BFIAR: Katy No-Pocket

After Corduroy, we rowed Katy No-Pocket by Emma Payne.  I have to admit, I did not love this book, like I have the others.  It was a long story, and while it was cute, it just didn't capture and hold my attention. It's about a kangaroo who doesn't have a pouch to carry her baby in so he's always left behind. She asks several other animals how they carry their babies but none of the solutions work for Katy. So she heads to the city and finds a carpenter wearing an apron full of pockets. He gives it to her and now she has a way to not only carry her own baby, but other animal babies as well!

Our companion books were about Australia and other marsupials:

• Are We There Yet? by Alison Lester
• Wombat Goes Walkabout by Michael Morpurgo
• Pouch! by David Ezra Stein
• Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, too? by Eric Carle
• Elmer and the Kangaroo by David McKee

We added many, many, many cards to our Animal Classification Collection.

We made aprons so the boys could carry beanie babies around.  This lasted a whole five minutes with my boys. It might have been more fun with girls, or aprons with bigger pockets. 

We learned about tools, like the carpenter in the book had.

And that's about all we did.

This week, we also went on a tour of the police station!  I hoped to do this when we rowed the Red Carpet, but it didn't work out that way. It was still a lot of fun! We had a group of nine boys!

meeting room

where the police officers put their weapons before entering the jail

inside a jail cell

checking out the police car

where evidence is stored

Thank you, Highland Village Police Department!