Penguins, Penguins, Penguins!

Since returning from Christmas break, my team and I have gone crazy for winter books...especially books about Penguins! Maybe it's the fact that we live in South Florida that makes us latch onto "colder" books! :)))

Anyways, we began the study with teaching our little ones what the word schema meant! We brainstormed their penguin schema and then added it to the chart. We then throughout the past 2 weeks have been using non-fiction and fiction books alike to add to our New Learnings section! It's so fun to see how excited they have been.

We then began the process of writing our Penguin Non-Fiction books! Before the writing of each page, we taught a mini-lesson that corresponded. Now I hear the students finding table of contents everywhere! Haha.

First came the Table of Contents....

Second, What They Look Like....

Third, Where They Live.....

Fourth, What They Eat...

And Last Interesting Facts.....

We copied our Penguin, Penguin poem that we have been reciting for the last two weeks in our best handwriting! :) No floating letters please~

We are not quite finished for we still have to add our diagram and front cover, as well as conduct our blubber glove science experiment! So...more to come next week!

In the mean time, my intern brought in this cute guy with fake snow! It was SOOOO cool. It literally felt cold and the kiddos LOVED touching it! It was a great way to bring everything together. :)

Happy Learning~
Mrs. Hunter