Week of Penguins

This week we focused on Penguins....

Our essential question was: Could we have a penguin as a pet?

Informational Text for the week:

We decided that we could not have a penguin as a pet because we do not live south of the equator. 

This week we also read Tacky the Penguin. First we described Tacky, then we compare what his friends thought of him at the beginning of the story and what they thought of him at the end of the story.

Above all my kiddos loved finding the "fancy" words in the story and figuring out what they meant.  This week in writing we focused on using "fancy" words and I am loving how it has carried over. I will post about "fancy" words next week.

I found this craft project a little late it's going into my files for next year. :-) Click the picture to take you to the directions from Miss Kindergarten.

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Great week to learn about Snow

I don't think we could have been any luckier last week.  Our theme for the week was snow and we actually got some SNOW!!!! The kids were so excited even though we didn't have a snow day.

Our essential questions for the week was: What makes a snowflake?

We started off the week by researching snow on pebble go.  The kids learned a lot and so did I believe it or not.

Some of the other books we read were...
~Snowmen at Night
~The Snowy Day
~There was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow (check out my retelling activity on TpT)
~Snowflake Bentley

As a fun crafty project we made snowmen.  They loved it!!! and they didn't turn out too bad.

Hot Cocoa

Last month I decided to change my housekeeping center into a elf wrapping station complete with mini gift boxes, wrapping paper, and even a mailbox that went to the North Pole.  My kiddos loved it!!! So for January I have turned my house keeping into a Hot Chocolate Shop.  They were so excited when they came in this morning you would have thought it was Christmas.  Most of the things I put in my shop are things I gathered from my house but I did purchase a couple of things from Amazon.

Things from home... empty coco containers, empty hot chocolate tins and boxes, hats, scarves, gloves, spoon, old travel coffee mugs (I also saw these at the dollar store the other day), and some disposable coffee ups. I also included some empty gift cards to starbucks and dunkin donuts.

Thing I bought... Melissa and Doug slice and decorate cookies and a coffee maker.

 

Here is a side view of what it looked like when I put everything together.