The weather has been cold outside, so we have been learning about some silly birds that love the ice and snow--PENGUINS!
We started our unit by learning as much as we could about these flightless birds. We used Gail Gibbons' book Penguins as a mentor text and created teaching books of our own.
We learned lots of interesting facts from Gail Gibbons, but we also found some great information from other sources. If you and your family want to learn some more information you can investigate different types of penguins by visiting Pebble-Go. You can also learn some more from Ed and Eppa by clicking here.
We also got a chance to see what it feels like to be an Emperor Penguin and waddle with an egg on our feel. We used a measuring tape to measure our how far we waddled.
Turns out it's harder than it looks! I'm glad we're not penguins!
After learning about all the things that real penguins do, we spent a week reading about a very silly and very tacky imaginary penguin--TACKY!
We read stories about Tacky and hunters, Tacky and an elephant, Tacky at camp, Tacky's birdday, and even Tacky and a haunted igloo! If you and your family have not enjoyed Helen Lester's Tacky at your house, do your self a favor and search him out at the library or book store. You won't be sorry that you did!
After enjoying so many stories about Tacky, we did what we do best and created some Tacky stories of our own!
Since authors write for the enjoyment of their readers, we invited some special guests to our classroom to share our stories.
And...since we can't do anything without snacks in our room, we wrapped things up some yummy penguin themed snacks--
and some Tacky inspired outfits!
You make learning so much fun!!
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