Kindergarten lesson officer buckle and gloria betterlesson. Help them determine that glorias behavior is a clue that the story of officer buckle and gloria is. Jan 22, 2018 officer buckle draws on his personal experiences when writing safety tips. Always stick with your buddy and that is the end of officer buckle and gloria. A giving them important safety tips b telling funny jokes c speaking with expression d smiling a lot 4.
We had two days of performances the first was at east riddlesden. Gloria gave officer buckle a big kiss on the nose officer buckle gave gloria a nice pat on the head on the back, then officer buckle thought of his best safety tip yet. Also the students should practice writing a letter and. But when he gives his regular talk at napville school, no one pays attention, and some children even fall asleep. Fun activities to teach safety in the classroom using the book officer buckle and gloria, by peggy rathmann. That situation changes when the napville police department acquires a dog named gloria, who accompanies officer buckle on his next school visit. Unbeknownst to buckle, gloria performs hilarious dramatizations of his tips behind his back, and the students love it. Gloria s acting talents suddenly make officer buckle the talk of the town. Officer buckle enjoys the fame until he sees on a taped speech that the schoolchildren are so enthusiastic because of gloria.
The complete list of officer buckle s 110 safety tips. Soon, officer buckle and gloria are requested to share their safety tips at hundreds. The presentations are boing and the kids and staff usually ignore the tips. But whenever he tries to share his safety tips, nobody listens until the day the napville police department buys a police dog named gloria, who has her own way of demonstrating safety tips. The most important safety tip writing and craft for officer buckle and gloria use this writing activity and craft to inspire your students to write expository essays. You have to watch carefully to see what gloria does. Unbeknownst to officer buckle, gloria has her own way of demonstrating safety tipsone that makes napville sit up and take notice. Classroom safety tips classroom, school safety, officer.
The letters should be collected and sent to officer buckle and gloria. Read this book to find out what happens when officer buckle gets a new police dog named gloria. This is a clever way of letting readers in on a secret that officer buckle does not know and adds a level of complexity to the book. Discuss with students what makes the fiction and nonfiction texts different. Officer buckle s very useful safety tips fall on deaf ears every time he shares them with the kids at school. Officer buckle and gloria the little reader that could. Reading it one night and noticing all the postit notes behind officer buckle, i began to wonder if there were actually 101 safety tips in the book.
This is a great book to get you thinking about safety. Use this writing activity and craft to inspire your students to write expository essays. About officer buckle and gloria besides the beguiling story, the affable illustrations of the smiling gloria, the accidental mayhem in the background, and the myriad safety tips such as always pull the toothpick out of your sandwhich and never lick a stop sign in the winter add to the enjoyment. Each student creates a safety tip poster similar to the ones in the book to present a solution to one of the identified safety problems. The story today is called officer buckle and gloria. Officer buckle is a clumsy police officer who puts together safety tips and presents them to the local schools. Or perhaps your child has a connection to glorias silliness or the way officer buckle and gloria showed great teamwork together.
Explore classroom activities, puzzles, teacher resources and enrichment pdfs for this book. Officer buckle visits various schools and centers to promote his safety tips around napville. Officer buckle knows more about safety than anyone in the town of napville. The students at napville school snooze through officer buckle s safety speeches until his new police dog, gloria, joins the act. Officer buckle and gloria sterling heights police department. Once officer buckler finds out what gloria is doing, he refuses to deliver any more safety speeches and makes gloria do them on her own. Talk about what happened gloria was getting all the attention and officer buckle s feelings were hurt. In this safety lesson, students create a classroom bulletin board of safety tips, and then draw gloria the dog in the story acting out important.
The complete list of officer buckles 110 safety tips jeff. The sight gags in peggy rathmanns illustrations helped earn this book a caldecott medal. My kids love peggy rathmans book, officer buckle and gloria. The trouble with officer buckle s speeches is that they are just too boring. Officer buckle and gloria by peggy rathmann memoria press.
As officer buckle says in safety tip one hundred and one, always work with a buddy. Afterwards, the school has its worst accident ever. And even though theyre friends, they had a problem to work out. But soon, children are paying officer buckle s new police dog, gloria, who stands behind him, impishly miming the dire consequences and accidents involved in not using ones head. Officer buckle and gloria extension activities scholastic. This zany book, illustrated in vibrant color, tickles funny bones while teaching gentle lessons about safety and teamwork. When officer buckle discovers that everyone is watching gloria and not him, he stops doing the safety tips. However, when he brings his enchanting dog gloria to join him for the presentation, all the children play close attention to his clever and helpful guidance. Officer buckles very useful safety tips fall on deaf ears every time he shares them with the kids at school. Officer buckle is known in the vicinity for his helpful safety tips that he is constantly pinning in his corkboard. We have a videotape of my mother chatting in the dining room while, unnoticed by her or the cameraman, the dog is licking every poached egg on the buffet. But officer buckle does not know gloria is doing anything.
Officer buckle and gloria officer buckle and gloria book by peggy rathmann, 1995 theme. Officer buckle and gloria by peggy rathmann goodreads. Reviewing procedures with officer buckle and gloria the. However, the school children find officer buckle s safety lectures boring, until the day when he takes his new police dog gloria along with him to the lecture. Its apparent how much officer buckle and gloria need each other, and before long, they are again a winning team.
