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The Wheels on the Bus - Hear the tune, sing the song & learn the actions! with free colouring sheet & free sheet music for fun music theory.

The glockenspiel or the xylophone is one of the first musical instruments children can use to take their first steps in playing music.This repertoire is rich enough to get you started.

Bouncy illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats, suitable for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and the nursery or classroom.

New Release! Color Me Mozart Songbook with Free Keyboard Stickers Over 30 classic children’s songs! Sheet of Free Stickers included for your piano or keyboard! Easy to read colorful notes ...

The Wheels on the Bus - Hear the tune, sing the song & learn the actions! with free colouring sheet & free sheet music for fun music theory.

I have always LOVED teaching parts of speech. Maybe it’s my love of singing and dancing (which can easily be added to these lessons), or maybe it’s my love of sorting (perfect for teach…

The couple converted the bus themselves over the span of almost seven months. The family travels part-time while still maintaining their jobs.

Please note: Many of you are requesting access to these documents. The sharing settings are open and always have been. I have figured out that your district or network has blocked your access. When I try to reply to you in anyway, my message is sent back to me, and marked as blocked. I am not ignoring you!! Please try your personal account so I can help you. Thank you. My muses and I have been working on this for a month now, creating at home and trying these in the classroom. Hopefully you can squish this in before you jump into fall themed activities. But you will need the Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus book before you begin!! Back to the beginning... First, I simply read book to my class so they could enjoy it. We watched the accompanying video available on Teacher Tube: Pete the Cat Wheels on the Bus (Others are available on YouTube, if you can access those from your school server.) Next, I used the illustrations in the book to discuss positional words. Click on the image below to download the list of questions I used. Then we made this anchor chart of the terms! ******I explained that the bus is turned so that we were looking at its side and therefore the front and back area would look a little differently.************ After this I gave students a copy of a Pete and bus to color. We brought these to the carpet work with them demonstrating each positional term. Pete Manipulatives Bus Manipulatives Then we followed up on a different day with this cut and paste activity. Cut and Paste Positional Pete Finally, I gave students a reader using these terms as a culminating activity. It was perfect!! We are studying the word "is" and students could find it and highlight it in yellow. Pete's Bus I hope you can use and enjoy these. I am sharing because I was not able to find any positional word materials that were appropriate for the beginning of school.

Like the wheels on the bus headed towards DEATH TOWN, the Shakespearean Death Clocks keep going 'round and 'round...

Planning a school bus conversion? Check out these famous converted bus homes or skoolies for the much-needed inspiration to build your own.

The Waldorf method of education is gaining in popularity, but the tuition is expensive. Learn simple, easy ways to provide the benefits of this method to your child at home.

