You Can't Take An Elephant On the Bus (You Can’t Let an Elephant...)

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As part of the University and County wide commitment to equality, the school, together with Eddington and the University, is ending LGBT+ month by making a human rainbow. On Wednesday 28th February, we ask that you send your child to school dressed in a coloured T-shirt or outfit. This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total disaster as they try to travel in the most unsuitable vehicles. I think it’s important that children think about the rules that are in place, and consider the reasons why they are there. Thank you for visiting Nursery World and making use of our archive of more than 35,000 expert features, subject guides, case studies and policy updates.

So, having brought these kinds of questions to the forefront of children’s minds I would then start to talk about the rules we have at the setting. On a final note the weather next week is going to be especially chilly, please make sure your child is wrapped up warm! Explore other forms of transport and maps and use personal experiences to help create a recount or directions for a toy bus.Thank you for the parent responses offering to attend our Shepreth Wildlife Park trip on 13th March. Green: creating our own playdough animals using other materials such as string and googley eyes to finish them.

We have been learning to use positional language as well as giving directional commands using an app on the iPads.We Can’t Take An Elephant On The Bus by Patricia Cleveland-Peck a great KS1 text for your transport topic. The story gives us some ideas as to why we can’t but I would want my children to think of some of the cause/effect reasons for themselves. Yellow Challenge: looking at a scene from our story Spots or Stripes and writing our noun phrases “stripey tiger”, “spotty leopard”, etc.

Never put a camel in a sailing boat, or a tiger on a train, and don't even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike . Our focus this week has been what makes a good pet, we have learnt that there are many animals that would not make a good pet. In the mean we would like to explain that parents attending with us will be doing so as support for the class teachers not as an accompaniment for their child. I would be challenging children to think is that ‘can’t’ as in ‘you’re not allowed to’ or ‘can’t’ as in ‘it’s simply not possible?

Next week the focus will be extending our vocabulary related to wild animals, describing patterns in nature and length, reading the story: Spots or Stripes? Children discuss which vehicles they have tried; they share their reason for travelling and describe how it felt. Children will enjoy the silliness of this book and the familiar font and layout will naturally draw some children to it – it looks very much like a Lauren Child ‘Charlie and Lola’ picture book. We have been writing about what would happen if we had a giraffe or a lion or a crocodile or a elephant as a pet.

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. Share the joys of bus and train rides by reading You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus, Naughty Bus and The Train Ride. Published by MA Education Limited, St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. The aspect of this book that captured my attention more than anything else were the exciting possibilities of using it to challenge children’s philosophical thinking.Purple: playing ‘animal twister’– like the traditional twister game but replacing the colours with animals. The children were welcomed back to school with a ‘PAW-some’ new topic- Animal Kingdom and some roaring new challenges.