But the two discover that what made the speeches such a success was that they were a great. If you ever need anyone to come and present safety. This activity allows students to give their opinions about the safety tips as well as allowing others to use their imagination to create new safety tips. Officer buckle discovers his tips are not as successfully received by his audience without gloria, who pantomimes his advice while he talks. Oct 27, 2012 without officer buckle knowing, gloria acts out the safety tips in a way that grabs everyones attention, and all of a sudden officer buckle and gloria are requested everywhere. Officer buckle and gloria by peggy rathmann teaching ideas. After reading, officer buckle and gloria by peggy rathmann, have students choose one safety tip that they feel is the most important to follow.
Gloria does the next safety lecture on her own, and its so boring even she falls asleep. Help them determine that gloria s behavior is a clue that the story of officer buckle and gloria is. I actually wasnt aware that i do any of the strategies that i learned about at uab, but clearly i do. Then let children practice solving their own interpersonal problems. Unfortunately, he doesnt actually keep the kids engaged with his lessons. Officer buckle and gloria vocabulary and comprehension. The phone started ringing grade schools and daycare centers were calling about the safety speech buckle, they said our student your safety tips and bring along that police stop that his safety speech is not exciting, so everybody can hear it. Then, unbeknownst to officer buckle literally, behind his back, gloria does tricks imitating the safety tip demonstrating safety rules, and gloria is a big success. Also the students should practice writing a letter and how the format differs from regular writing. How to stay safe lesson plan is suitable for kindergarten 2nd grade. Officer buckle and gloria is a caldecott medal winning picture book by peggy rathmann. Together, officer buckle and gloria s safety class is a hit at the schools. The children at napville elementary school always ignore officer buckle s safety tips, until a police dog named gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches. Officer buckle gets a police dog named gloria, and everything changes.
Tip number 70 seven will never stand chair if you see you stand on a swivel chair will definitely swivel on you and you. Officer buckle is so pleased by how excited everyone suddenly becomes because people have finally started listening to his tips. Rathmanns story of the importance of teamwork, along with her caldecott medalwinning illustrations, which have been created from a vibrant palette of cartoon art, make this book an appealing read aloud. Facial expressions especially those of officer buckle and gloria are priceless, and little details such as the banana peel decal with a red line through it on the policemans sleeve and gloria demonstrated safety tips inside the front and back covers add to the charm of this winner. He refuses to teach safety and a huge accident happens. Encourage your child to make a texttoself connection and see if any of his safety tips remind them of something theyve experienced. The trouble with officer buckles speeches is that they are just too boring. Each student creates a safety tip poster similar to the ones in the book to present a solution to one of the. Officer buckle always thought all about safety tips in his mind he wrote them down and put them up on his bulletin board every time he shared his safety tips with the kids at napville school but nobody ever listened they just didnt think that he was cool officer buckle needed help to teach his safety tips to kids at school. Officer buckle, they said, our students want to hear your safety tips. Students listen to the teacher read a book about a police officer and his trained dog and make connections to their own personal safety habits. That is until he gets a partner, gloria, a police dog. Dear panthers, todays read aloud is one of my favorites from when i was in elementary school.
But whenever he tries to share his safety tips, nobody listens. Students love to listen to all the safety tips and get excited to see what gloria will do next. Its so dull, in fact, that it puts audiences to sleep. In this delightful story, officer buckle gives speeches about safety tips to schools, but the children never listen.
After reading, officer buckle and gloria by peggy rathmann, have students choose one safety tip that they feel is the most impor. Officer buckle is a friendly police officer who enjoys making up safety tips and sharing them with school children. May 24, 2014 my kids love peggy rathmans book, officer buckle and gloria. Important safety tip officer buckle and gloria by the. Officer buckle and gloria printables, classroom activities. Officer buckle and gloria by peggy rathmann scholastic. While officer buckle recites his list of safety tips, gloria performs tricks to illustrate them. But hopefully these pictures of the locations, set, costume etc.
I stop to ask questions to keep my students focused and to determine story comprehension. Until, that is, the napville police department buys a police dog named gloria. Write their own safety tip and draw a picture on the star write a. Suddenly the safety talks are a hit and officer buckle and gloria are appearing everywhere. Officer buckle and gloria is a story that takes place in the town of napville. Safety tip writing with officer buckle and gloria one of the biggest themes in officer buckle and gloria are those funny safety tips, so we used the story as a launching point for an opinion writing piece on what we thought was the most important safety tip. He is hurt that nobody looks at him during his speeches. Officer buckle and gloria realize they need each other to get their safety message across. The recipient of the 1996 caldecott medal, officer buckle and gloria, is the story of a school safety officer upstaged by his canine partner. Officer buckle is a rolypoly bloke, dedicated to teaching schoolchildren important safety tips, such as never put anything in your ear and never stand on a swivel.
And be kind of doing this, so it takes a little justice just part of the officer buckle more safety tips that anyone every time he thought of a new contacted on his fault safety. Talk about what happened gloria was getting all the attention and officer buckles feelings were hurt. Jun 25, 20 officer buckles safety speeches were boring. For example, gloria s desire to help officer buckle by acting out his safety tips is shown throughout the book, but is not expressed in the actual story until the end. Officer buckle is the information officer who comes to schools to talk. True false sure unsure 10 officer buckle starts giving out safety tips again because he knew that he and gloria give the best tips as a team. True false sure unsure 9 officer buckle feels pleased after seeing himself on tv. Important safety tip officer buckle and gloria important safety tip officer buckle and gloria. In fact, he has a bulletin board full of safety tips. He loved sharing them with the napville school students. The complete list of officer buckles 110 safety tips. Officer buckle was thumbtacking laires letter to his bulletin board when the phones started ringing. Safety tips with officer buckle and gloria readwritethink.