Penguins!

We started off the new year with our polar animal unit. This week we had fun learning about penguins. We learned that they ARE birds but cannot fly. We loved singing the chorus to our favorite penguin song..."Mr. Penguin, I can't teach you to fly-like the birds and the bees and the bugs that soar way above the sky." Maybe your child can sing it to you! We loved pretending to be penguins by waddling, sliding, swimming and jumping. It was easy making penguins with our footprint and potatoes as stamps. We can't wait to learn about polar bears next week!

Our sensory table has blue rice with polar animals and icebergs so we can pretend we are in the arctic too!

We LOVE our new student!! We are so glad you've joined our class.

We love sharing the adventures Chester the Cheetah goes on each week.

We are already stamping and writing our last names! Such smarties :)

We're sharpening our cutting skills too!

Love our footprint penguins!

Penguins stamped with two sizes of potatoes

One friend even brought in real pictures of penguins. So cool!

We used colored frogs to make patterns. We learned that two repeating colors is an "AB" pattern. Once we mastered that type of pattern we tried repeating colors and more color combinations.

Then we read our color words to make more patterns

It was a good week to get out the parachute since we couldn't go outside. We tried to keep our little friends (stuffed animals) from popping out. Of course the popping out was the fun part! ha!

*What a great week at school with some fabulous friends!