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We Live In A Bus Printable Pack - Book Week 2025

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Created for Book Week 2025

Celebrate We Live in a Bus by Dave Petzold with this cross-curricular activity pack, designed to spark creativity, critical thinking and adventurous storytelling in primary classrooms.

This pack includes a mix of craft, writing and maths activities inspired by the story’s themes of travel, family and life on the road. Perfect for planning a whole-day experience or weaving into your Book Week plans!

What's Included:

Bus Craft

Cut out and assemble the pieces to create your own bus. Optional extra: draw or paint a background scene from the story to complete the design.

Open-Ended & Guided Writing Templates

  • Story response pages with flexible prompts

  • Hunting for Onomatopoeia – collect and create sound words, then design a comic strip

  • Listening to Country – reflect on what it means and write about sounds in nature

  • Persuasive Writing – would living in a bus be the best adventure or a total disaster?

  • My Bus Adventures – describe an imaginative road trip, including sights, sounds and feelings

Differentiated Maths Activities

  • Travel Timetable – calculate travel times and total hours on the road

  • Sharing Marshmallows – solve problems with division and sharing scenarios

  • Where Should We Go Next? – collect and graph class votes to decide on a destination

Mapping & Geography

  • Label the capital cities of Australia

  • Plan a journey for around the country

  • Respond to open-ended prompts to justify each stop on the map

Want it all?
Grab the matching We Live in a Bus slide deck to bring the story to life on your IWB. Includes writing prompts and maths tasks (linked to the worksheets), as well as additional design prompts.

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Content AreaMathematics2. Measurement & SpaceTime
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