Ten friendly buses travel the city and countryside in a music video featuring the song, Ten Little Buses, designed to reinforce counting by one, forward and backward.   

Concepts

children's songs, counting, counting backward, counting by 1, counting to 10, numbers

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Direct pupils to hold up and count their fingers along with the song 
• Play the video at the start of a math lesson about numbers and counting 
• Take a musical brain break—encourage learners to sing along with the video when they need to refresh their minds 

Classroom Considerations

• An ad plays when the link first opens 
• Have the video ready to play in full screen to avoid reading user comments and related videos 

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Counts to 10 multiple times 
• Displays each number at the end of the video 

Cons

• None

Common Core

K.CC.A.1 K.CC.B.4.a K.CC.B.4.b K.CC.B.4.c K.CC.B.5 1.OA.C.5