TACKY!!

This week has been a celebration of all things TACKY!!

We started the week with one of my all time favorite characters--Tacky!  Helen Lester has created lots of stories about this odd bird and we enjoyed almost all of them!

There are a few we haven't tried yet!

Let me know if you and your family read any of these books!  I am always looking for new books to add to my classroom library! 

After first reading about Tacky, we decided that maybe Tacky needed to read some teaching books to help him learn how to do things like the other penguins in the Nice Icy Land.  So we wrote some "how tos" teaching Tacky how to do everything from walking in a straight line to diving in the pool to doing ballet to shooting a target!  

Next we spent a lot of time looking at lots of different Tacky books.  We took time to look at the characters, setting, problem, and solution in each book.  We looked for all the ways the books were the same and different.

After looking at some many of Helen Lester's books, we decided to try be authors just like her.  So, we used our imaginations and one of her silliest characters, Tacky, and created some stories of our own.  (Our tacky attire only served as more inspiration!)

Then we made our own Tacky to go with our stories.

And everyone accepted the challenge to construct Tacky with cubes or pattern blocks!

And while most of the week was dedicated to the imaginary bird Tacky, we also began learning about real penguins.  Did you know that male emperor penguins keep their eggs safe and warm on their feet for almost three months without letting the egg touch the ice?  

We tried our hand--or our feet rather--at keeping keeping our eggs safe on our feet while waddling down the hallway.

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It's not quite as easy as it looks!

We kept track of how far each little penguin waddled, and some of them waddled over 60 inches!

We couldn't end with week without a treat, so we made some chocolate covered marshmallow penguins!

See if your child can tell you about how we used solids, liquids, and reversible changes to create this yummy penguin treat.

Looking for a penguin themed BrainBreak?  Check out the link below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5Xu11HBkM