Over the past two weeks we have been reading ‘The Naughty Bus’ by Jan and Jerry Oke.  

Vocabulary – driver, passenger, reflection, rescue, powerful, promise, naughty.

The children have had an opportunity to talk about what they like and dislike about the book. Ask your child what the bus does to be naughty! I wonder what the 'Naughty Bus' will do next?

Each day, the Naughty Bus caused some mischief in the classroom. The children were encouraged to speak in sentences about what the bus had done. We also predicted what the bus might do next.  

We have had fun in our role-play bus. This has created lots of opportunities to write tickets, plan a place they would like to go and visit using familiar shop signs and apply number and counting skills. The talk and imagination between the children has been brilliant.  

We have continued to explore our school environment on our bikes and planned our journey.

The children used a simple map (photos of places within the school) to find the Naughty bus when it had gone missing. They used prepositional language to describe where the bus was hiding.

We have started to create our own maps. We looked at a car mat and talked about what we could see e.g. buildings, roads, signs, train tracks, etc. As the children talked about their observations we made connections to places in our community e.g. homes, school, roads, Tesco, Aldi, Royston train station, friend and family homes, etc. The children made their own marks to represent places that were important to them.