We stared our penguin unit with reading fiction penguin books particularly about Tacky the Penguin who is unique. We also read another one of my favorite penguin books, The Penguin Who Wanted to Be Different. It is about a penguin who wanted to be special in her own way and to look different than all of the other penguins in the town. So we made our own penguins and wrote about why each of us is special. I love, love, loved hearing why each of them think they are special.
We began by brainstorming any questions we had about penguins.
Then everyday we would read at least two pages in non-fiction books about penguins; such as, diet, how they move, babies, and parts of their body. After reading, we'd see if we could answer any questions on our penguin and then we'd add facts to our "can/like/have/are" poster. I would write the fact that they came up with and then they would illustrate it on a sticky note.
To grasp the concept of waddling and caring for babies, we did the penguin when race!
We labeled the parts of a penguin and then discovered who was as tall as the tallest penguin: Emperor Penguin, 4 feet tall. Only 1 out of 22 students was as tall as our 4 foot penguin.
For math, we used goldfish to create our own addition sentences.
And we also did some ice fishing. The fish have rhyming words on them. They had to try to fish for each pair of rhymes.
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