
Comparisons like this will help children later in understanding division concepts.
WARNING: Not for children under 3.
Write a Bus Story
Helping your child write his or her own story is a wonderful way to start them on the road to reading. By using their own words, children quickly can read the story back to you and begin the process of recognizing letters, sounds, words and sentences.
After reading the Bus story by Chris L. Demarest:
1. Talk with your child about all the things you heard the bus.
2. Help your child to dictate predictable sentences onto sentence strips.
4. Draw simple pictures to help your child remember what each sentence says.
3. Put the sentence strips in order and re-read them with your child.
For example:
I hear the horn go beep, beep, beep.
I hear the brakes go hiss, hiss, hiss.
I hear the wipers go swish, swish, swish.
Educators use sentence strips and charts to help preschoolers and beginning readers learn to read from left to right and top to bottom. Beginning readers can start to rearrange sentence strips and then put them back in order.
After reading the Bus story by Chris L. Demarest:
1. Talk with your child about all the things you heard the bus.
2. Help your child to dictate predictable sentences onto sentence strips.
4. Draw simple pictures to help your child remember what each sentence says.
3. Put the sentence strips in order and re-read them with your child.
For example:
I hear the horn go beep, beep, beep.
I hear the brakes go hiss, hiss, hiss.
I hear the wipers go swish, swish, swish.
Educators use sentence strips and charts to help preschoolers and beginning readers learn to read from left to right and top to bottom. Beginning readers can start to rearrange sentence strips and then put them back in order.
- Vehicle Sort
- We sorted our vehicles many ways. Here they are
graphed by where they travel. - Car Songs, Truck Songs, Train Songs, School Bus Songs, Machines Songs
- Not for boys only, these transportation songs teach about trucks, cars, tractors, trains and other machines.
- Land Transportation Theme Preschool Activities and Crafts
- Land transportation theme preschool printable activities, crafts, lesson plans and coloring pages suitable for toddlers, preschool and kindergarten.
Sing and Spell the Bus Words
"Car, Bus, Van" song(Tune: Jingle Bells)
C-A-R, C-A-R that's how you spell car
B-U-S, B-U-S that's how you spell bus
V-A-N, V-A-N that's how you spell van
Transportation helps us, I hope you understand!
Sing the song several times so they feel successful and can spell the words.
Egg Carton School Bus
All children love to paint and create. This bus project is easy enough for even very young children.
While the paint is drying you can help your child make pictures of people to ride on the bus. Talk about the people you meet as in the Bus book.
When the bus is dry, start adding the people. Make up stories about them. Have them greet eachother and talk about why they are riding the bus today.
Some of the passengers may need to get off. You could talk about where they are going and what they will do there.
This is a lesson not only in art but also in Social Studies and works on the listening and thinking skills involved in reading comprehension.
- Egg Carton School Bus
- This is a simple craft for preschool children about to begin school.
Bus Pattern Math
Make a pattern and line up the buses
Make cards with pictures of your child's favorite bus Bus Book.
Write simple words, phrases or sentences under each one such as
  yellow bus  blue bus
After you child gets the ideas of the ABAB pattern try another one such as:
Which is an AABAAB pattern.
Patterns are the basis of all mathematics and this activity will start your child on the route to higher level math skills.
Bus Literacy Bag
Literacy Bags extend the learning that goes on in schools and daycares and offer fun educational activities that parents can do with their children at home. Borrow the bag, read the stories and write about your experiences in the accompanying journal.
The Gift of Time
Bus from MobiStories
MobiStories can give a busy Mom or Dad the Gift of Time.
This year with the economy making life even more difficult for families with young children, MobiStories offers to give Busy Moms and Dads the gift of time. They don't want too much. Children are too important but a good educational story read to them while Mom or Dad answers the phone, makes a Christmas present, or focuses on an adult conversation may be just the perfect present this year.
This year with the economy making life even more difficult for families with young children, MobiStories offers to give Busy Moms and Dads the gift of time. They don't want too much. Children are too important but a good educational story read to them while Mom or Dad answers the phone, makes a Christmas present, or focuses on an adult conversation may be just the perfect present this year.
