Polar Animals

I have been meaning to write this post for 3 weeks, but we have been bombarded by sickness.  I'm so ready for everyone in my family to be well, but I have a feeling I have another week of this.  Tonight when I was tucking my daughter in I discovered she had a fever now.  I'm praying she gets better much faster than my son and I have.

So the week of January 10th we learned about polar animals.  It seems like so long ago!  This was our first week back from our long winter break.  It was a little hard to get going again, but after the first couple of days it kind of felt like we had never stopped.   E is not a fan of coloring, so I am having to change what I had planned a lot of the time.  K loves coloring, and has since she was 1.  I made up or found most of our Tot School projects for her, and now I am going back through and making them more E friendly.  I guess it is a good time to get used to doing that, since I'm sure this will happen many times in the future. 

The art project for this week was a penguin puppet.  I found a penguin coloring page that K colored and E sort of scribbled on.  They each cut out their penguin and glued it on a craft stick.  I then told a story using positional words (up, down, right, left) about a penguin on a little adventure.  They acted out the story with their puppets.  I am trying to get them up and moving more since we have been stuck inside so much lately, so in the last couple of weeks we have even done this a couple more times when I've seen E carrying his penguin around.     

 

They also completed this worksheet that I had printed from Teacher File Box.  I didn't know of E would be ready for this, but he did a great job!

Our read alouds were:
Curious George at the Aquarium
Magic Tree House Research Guide #16:  Polar Bears and the Arctic
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Penguins and other Polar Animals