To start the week off, I surprised Joshua with a new toy... a Duplo Police Car! It fit perfectly with our unit on police officers and I couldn't resist!
Our companion books with a police officer theme were:
- Finnegan and Fox: The Ten-Foot Cop by Helen Wilbur
- Police Officers on Patrol by Kersten Hamilton
- Bug Patrol by Denise Dowling Mortensen
- Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook
- Red Car, Red Bus by Susan Steggall
- Walter the Baker by Eric Carle
- Busy Busy Town by Richard Scarry
After reading the book on Monday, we made a town and rolled the red carpet around. Joshua chased it with his new police car and enjoyed acting different parts of the story out.
We also did a red carpet maze and played a Domino Parking Lot game for math. Joshua loved making sound effects as he drove each "car" into the correct parking place. Then he pretended they were "flying cars" when they had to be stacked. I loved seeing his imagination grow!
For a fun snack, we had Fruit by the Foot! He enjoyed unrolling it like the carpet.
On Tuesday, we read the book again and Joshua looked for some of the signs in the book. It was cool to see him find the sign and mark it off his list without me even asking him.
Next we colored a traffic light signal. Joshua knew what each color was for! Under each color, he pasted the words "stop," "go," or "slow."
We finished our work early and so we all cuddled on the couch and watched The Prince of Egypt. Joshua is learning about Moses, Pharaoh, and the Israelites in Cubbies so he was excited to see a movie about it. This is one of the things I absolutely love about homeschooling - if our work is done, and we want to snuggle up and watch a movie, we can!
On Wednesday, we read the book for the third time and noticed details on each page. Then Joshua did his handwriting pages, we are studying letter E and number 5. He also got to draw the red carpet rolling through town!
Our fun snack for today was peanut butter stop lights! I let Joshua make his own and to say he loved it would be an understatement.
On Thursday, we did a unit on police officers. We talked about how they keep us safe and solve crimes. That same morning, my brother-in-law's tailgate was stolen so I was able to talk to Joshua about how the police would figure out who did it. He was very interested! We also made a police hat, stop and go signs, and a police badge. Then he made a book about the different things policemen do.
On Friday I took the boys to the mall for a giant pretzel! One of the pictures in the book showed a pretzel cart being overturned.
I thought it would be fun to let Joshua taste a giant pretzel. He was so excited! I had been looking forward to this all week and the look on his face when he saw what his treat was made it completely worthwhile. We also read Walter the Baker which is a really cute story about how the pretzel was invented. And who doesn't love Eric Carle!?
The Red Carpet was a fun row and we made many awesome memories learning about policemen, fingerprints, and traffic signs... and especially trying soft pretzels!
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