Back to School: {Emily’s Favorite Intervention–We All Go Traveling By Story Board}

……And we all start another school day, hooray!

Hello everyone! It’s Emily here, and I am so excited to be writing on the blog again! It’s back to school
time, which means I get to discuss one of my favorite singable books, which has coincidentally
transformed into one of my favorite active interventions! In Barefoot Books’ We All Go Traveling By, the
reader gets to hop on the school bus as it makes its way to school! Throughout the book we see lots of
different modes of transportation. The book itself is a wonderful resource to address many goals,
including color identification and working memory of the sounds that each vehicle makes!

To adapt this book, I made a board (attempted to make a board drawing is not my forte) with Velcro
spots for each mode of transportation. If you are lucky enough to have a smart board/ projector, you
could also find an image to project on the board and use tape instead of Velcro. Each student is given a
vehicle visual, as I sing “I spy with my little eye, you can hear with your little ear… a yellow school bus..”
the students will work together to identify who has the yellow school bus. I then ask whoever has the
prompted vehicle to think of what sound it would make as they find an appropriate place on the board
for the vehicle to go. Adding some freedom to this intervention has made the song adaptable for some
of my older elementary/ middle school classrooms!

I hope you enjoy, and have a great start to your school year!