Kk- Kangaroo

We had a rough start to our week. We got started late on Monday and then nobody wanted to do school. Everyone's been dragging their feet, and lots of whining and complaining going on. On top of that I had a migraine for 2 days and a funeral of a dear friend of our family this week. Somehow we made it through! Just keeping it real...school is definitely not all fun and games. Some days it takes all you've got just to get through it, but by the grace of God I make it through with my sanity and the kids hopefully learned something. If nothing else they learned that life doesn't always go as planned.

So this week we learned about kangaroos. I didn't make it to the library (another fail) so we watched a couple of Youtube videos of kangaroos and looked at pics online. Our Bible focus was about how baby kangaroos (joeys) are kept safe in their mother's pouch and our words to remember were "I am safe in God." This sounds simple, but it's actually a hard concept for a five year old. I don't want my kids to think that they are invincible and nothing can harm them. Being safe in God doesn't mean that nothing bad will ever  happen in life, but that no matter what life throws at us nothing can separate us from God. As long as we have him we are "safe" and he will help us through.

One activity we did was to practice hopping. My girls can definitely hop farther than me (I'm old!) We measured our hops and then compared to an adult kangaroo who can jump up to 30 feet!! We also measured out 30 feet to give them an idea of just how far that actually is!


Along with learning the letter K we learned that ck together just makes one /k/ sound.
For some reason there were tears shed over this new concept! Seeing a 'c' with a 'k' made Boo forget the 'c' sound and think 'c' says /s/! In other words she was reading the word "neck" as "nesk." Finally she got the hang of it and started read her words right.

 
On a brighter note, she finally recognized a #7 without any help or tears, she recited all her vowels correctly, counted to 100 by tens, and did a good job with her blend ladder words. Shes definitely grown since we  first started K.




We read the story Katy No Pocket.





We also made a simple kangaroo pouch craft. We made the pocket out of a brown paper lunch sack and glued a cute little joey peeking out (just clipart I found online). We glued our words to remember on the front, hole punched, and tied a string so that she could wear her pouch.Then Boo played "mama kangaroo" and used it to carry around her little toy animals.

We also had the circus come to town this week. I wish this could have happened during E- Elephant week, but it was still cool that we'd just finished learning about them a couple weeks ago!