We did our best to keep warm this cold winter week. The kiddos love to have their feet painted. Most of them were ticklish, but we made it through the project with not too much of a mess.
Our little penguins make a warm welcome sign on our classroom door. Yes, I painted my foot as well. I'm the big mommy penguin on top.
This week was the letter P so we played with pennies. I gave each child a baggie and their instructions were to count out ten pennies, put them into the bag and put the rest back into the jar. Quite a few were spot on, but many were not. This made the lesson more effective. We were able to practice many math concepts such as counting on, more than/less than, adding, and subtracting. When we were done correcting the bags, we had 10 bags with 10 pennies in each bag. So, you guessed it, this lead to a discussion about skip counting by 10's.
We also used number cards to clip on a line. The number line will be up again next week so that the kiddos can practice ordering the numbers or finding the missing numbers.
P is for polar play. The kiddos created polar play-scapes with white floam, drink holder icebergs, and small polar animals. They practiced using vocabulary such as glaciers, icebergs, igloos, arctic, etc. They also were able to create habitats for all of the polar animals that we have been learning about.
P week wouldn't have been complete without puppets and popcorn!
After watching a portion of "March of the Penguins," the kiddos ordered their penguins 1-16.
Arctic animal week is always one of our favorites. We talk about many of the animals that call the snow and ice their home. We didn't quite finish our writing project so I wanted to save that for next week. The picture gives you a little sneak peak! Who doesn't love a pink penguin :-)
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