Plenty of Pockets for Katy October 6, 2009

The other week my son and I focused on Letter K. We continued with his alphabet books and read My K Book and also read Katy No-Pocket, which is included in our Before Five in a Row curriculum. Fun story: I actually found the book below in a stash of old books my parents had kept. And this book belonged to my uncle! It’s in great condition for being at least 30 years old.

There are so many animals listed in Katy No-Pocket, the most obvious one being a kangaroo! My son and I went through the book counting the different types of animals, and used animal cards to match the pictures in the book. My son knew most of the animals on the cards. He was fond of the lizard for a reason I’ll explain in another blog post.

One of our crafts for the week was to paste pictures of animals onto a felt tree. The animals, including a koala, owl, squirrel and monkey, are ones that were found in Katy No-Pocket and/or live/climb in trees. Here’s his handiwork:

Katy No-Pocket also has a page devoted to tools – the man who gave Katy her “pockets” has an apron full of tools. My son loves tools so we used flash cards with pictures of tools to match with the pictures in the book. And I even made him his own “pockets” – a tool belt! It was a fun sewing project even though my son wasn’t interested in wearing the belt all that much until his daddy began working with tools.

Another fun activity we did was have a K snack – kiwi! My son loves kiwi so we made kiwi-shaped seaweed and white chocolate covered pretzel Goldfish. Very yummy!

We also spent time talking about kindness and being kind, and reading the story of Zacchaeus and how Jesus was kind to him when no one else was. We shared examples of how we can be kind to others and he remembered his previous Bible verse, “A friend loves at all times.” He recites his Bible verses with me every night before he goes to bed – and he does it on his own because he wants to! Praise God!