Preschool - Week 8 - Katy No-Pocket

This week we read Katy No-Pocket. A classic story of a pouchless mama kangaroo looking for a way to carry her joey.  What a great science lesson in disguise! We talked about marsupials, many different animal habitats, and names for daddy/mommy/baby animals.  There are also opportunities to do some counting, some "find its" and even talking about not crying and giving up when you face a problem. (She's a very emotional mama kangaroo...)

This week, I took a departure from the now standard magnet/clothespin/etc. activities. This week we did something new - we made a LAP BOOK.  A lap book is a file folder that you decorate with things that pertain to a subject that you are studying.  HomeschoolShare.com has a ton of these that are free to print and use.  We did most of the activities from their Katy No-Pocket lap book pdf.  I just printed these out on cardstock, except the title page, which I printed on regular paper.

 E colored the title page, then we glued it to half the lap book front, cut it along the edge and glued the other side on.

She did lots of cutting:

Gluing:

Sticker-making:

Sticker peeling:

Matching:

Coloring:

(This is not part of the lap book, but was a cute coloring page. 

The joey fits into the mama's pocket! )

Sounding out K words and inserting them into a cute K pocket:

Enjoying the fruits of our labor: