Design for Learning

Instructor: Robertson
Lesson Title: All About the Bus
Curriculum Area: Transportation

Grade Level/Cooperating Teacher: Pre-K

Date: October 16, 2015
Estimated Time: 60 minutes

Standards Connection:
3.3 Connect new vocabulary with prior educational experiences.
2.1 Express self through music and movement.
Learning Objective(s):
When asked what each type of bus does, children will be able to respond with 80% accuracy.
Learning Objective(s) stated in kid-friendly language:
This whole week youve been learning about different types of transportation right? Well, today
we are going to learn about all different types of buses and even sing a song about a bus.
Evaluation of Learning Objective(s): A question will be asked about each type of bus. The
children will answer individually. Proficient students will get all but one of the bus questions
correct.
Engagement:
Children will be on the carpet from circle time. All right kids lets head over to the table and sit
down in your seat. We are going to learn about our last form of transportation for the week. Kids
will move to chairs around table. Once everyone is settledWhat have we been learning about
all week? Does anyone remember? Yesterday, you learned about airplanes and the day before
that was cars. All of that is called what? Transportation! Thats right! Thats a big word isnt it?
Can anyone guess what our last type of transportation is going to be?
We are going to play a game to try and figure out what our last form of transportation is for the
week. The way this game works is I have dashes for the number of letters. There are four words
that you are trying to guess. The way you guess is you will each get to guess a letter one at a
time. If the letter is in the words then I will write it in, if its not then I will draw one body part to
make up a man. Once the man is all drawn then the game is over. The goal is to try and guess all
the write letters that go in the words before you make up the man. This game is called hangman. I
tried to explain it the best way I could, but how about we try one with just one word first so we
can figure out how to play for a practice round. Teacher plays hangman with the word dog. The
children will get the feel for the game with this simple round. If there are any questions she will
address them and play another practice round if necessary. After the practice rounds, the class will
play hangman with the words All About the Bus. Once the game is over.
So what do you think we are talking about today? Thats right! The bus!
Teacher pulls out a toy yellow school bus. Do you know what a bus is? You do? Yes, Jimmy rides
on the bus every morning! Good Job, Peter. What are your other ideas about what a bus is? Yes,
it is sort of like a car. Well, today we are going to be learning about all different types of buses,
not just school buses. Lets pass around this school bus first, so you can look at it closely. Teacher
lets children pass the toy bus around so that each child can look for about ten seconds then she
puts the bus in front of her so the children may refer back to it visually during the lesson.
Learning Design:

I. Teaching:
Children will remain in their seats during teaching time.
I have a book with me that it called, All About the Bus! Teacher pulls out book and shows
to children. Look at our bus book, how many pictures do you see, Jimmy? 1,2,3. Good job
counting and listening. What kind of bus is this? (teacher points to school bus). Yes, that
is a school bus! Do you all know what these other two buses are? No, they arent school
buses. We are going to find out in our book! Everyone gets a picture or two to put in our

