Animal Command Cards

These are awesome for teaching kids to follow directions, giving them pretend play opportunities, encouraging group participation, and getting wiggles out! 

K is for Kangaroo Graph

We used kernals to graph how many times the different colored Kangaroos were rolled on the dice.  This is a wonderful math activity in so many ways including counting, comparing, and measurement. 

K is for Kangaroo Art

These kangaroos are aboriginal inspired with the idea stemming from their famous dot art. 

K is for Kangaroo

We had fun hopping around for looking for our Baby k's.  The kids used fine motor skills to "sew" their own kangaroo pouches and then we used our gross motor skills to hop around while using our discrimination skills to find the lowercase k's.  Lots of learning fun happening here! 

K is for Kangaroo

The cutest kangaroo's around made their own kangaroo pouches by sewing yarn around them going up and down through holes punched out with a hole puncher.  Next they hopped around the room making the k sound trying to find their baby "k" kangaroos to put in their pouches.  I made them with baby kangaroo clip art with the letter "k" printed on it's belly.  I then printed several and "hid" them (put them in plain sight)  all around the room.   Great fun and great fine motor control practice! 

K is for Kangaroo Activities

Kat the Kangaroo came to class this week and taught us a little about Kangaroos and Australia.  All my animal friend visitors are always so captivating for the kids, so I can't help but keep inviting them to visit our class.  We also did a few kangaroo activities including placing the Kangaroos in order from smallest to largest, we did the Kangaroo hop where we got to pretend to be Kangaroo's and hop around finding sight words and alphabet letters.  We also listened to some didgeridoos online and then made some of our own homemade ones using paper towel rolls.  We painted them using Aboriginal inspired dot art.  We also used the same dot art to paint some Kangaroo pictures.  We used pencil erasers dipped in paint to make the dots.  I think they turned out pretty darn cute.  I got the idea HERE.

K is for Kangaroo Graph and Kernal Counting

The graph we used was from HERE. I made the Counting Mat and used Kernals as markers/counters for both games.