I really like this book because it is very entertaining, and it keeps your attention. Even though this book is for young kids, it made me laugh. Basically, in the book a police officer named Officer Buckle goes around to different schools reading safety tips to the students. At first, he went by himself, and the students thought he was incredibly boring. Many of them fell asleep. Then, he decided to take a police dog named Gloria with him to the schools. The kids loved to hear the safety tips when Gloria was with Officer Buckle. He thought Gloria sat at attention the whole time during the show, but little did he know that Gloria actually did tricks and acted out the safety tips he was reading. One example is when he read safety tip #2, "Always wipe up spills before someone slips and falls," Gloria stood on her head. Once Officer Buckle discovered that the kids were cheering for Gloria's tricks and not him, he became angry and said that he wouldn't go to anymore schools. So, Gloria went by herself to do the show, and she and the kids fell asleep! That day, one of the schools had a huge accident, so Officer Buckle decided he would go back and read safety tips with Gloria. He finally realized that his best safety tip ever is.... well you will have to read the book to find out!
This book is excellent because it teaches kids about safety, but it also teaches them about the importance of friendships and working together. The only time the audience enjoyed to hear the safety tips was when both Officer Buckle and Gloria were there. They worked great as a team, but were unsuccessful when they tried to do the show by themselves. I would use the book at the beginning of the year to talk about safety in the classroom, because the book includes safety tips in the story, but some are also listed on stars inside the front and back cover. It also can be used to get students talking about the importance of working together, which will hopefully set a standard for how students will relate to each other during group work throughout the year.
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I really enjoyed this book too, Christa! I read this book in our literacy class for one of our group assignments and I agree with you that this would be a very good book to teach your students about saftey. It makes students see how important saftey is and when we do not have someone telling us the saftey rules, something bad could happen, just like in the story. I think it would be a good idea to read this to the class and then have them come up with their own saftey rules for the classroom.
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