At first go slowly, saying different sentences and having everyone do the action from the gestures section above. “The doors on the bus go open and shut”) and get everyone to do the action. Start by saying a random sentence from the song (e.g.
Get everyone to stand up facing the teacher. When teaching “Please sit down” get everyone standing up and have fun telling everyone to sit down and stand up, so they all get the meaning. Teach / practice “driver”, “Please sit down”.
Finally, draw the driver sitting on the bus holding the steering wheel. You can show flashcard pictures if your drawing is not up to scratch! Teach and practice “babies”, “boo-hoo”. Now for the tough bit – drawing babies on the bus! Draw the windows and draw babies looking out. Draw the doors on the bus and teach “doors”, “open and shut” and practice do opening and shutting actions with your arms. Then draw a steering wheel (through the window) and motion driving and honking the horn. Now draw wipers onto the picture and teach “wipers” and “swish” and get everyone to do the swishing action with their arms. Now teach the action word “go round and round” and get everybody making round and round movements with their arms as you say “The wheels on the bus go round and round”. Next, shade in the wheels and again elicit / teach / chorus the word “wheels”. Start by drawing a large picture of a bus on the board – make it as large as you can, filling the whole board. For this lesson you are going to use your artistic drawing skills. Introduce the vocab with a drawing exercise. 
The song introduces some great vocab and makes for a good ‘present simple’ lesson. This is a really popular song which kids just love to sing along to. Using “The Wheels on the Bus” song in class
For verse 6, look angry and wave your finger for “The driver on the bus says “Please sit down” …” part. For verse 5, put your fists to your eyes and mimic crying for “The babies on the bus go boo-hoo-hoo …” part. For verse 4, swish your arms back and forth for “The doors on the bus go open and shut …” part. For verse 3, beep an imaginary horn for “The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep …” part. For verse 2, swish your arms lefts and right for “The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish …” part. For verse 1, whirl your arms around in the air for “The wheels on the bus go round and round …” part. The actions of the song are really easy and mimic what is happening in the song. Gestures and activities to use with “The Wheels on the Bus” song
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