book along the way. We have to listen carefully so we know when our picture is supposed
to go in the book. Teacher passes out Velcro pictures. All right, lets see what our book
says about buses.
Opens to first page and reads. This is a School Bus. The school bus takes children to
school in the mornings and then back home when school ends. Who did we say rode
the bus in the mornings? Thats right! Jimmy does! Jimmy do you like riding the school
bus? Its fun? Oh great! Reads second page. The school bus has a school bus driver,
multiple wheels, and a stop sign so cars stop when the children get off the bus. Who has
a wheel? Yes, Carol and Fred! Okay, Carol can you put one of the wheels on? Great job!
Fred can you put the other wheel on? Yay! What does a wheel do? Yes, thats right it
spins around to make the car go. What shape is your wheel? Thats right it is a circle.
What about you, Jimmy, do you have the bus driver? Awesome! Put it on. Thank you!
What does a bus driver do? Any ideas? Yes, he drives the bus. Have you ever talked to a
bus driver? Tell me about it! Who has the stop sign? Yes, Peter! Go ahead and put it on.
Have you ever seen a stop sign before? What are you supposed to do when you see a stop
sign? Thats right your supposed to stop? Are you supposed to just let your car almost
stop? Or do you come to a complete stop where your car doesnt move at all? Thats
rightits supposed to be where your car stops moving at all! Why do you think school
buses have stop signs? Hmmm I bet its to get cars to stop so that the children can cross
the street to get to their houses. What do you think? Turns page. Reads next page. This is
a city bus. A city bus drives people to and from different bus stops throughout their city.
Carol can you put your picture of the city bus on this city bus? Great job! A city bus has a
bus driver, too. Do we have a city bus that stops around our school? Yeah, I havent seen
one either but I bet there is one near here. Have you seen one anywhere? Reads next
page. A person riding the city bus has to buy a bus pass before they get on. Student, lets
put your bus pass on this bus pass! Nicely done. Why do you think we need a bus pass?
Any ideas? Well, its so that the bus driver can keep track of who has bought a ticket to be
able to ride on the bus. Have you or your parents ever had a bus pass before? This is
what a real bus pass looks like. Teacher pulls out a real buss pass to show the children.
You may pass it around quickly before we move onto the next page. Teacher lets children
pass around bus pass. Teacher reads next page. This is a private bus. People sometimes
rent them when they need to get large groups of people from place to place. Who has
heard of the word private? It means no one else can use it or see itit is private.
Someone pays money to get a private bus so that only the people they want on that bus
can go on that bus. Do you think just anybody can go on a private bus? No, whoever
rents the bus can say who is allowed on the bus. Teacher reads next page. This is a
double-decker bus. There is a top and bottom level. There are a lot of seats on a
double-decker bus! Fred, lets put your double-decker bus on this double-decker bus.
Carol, maybe you can help him. Great job, you two! Jimmy, can you point to the top part
of the double-decker bus? (give hint if necessary by starting to slide finger) Awesome
job! Where do you think these double-decker buses are because they arent where we
live? I know that they are in London, but they are also in other places that give tours.
Teacher reads next page. There are many buses for all different things. Have you ever
ridden on a bus? Have you guys every ridden on a bus? You have, student? Tell me about
it? Was it a school bus? Wow! Was there a bus driver? Neat! Teacher flips back through
to the different buses and asks if the children have ridden on any of them. Most students
probably havent, but if they have then teacher will ask about where they were going and
if they liked it. All right great job, class. Thank you for helping me put together this
book!
Now that we have learned about all different types of buses, lets stand up spin around
three times and sit back down. (this gives children a second to stretch their legs) Now, I
have a very special book that I am going to read to you. After every page, we can pick out
two of our favorite words on it to write on the board that I used earlier for hangman. Are
there any questions? Yes, Sally, they can be any two words on the page that you like! This