When I was a little girl I saw an article in the Sunset Magazine about creative play houses. One of the featured playhouse was an old schoolbus. I promised myself that when I had kids I would acquire an old bus and convert it into a playhouse for my own kids. When we bought our first home with a large yard I started to scout the junk and salvage yards but the lowest price I found was about $600.00, which was $500.00 above my meager budget. I kept my eyes peeled for a low cost bus and then a few months later when we were on a walk near our home in Cedar City, Utah I spied an old 1962 Bluebird school bus behind an apartment complex. I found out who the owner was and called him and asked him if he'd sell it to me. He told me he was just happy to get the bus off his property and that I could have it. I thought I'd won the lottery. So for $50.00 in towing fees I had the old engine-less bus towed a few blocks to my home and carefully maneuvered into place in my back yard. The kids and I spent the summer gutting the insides and scraping, sanding, power washing and painting the bus with some mistint paint we'd gotten from a paint store. The girls chose a pepto bismol pink for their interior half and my son chose a steel grey-blue for his half near the drivers seat. It was a big project and the whole neighborhood was in on the fun and when it was finished the old metal walls rang with the sounds of dozens of neighborhood kids running through and playing every sort of imaginative game and adventure inside. There were slumber parties, birthday parties, puppet shows, pirate adventures, and sometimes they even pretended they were at McDonalds and would give me food orders through the drivers window and I'd bring out goldfish crackers and Koolaid and they'd pretend they were out to lunch. It served it's purpose for many years until I moved to a new town nearby and then I paid the same tow truck driver to move the bus to my new larger property in New Harmony. There it became tool and garage storage since the little cabin was so tiny and there was nowhere to put the many tools needed for yardwork and renovations. It fell into a sort of chaotic dusty filthy mess as stuff accumulated and the space was forgotten. Then last year I decided to renovate it and turn it back into my own space again since the kids are grown and gone. I wanted it to be a great art space for arts, crafts, sewing or just a fun place to enjoy reading books and bask in the abundant natural light that came in from the banks of windows on the North and South sides. My husband got some mistint paint from the paint store and after power washing and scraping the old loose paint I started rolling and brushing on the primer and top coats. I went with a light color to repel heat and for durability but decided to create a fun scene on the front. With three grandbabies and more on the way I wanted to bring out the fun childhood play place aspects and use that broad expanse as a way to create a theme and mood in the playground side of my yard. I just love the diversity that comes with children of the world represented in a big unified adventure and I also love the sun so decided a rainbow and somewhat juvenile theme would give it an informal fun look. I gathered up a bunch of old paint and went to work sketching the design in crayon on the side of the big bus. It took several days throughout the summer to complete because the metal would get so hot that I'd have to wait until the afternoon shade was on the bus to work. I'm short so could only reach to the bottom of the windows without having to get on a ladder for the rest of the sides and top. I often felt like a cat on a hot tin roof. Paint dries very quickly on hot metal. There's a little bit of silly playfulness in most artists so I decided to give Google Earth a little nod by painting one of my favorite parodies on a biblical scripture. "If any lack wisdom, let them ask of Google" Insanad 3:16. Next time Google Earth has their satellites fly overhead and take pictures of my place they'll have a little thankyou note for all the amazing things they've brought me in my research and information searches. Once the exterior was finished it was time to gut the inside again and get it ready for a fresh paint job. I removed all the old junky furniture, old tools, costumes, broken toys and things from the past 20 years of storage collection and then scrubbed the walls, storage bins, and floors with soap and water. I scraped off any loose gunk and swept out all the mouse droppings. I had enough of the pale blue to use as a primer coat on the inside and then I mixed a little of that with a gallon of a mistinted yellow that I had from another project. It was a pretty nasty putty color but all I had so I brushed and rolled it on. I had about a quart of a butterscotch glaze left from another project so I rag rolled it over the putty yellow and it really helped make the color pop and glow with warmth. It was a rather bitter sweet day when I covered the kids old hand written messages and rules of play that they'd scrawled on the walls years ago. "No Gorls Aloud" and "Don't be loub" were on the boys side and the girls had listed some pretty strict rules about cleaning up after playing that seemed to have been summarily ignored by most of the former inhabitants. I sat bawling as I reminisced over the years of fun and adventure this tin can had seen and all the great fun my kids had brought me over the years. Oh well, now those words are buried but the memories will stay in my mind forever. Then it was time to start laying out my books, art, and storage furniture and other items I planned to use for work surfaces. I've still got some re-vamping to do but so far it's a very comfortable space and gives me plenty of room for projects. It's quite cold in the winter because there's no insulation and right now I'm using a little electrical heater but I may someday buy a small wood stove and chimney and have my husband help me install it. I've got extension cords running down the interior walls and carefully tucked behind shelves to hide the cords. It'll do for now and gives me plenty of outlets to plug in glue guns, lamps, and the sewing machine. I've been listening to podcasts on my computer and to NPR as well as just a ton of music from our CD and tape collections. Our Wifi reaches just fine out here so I can surf the net, watch a Netflix movie or whatever suits my fancy while I work on various art projects. In the summer it will be quite warm but by then I'll be gardening and working outside most of the time anyway. With the drivers seat gone there was a metal ledge housing the old heater apparatus so I built some plywood covers and glued them on with construction adhesive, then covered them with a tough upholstery fabric to hide the OSB. I cut another piece to cover where the old pedals were and disguise the rough hole where the old gear shift and transmission had been removed. The front windshield was cracked but made a great display place for seashells and other fun treasures. I hung some icicle lights across the top that dangle down and create a very romantic glow at night and illuminate the shells and float balls that I've collected. It's a wonderful place to create and just relax (when it's not too cold) and is now my second favorite place on the property, next to the garden. I hope you enjoyed learning about the bus. Come on by. I have enough glue guns and gooblys for everyone.

Take a tour of this family of three's warm and welcoming tiny house, built right onto the frame of an old school bus.

If you drive up a small road on the Key Peninsula in Washington State and see what looks a little like a school bus emerging from a tiny, shingled home—your ...

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If you’re new to van life, a Skoolie is a school bus that has been converted into a recreational vehicle. But we're not talking about your average school buses with gum under the seats but full-time living spaces and travel vehicles. As a platform for a DIY recreational vehicle, school buses provide endless possibilities! When

Are you on doing your own skoolie conversion and looking for some inspiration? Check out these ten busses for some ideas.

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Wheels on the Bus book study activities unit with Common Core aligned literacy activities and a craftivity for Kindergarten and First Grade

Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School ShoesBuy Now We love Pete the Cat! Second graders have read/sung the book and watched Pete's Wheels on the Bus video. In the book Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes Pete does lots of great things at school like reading, writing, singing, painting, adding, playing and more. We brainstormed several things that we could do at school that had two syllables: learning, helping, walking, thinking, etc... We used these ideas to complete a rhythm song. If students finished early they could draw Pete the Cat. Here are some of my favorites! Useful Links: Teachers get a copy of the worksheet here: School Shoes Composing Worksheet Pete the Cat Rockin' in My School Shoes Video Pete the Cat Wheels on the Bus Video Download FREE Pete the Cat MP3s

Ever since I started using the parachute during programming, I’ve wanted to provide something for the babies. Today that finally happened. We had our first Baby Parachute Playtime! Now, I …

Four years ago, Mira and Jeremy Thompson bought a 1989 International school bus and transformed it into a nice tiny house. At 37-feet long, it's plenty