Growing as a Mommy: Unit Nine: Octopus

To see a list of posts for all of our units for Kindergarten, see here. This post contains information about only Unit Nine: Octopus.

Unit Nine focused on the letter O for Octopus and the coordinating Bible truth was "Even the octopus praises the Lord!" This week got cut a little short, as we went on a little vacation to the beach for a few days to celebrate Daddy's birthday. How nice it was that our unit study was on octopus while we were at the beach, though! It was so nice to have the beach all to ourselves and not have to worry about being in a formal school setting. We talked a lot about our unit as we walked on the beach together. This is one of my favorite parts of homeschooling- you can set your own schedule!

My son really enjoyed making a watercolor painting of his very own octopus.

Some supplements we used for this unit:

ABC Memory Verse Cards
In addition to the Bible truth, we are also memorizing a Bible verse that begins with the letter of the week. I received some ACB cards as a gift and they are by Dayspring, but I have also seen these online that would work just as well.

This week our O verse was: "Obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right" (Ephesians 6:1).

Christian Liberty Press Nature Reader K
This book is perfect for kindergarten, as it has a well-illusrtated animal lesson for each letter of the alphabet. This week we learned about the ostrich.

Ocean Pack
Here is an AWESOME resource and it's FREE! We have completed printables from this site before and I had every intention of printing off and using this pack, but we didn't get to it this week. It looks super cute, though! There is also a Hermit the Crab one too, to go along with the Eric Carle book.

Two books we really enjoyed for this unit were: A House for Hermit Crab and Mister Seahorse. Both books are by Eric Carle. We also checked out several books about the ocean and talked more about ocean life.