Cross- Curricular Activities

Math

• Have child(ren) count the number of different passengers on the bus.

  • Using rules of subtraction and addition, have child(ren) think about how the overall total number of passengers is affected when someone gets on and off the bus.

Science

• Experiment: Answer the question, “Why does light make the sky look blue?”, with a simple experiment.

• Materials:

  • Clear Plastic Cup

  • Tap Water

  • Milk

  • Flashlight

• Procedure:

  1. Fill the plastic cup with water.

  2. Add a few drops of milk so the water becomes a little cloudy.

  3. Darken the room and hold the flashlight in front of the cup so beams shine through.

  4. Look into the plastic cup from above. What happens to the milk?

• Explanation: When you added the milk to the water, the light became more visible because the particles in the milk reflected light. The light in the milky water turned pale blue because the particles separated out the blue waves of light. Dust and drops of water are almost always in the Earth’s atmosphere. These particles bend the light from the sun, causing the sky to look blue. When the sun rises or sets, the colors change because the light has to pass through more particles at different angles, so other light waves are bent toward your eyes.

Social Studies

• Using a map of your local city, place the map on the floor and create routes depicting the bus, streetcar, cab, or other vehicles. Objects can be set on top of the map to outline the path.

Social Emotional

• Create six Mood Masks, created from paper plates, yarn, markers, tape, and tongue depressors. Facial expressions and labels should reveal happy, sad, surprise, scary, angry, and sleepy.

  • Read a description (phrase/sentence) from the book and have a child identify the mask that best describes their feelings when they hear those words. E.g. butterflies dancing free in the light of the moon; stray cat shadows moving across the wall; crumbling sidewalks and broken-down doors; rain freckled on your shirt and dripping down your nose.