The last tree is already decorated, and Little Blue gets a surprise along with readers, as tiny lights embedded in the illustrations sparkle for a few seconds when the last page is turned. The final tree is reserved for the truck’s own use at his garage home, where he is welcomed back by the tree salestoad in a neatly circular fashion. These five trees are counted and arithmetically manipulated in various ways throughout the rhyming story as they are dropped off one by one to Little Blue’s friends. Little Blue loads up with trees at Toad’s Trees, where five trees are marked with numbered tags. The truck is decked out for the season with a Christmas wreath that suggests a nose between headlights acting as eyeballs. We saved “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” for last and let the children have their own cut-outs of our special Pigeon for their paper buses if they wanted to include him on the bus (or outside the bus, if they didn’t give in to Pigeon’s pleadings!).The sturdy Little Blue Truck is back for his third adventure, this time delivering Christmas trees to his band of animal pals. They glued the shapes together to make the bus and then decorated faces using markers This helped them make their very own buses out of different shapes cut out of paper. When we showed the children the flannel board of the bus, we talked about the different shapes on a bus (rectangular windows, circular wheels, etc.). (to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) (Point to self on ‘I’,right hand over heart on ‘love’, andpoint to other on ‘you’) The people on the bus say, “Shh, shh, shh,” (Fisted hands in front of eyesand rub them like baby crying) The baby on the bus says, “Wah, wah, way!” The horn on the bus goes “Beep, beep, beep” (Put arms together in front of you and’swish’ like windshield wipers) The wipers on the bus go “Swish, swish, swish,” They picked up a passenger, and then there were five. They picked up a passenger, and then there were four. Three people riding, they stopped by a store They picked up a passenger, and then there were three. Two people riding, they stopped by a tree He picked up a passenger and then there were two.
One Lonely Bus Driver (We did this great rhyme using a flannel board and finger puppets)
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