book is called Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and it is by a man named Mo Willems!
What do you think is going to happen in this book based on the cover? Do you think that
a pigeon will ride a bus? Isnt that silly? Lets flip through the pages and just look at the
pictures in the book and talk about what we think is going to happen. Based on the
pictures, children will guess what they think might happen in the story. Okay, lets get
started. The teacher will read the book and after every page or two, she will ask a student
to pick out his two favorite words and she will quickly write them on her mini
whiteboard. Wow, you all did amazing picking out words! Did you like the story? Turn to
your walking buddy and tell them your favorite part. Teacher will give students about two
minutes to tell their favorite parts. Okay, so I have on this whiteboard all of the words
that you all picked out. Now we are going to go around the table and each of you will
circle a word that has to do with the bus. It can be any of the buses that we talked
aboutthe private bus, the city bus, the school bus, or the double-decker bus. If you
think that that word has something to do with any of the buses we learned about then I
want you to circle it. When it is your turn you may only circle one though! We will go
around and do this until we think we have come up with all the words that have to do
with buses on our whiteboard. Are there any questions?
Teacher monitors the activity and once the children think they have come up with all the
different terms associated with the bus, she will read off each one.
Are there any that you dont think shouldnt be on this bus? Can someone pick one out
that they circled and tell me why they circled it? Anyone else? Thank you for sharing.
Now, I want everyone to stand up and head over to the carpet.
II. Opportunity for Practice:
Lets all act like we are driving a bus. (Teacher acts like she is driving bus and children
will follow) Now, act like you are stopping at a stop sign. (Teacher will act like she is
slamming on her breaks) Now, act like you are giving your bus pass to the bus driver
(Teacher will act like she is giving her buss pass to the bus driver and children will
follow) Do you all have any other ideas to act out? Okay, we can act like we are walking
up to the second story of a double decker bus (Teacher acts like she is walking up stairs to
a double-decker bus) Now, pick out your favorite motion we just did and do it! Great job,
class! Now, you may go sit back down in your seats so we can make our very own school
buses.
Teacher passes out coloring pages of school bus. Color your buses however you would
like, but what color are school buses usually? Green? No. Blue? No. Theyre yellow!
Thats right, Carol! Spend time coloring pages. Teacher will play the Wheels on the
Bus song in the background to familiarize the students with the song before singing it.
While the students are coloring pages, the teacher will ask questions to the students about
the bus to reinforce what they just learned. Examples would bedo you need a bus ticket
to get on the school bus? How many wheels does the school bus youre coloring have?
Who is that (pointing to bus driver)? Now, we are going to put our own wheels on.
Teacher passes out wheel cut outs and brass pieces to teacher aid/students. What color
are these wheels? Thats right they are black! What shape are they? Thats right, circle!
Lets pin our wheels where the wheels on the bus are supposed to go. Great job! Help
students pin their wheels. Those look great you guys! I think now that we are done with
our buses, we should sing a song called the wheels on the bus! Lets follow along in this
other book while we listen to the song. You can sing along if you know any of it and spin
your buses wheels, too! Teacher will press play on the song while the children listen and
sing along if children know it. The teacher will follow along accordingly with the
songbook while showing children pictures and sing the song to the children with the CD.
III. Assessment- Teacher will ask each student at the end during centers if they know
what each of the buses does when asked. For example: Student, a school bus is in charge
of taking who home from school? Children! Thats right. What kind of bus do people buy

a bus pass for to get from bus stop to bus stop around where they live? A city bus! Nice
job. What about a private bus? Do you know what that does? Yes, people can rent them
to get big groups of people to different places. Last one! What about a double-decker
bus? How many layers does a double-decker bus have? 1, 2, or 3? Thats right! It has
two stories for people to sit in. Teacher will then decide which students she feels didnt
grasp the concept of buses. If they get more than one wrong out of the questions then they
are placed in the red category.
IV. Closure: All right you guys did a great job learning about buses and singing the
wheels on the bus! What is everyones favorite bus? The school bus? Thats my favorite
bus, too! Whats a bus you would like to ride on? Any of these? The Double-decker bus?
Yeah, that would be pretty neat. All rightlets go check our schedules to see what we
have next to do today!
Materials and Resources:
Bus Book
Toy Bus
Velcro cut-outs that go with bus book
Color worksheet
Cut outs of wheels
Brass pins for wheels
Crayons
Wheels on the bus tape
Wheels on the bus sing a long book
small whiteboard
real bus pass
Differentiation Strategies (including plans for individual learners):
Green: For children in the green group, they will learn more about each bus in further detail.
Red: For children in the red group, teacher will use the vocabulary knowledge rating scale and
ask the student individually how they feel about each bus (I know it well, I know it a bit, Ive
seen it or heard of it, Ive never heard of it). Based on this information, the teacher might choose
to focus on just one of the buses and show a video on that particular book. If it is all the buses
then the book will be read to them individually while they get to put every Velcro piece on the
pieces. The lack of knowledge might be due to the fact that they werent engaged as some of the
other learners. Once the book is read to them again with one-on-one attention, questions need to
be asked to the red children to see if they understand the bus material now.
Data Analysis:
Reflection:

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This is a School Bus.

The school bus takes
children to school in
the mornings and then
back home when
school ends.

The school bus has a

school bus driver,
multiple wheels, and a
stop sign so cars stop
when the children get
off the bus.

This is a city bus. A city

bus drives people to

and from different bus

stops throughout their
city.

A person riding the city

bus has to buy a bus

pass before they get

on.

This is a private bus.

People sometimes rent
them when they need
to get large groups of

people from place to

place.

This is a double-decker
bus. There is a top and
bottom level. There are
a lot of seats on a
double-decker bus!

There are many buses

for all different things.
Have you ever ridden
on a bus?

Cut-outs with Velcro on the back