What Do You Do With A Kangaroo

Itty Bitty Bookworm

This week we read What Do You Do With a Kangaroo by Mercer Meyer.  We enjoyed learning more about Mercer Meyer as well as hopping around like kangaroos all week.  We learned a few things about marsupials and made a few crafts that went along with our story.

Hannah made a Fruit Loop necklace.  Not only did this go along with out story but it was also good fine motor practice.  It could also be used for practicing patterns, but we didn't do that this time.

Caleb made a necklace too.

They both used toothbrushes to paint a character from the story.

Preschool

Letter: Ee 

Verse: Even a child is known by his deeds. Proverbs 20:11 

Color: Purple

Shape: Diamond 

Number: 7

Hannah colored the egg, cut out all the pieces, glued her verse to the basket then we practiced positional words.  Caleb completed one as well.

McRuffy Phonics- Kindergarten

Story of the week: THE HAT

As always the reading practice was very easy for him.  I don't worry about this since he independently reads lots of books that are much harder than this.  We are just focusing on phonics rules, spelling tests, and creative writing.

Spelling Words: in, can, has, bass, nab

He got all the words correct on the first try.

Caleb and Hannah were each asked to write a story about something falling into the lake and the story had to include an animal.  This went along with the phonics story for the week.

Caleb's Story

The Turtle Met Friends

Once upon a time someone dropped a pencil in the lake.  A turtle found the pencil and the turtle wrote some letters to his friends.

Hannah's Story

Walking at the Lake

When my sister was walking with me she fell into the lake.  A penguin was swimming after her.  She found some stairs and climbed out and I gave her a towel to dry off.  We were still walking and then we were sitting down and fishing then we went back home.

They also illustrated their story.

Attitude- Just keeping it real!

McRuffy Math- First Grade

This weeks math skills included writing numbers, recognizing place value, pattern block designs, addition problems, comparing groups of rods and cubes to numbers, setting times onclocks, counting groups of coins.

McRuffy Science- Kindergarten

This week we worked on mixing primary colors to make secondary colors.  Caleb has masted this skill, but always enjoys mixing the colors.  Hannah is still working on this.

Other Fun Stuff

This is how Hannah came to school one day.  We have a strict dress code :).

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