MobiStories Bus
Mobistories are downloadable stories that can be played on your computer, iPhone, iPod, PSP, Zune, DVD player and most any other digital device. You can download Bus or several of our digital books for your child to watch and listen to.
- MobiStories: Downloadable Digital Books for Children
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Look Who's Blogging about Bus
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Bus by Chris L. DemarestMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
If your preschooler is obsessed with buses, cars, trucks and trains. Bus by Chris L. Demarest is the book for you. With simple words, written in large print, a rhyming text and sounds to be repeated over and over this book is sure to be one of your child's favorites.
Bus comes in a board book edition which is ideal for the amount of use this book will receive but it also comes in a new narrated digital children's book format which makes it possible to keep your child happily reading no matter where you are.
Beep, Beep Goes the Bus
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Send us your stories about the unsung heroes who keep your kids safe and out of harm's way. Or read what others have sent.
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Talk about the Bus
MobiStories read to your child when you can't.
Nothing can replace snuggling up and reading a great book but for a few minutes, while you talk to the bank manager, you can snuggle and allow Mobistories to read to your child.
Have you ever let your child use your iPhone, ipod or cellphone to distract them at the bank, doctor's office or in a corporate setting?
Would you consider MobiStories such as Bus an acceptable and educational way to distract your child?
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mbgphoto
Feb 6, 2010 @ 6:02 pm | delete
- Excellent lens! I remember my kids playing with those Fischer Price little people vehicles. Lots of good memories.
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Evelyn_Saenz
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- My children loved putting the Little People on and off the bus. They are great for kids who don't put toys in their mouths.
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skiesgreen
Jan 31, 2010 @ 8:20 pm | delete
- What a great happy, inspiring lens. Once again you have done a great job and I am lensrolling and featuring this lens on my 'educating young minds, which got a purple star award. Great job
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Evelyn_Saenz
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- Thank you so much. It is amazing what children can learn when they are happy and active.
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Kids Video
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- Very Interesting Lens!!!
http://www.sillybus.net/
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- Great lens for parents of preschoolers!
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tandemonimom
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- Another splendid resource from Evelyn! Welcome to The Homeschooling Group!
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SaraMu
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- Wonderful lens! And cute book, too.
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- Thank you for joining "The Emporium"
It's great to have such a quality lens as a member
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JaguarJulie
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- Evelyn, this is another of your adorable lenses -- that would make such a sweet little booklet for children.
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Pastiche
Mar 7, 2009 @ 8:37 am | delete
- My 2 year old grandson rides the school bus twice a day with his mom who's the bus driver.Sometimes he gets impatient - I'm recommending the iPhone stories idea to her to help him enjoy riding as her sidekick a bit more.
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vanidiana
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- Love your lens! *****
My daughter (will be 3 this Feb) just loves bus too!
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- great lens. i appreciate the structure of this lens and your creativity. this bus journey is very enjoyable to me.
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- Love this lens. Your lenses always teach and inspire me!
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- I just lensrolled this clever lens to:
Books that didn't change my life but that I love
Miss Poutine's Favorite Quotes Tome 1
The Not So Humble Potato
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poutine
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- That bus made with the egg carton is such a smart idea.
My 2 little sons used to love to play with their Fisher Price bus and
the little people.
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- Of course, there is nothing better than cuddlying up and reading but when you need just a few minutes to answer the phone or talk with the doctor MobiStories would be a nice educational way to entertain your child.
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- Like the buses. Was once a driver of buses in the snow.
One day I heard lots of meowing every time the bus stop.
on Investigation found a small black kitten sitting above the back wheels.
Rescues him and took that beautiful cat home with me. A beautiful Kitten growing into maturity.
Great Lens Promoted you to Five plus *****
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Pastiche
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- Here comes the bus! Love this lens; I sent it to my school-bus-driver daughter. 5*s
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spirituality
Oct 21, 2008 @ 5:48 am | delete
- Great lens as usual. I wonder: is there any evidence on whether being read to in person is better than being read to by tape or iphone? I mean, don't get me wrong: sounds like a great idea. But does it replace cuddling up together to be read to?
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