The wheels on the bus

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) is a media enterprise that offers TV programs and educational services on the Internet. The PBS Kids portal, http://pbskids.org/ has thousands of pages of learning and fun to explore. This practice will be focusesd on the Music topic and it will look especially at a song and the activities related to it. The activity is addressed to students from cicle inicial and cicle mitjà.

Practice it!

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  • Select Dragons Tales on the searcher and click Go:

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Enter the section Dragon Tales. Click on Singing Springs → Share a song → Zak and Wheezie

  • Once the page has been loaded, you enter a Flash movie screen where the little dragons tell you that you have to select the tune you like the best. Click on The Wheels On The Bus.

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  • Once you have selected all the items in the three screens, click on m2p4_4.jpg. You will watch and listen to the song, sung by the little dragons.

There’s the option to e-mail the song to somebody by clicking m2p4_5.jpg, or there’s also the option m2p4_6.jpg. This is a nice way of sharing the activity with other friends.

  • Now you can finish the activity and leave the site or you can select one of the options at the bottom of the page to get to further activities related to dragons (tales, other songs, games,…).

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Activity framework

  • Methodology: The activity can be done in pairs in front of the computer. They can do the activity as many times as they need or want. Also they can change the selected items and then the song changes. Finally , you can sing along with the whole group miming the lyrics.
  • Timing: The activity takes five minutes but can be longer depending on the possibility of changing the items to select.
  • Resources: Computers with Internet connection and earphones.

Additional info

In the PBS Kids website, you can access to a wide range of activities for children from 6 to 12. We suggest you to have a look at these sections:

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