Mr. Gumpy's Motorcar fun!

Doodle's FIAR story for this week was Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car It was a FUN story. In the story Mr Gumpy goes for a ride in his car, and the children, the cat, the goat, the calf, the chickens, the dog, the rabbit...... all come with him. He gets stuck, and they all help push him up the hill. On Monday we learned about England and Europe, as Doodle noticed that the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car. We found England on the map, and talked about some of the different words they use. This site that someone posted on the FIAR boards was very helpful! We also read a family Favorite- Mr Gumpy's Outing (same premise- all the animals and children are going out with Mr. Gumpy- only this time they take a boat ride, and tip over)

Tuesday we talked about the way the story was written, how it takes place all in one afternoon, whereas some books take a week, a month or longer for the whole story to happen. We also noticed that on one page in the story the characters all answer "Not Me!" and compared it to the Little Red Hen story. So we read that story.

Wednesday, Doodle wasn't feeling too well, so we kept it simple. We read the story, looked at the artwork, and talked about texture in artwork and crosshatching.

Yesterday we talked about the 12 "people" who go for a ride in the car, and talked about a Dozen. And since Mr Gumpy has a car- We also read Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom and talked about Patterns. We used counting cars that we have to make the patterns in the book. I also found this fun puzzle that we put together. Then since Mr. Gumpy "didn't like the look of the clouds" in the sky, we read a book about clouds, and how to identify different clouds. Here are the go-along books we used this week- It was a Fun school week!