Riding the School Bus

 

The preschoolers in our class love to ride the bus to school!  Each morning, we are able to greet the preschoolers as they get off the bus at Ocean Lakes Elementary.  Our goal is to make our students feel welcome from the start!  We are very lucky to have such kind and patient bus drivers at our school.  Each bus driver does a great job of keeping our students feel safe on the drive to/from school.  

We also use the "real life" opportunities of arrival & dismissal to teach our students about bus safety and about the importance of communicating with others.  To do so, we model the language of "Goodbye" & "Thank you for the ride."  This type of language not only encourages the preschoolers to interact kindly with their bus drivers, but to do so with others that they interact with during the day.  We encourage the preschoolers to call their bus drivers by name.  In doing so, the preschoolers are learning how to communicate effectively with others and showing the bus drivers that they appreciate the service that they are providing each day.