Patience - Waiting for a Train

The animated series Bluey serves as a valuable tool in fostering children's development of imagination, curiosity, and social and emotional learning.

This lesson focuses on the capability of patience. Students use a train led by the teacher to take them between different stations, challenging their ability to wait as the train travels on a strict schedule that does not always suit students’ desire to move freely between activities and achieve instant gratification.

This suite of resources supports emotional and social learning and oral language development through a values framework. Each lesson uses intentional teaching strategies to develop a specific value. This lesson focuses on:

Click here for a full list of the values that underpin these lessons.

This lesson showcases a Bluey episode, which can be viewed on ClickView. Don't have a ClickView subscription? Bluey is also available on ABC iView. For real life!