Naughty Bus

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Encourage children to recreate some of the scenes from the story using their own toys eg the tall buildings and traffic in London, the bus queue or in the garden (or park) even the baked bean scene if you can bear the mess! Children can retell parts of the story in their own words as they recreate these scenes. Makeyour own naughty bus adventure

I had a lovely mental picture of "The Naughty Bus" driving round the country collecting children from Naughty Steps and Naughty Chairs, etc all over the land. Don't know where it would be taking them though. Sorry... I'm losing it! Take a toy bus or another small toy vehicle off for adventures indoors and in the garden if you have one or the local park. Make a story with photos Computing/ICT - plan, direct and film your own 'Naughty Bus' (or Naughty *other form of transport*) story. You could add subtitles, music, narrate it. Use the YouTube link as a guide to help you.Wow Moments Slips - can be used to motivate children, doesn't have to be academic. May be see how many you can get in a day and give a reward? Compete with brothers/sisters? Helps to keep children (and parents) positive and help mental health and well being. Thinking about being kind and doing things for others. Read the book to children pausing to look closely at the pictures as you do. Children will enjoy hearing it more than once and joining in with the parts they remember. Talk about the book Science - plants - with the weather being nice, I thought it would be a good idea to have some things to do in/around/about the garden.

Common Exception Words - these are what Y1 weekly spellings are based on. However, I am aware that we are at the 'revision' stage of the year now and have covered them. So I have uploaded Y1 and Y2 words for you to look at and choose what is appropriate. Buses, travel, transport, adventures, local area, behavioural expectations, London, toys and the history of toys This is a three-sessionspelling seed for the book Naughty Bus by Jan Oke. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.

Age 3-5 Ayoung boy receives a toy bus as a presentand hasgreat fun exploring the world with his new toy which turns out to be quite a naughty bus – or is it the boy being naughty?!! This is a very unusual picture book with a story told through close up photography and mainly narrated bythe toy bus. Very cleverly recreating children’s imaginative play this book is great fun to share with your child and to use as a springboard for their own play ideas. Just when you thought one would never come along... This is a book for reading together with young children; designed to encourage conversation, visual literacy and imaginative play. Text Rationale: A two week unit of work based on The Naughty Bus designed for Year 1 but adaptable for Reception and Year 2. Our topic this term is based around the story 'Naughty Bus' by Jan Oke. I have uploaded a copy of the text and a YouTube link to read/watch the story. Ideas for this term could include:

English - Looking at stories in familiar settings and writing your own about your favourite toy. Looking at non fiction texts and non-chronological reports and creating your own. Writing an old toy information book. Remember to focus on capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, adjectives (describing words) and conjunctions (connecting words in a sentence) E.g The old teddy was sat on the dusty chair because the girl had left it there !This is based at the start of year 1, looking at simple sentence structure and nouns. There is 3 activities for each but expected to take more than 1 day on certain activities due to the time of the year. There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root. Coverage: Common Exception Words If sharing this story corresponds with a birthday or other reason for a present you might like to wrap up a toy bus for children to unwrap before introducing the book – a special story about a new toy. Read aloud English - write own naughty bus (or other form of transport!) story (focus on capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, adjectives and conjunctions e.g. The Naughty Bus raced towards the deep pond but suddenly stopped ! )