Not sure what the story is about? Here is Kaleb’s summary of the book:
“The doorman kicked the carpet and it rolled all over the city. It kept rolling and rolling. A bunch of policemen tried to catch it. Then it kept rolling still and the policemen were catching up to it. The boat came and the carpet stopped. The car came out and drove on the red carpet all the way to the hotel.”
Kaleb’s favorite part of the story was when the policemen were chasing the carpet to arrest it – because {as he says} “Would you arrest a carpet? No!”
Rolling Out the Red Carpet
Probably one of the things all of the kids enjoyed was setting up a town and then using a red streamer to roll out the red carpet to welcome the Duke of Sultana to the Hotel Bellevue.
I used chalkboard spray paint on some of our wooden blocks and then we added the names of different places around town after the Kaleb and I lined up streets.
We used red paper streamers as our carpet and made it turn right and left all over town…just like in the story.
Zachary found a car that looked so much like the motorcar the Duke was escorted in, so it was perfect for our mini-town.
Following Directions
Throughout the story we read about turning right and left and so many other forms of directions. This was a great chance for us to talk {and learn} left from right – we’re still practicing that! {grins}
We also worked on following directions. One of the Red Carpet book Printables has to do with listening to oral directions and finding the correct object on a map. Kaleb really liked this one!!
Counting to 50 Cents
We used nickels, dimes, and quarters to count fifty cents – a great chance to practice counting by 5’s and 10’s!
Making Pretzels
The poor pretzel man in the story had his cart overturned…but we had to make pretzels for everyone. Kaleb wanted it to be a surprise for everyone, so while everyone played, he and I worked together making pretzel bites.
He helped roll out the dough {not so much}, but did a great job cutting the dough up into little bits.
We ended up with a big, yummy pile of pretzels to share with everyone. The kids thought they tasted great…I wasn’t quite as convinced. {grins}
Looking at Maps and More
In the story, there are several different countries mentioned: France, the United States, England and also Japan. Kaleb and Laurianna put together a GeoPuzzle of the United States and found Washington D. C. on the map.
We then pulled out our children’s world atlas and looked up the other countries in the story, put a star where the cities mentioned were, and labeled them as well {printable is from the Red Carpet Printables}. We pulled out our globe as well to see how far apart the cities were from each other.
A few more things {not pictured}:
~ We put together a ‘telegram’ to Daddy and talked about how telegrams were very expensive to send, so we had to make it short, but still make sense. Here was Kaleb’s telegram:
Dad.
Dinner tonight fettucine. No soup. Cookies for dessert.
Kaleb
~ We talked about road signs and the different signs we saw in the book. When we were driving we went on a scavenger hunt for signs.
That {for the most part} sums up our week. We also used our vocabulary cards from the book, read the ‘telegram’ words {simple words from the story that Kaleb could sound out and are a part of the Red Carpet Printables}.
Other Helpful Links for The Red Carpet by Rex Parkin
~ Homeschool Share resources and lapbook
~ All of a Kind blog
~ Delightful Learning blog
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School has officially started back up again for us and there has been minimal whining and complaining overall, so I’d consider that a pretty good success. This year promises to be a little more challenging for Kaleb academically, but he is rather excited that they involve some more 1:1 time with me in several subject areas.
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