Penguin Week

To celebrate the first week of December, I decided to do a penguin unit. A good amount of ideas came from Deanna Jump's unit found here.  I also found out something SO EXCITING at the library, you can rent book boxes full of songs, videos, puppets, and books on a topic.  And...they have a penguin one!  It was like Christmas.

Monday

We made a schema chart together and talked about what we already knew about penguins.  After making our chart, the class was let loose to explore a variety of non-fiction books about penguins.  When they found a new fact about penguins, they wrote it on a sticky note and added it to our chart.  

We also incorporated penguins into our math.  We sang a song called Percy Penguin and talked about equally sharing fish between two penguins.  The class drew a number and then acted out sharing that number of fish between 2 penguins. They then recorded their findings onto a worksheet and decided if the number was equal or not.