Mirrors and Literacy??

Long time no blog seems like...anywho; we finished up learning about penguins this week...such a fun unit to teach.  I totally forgot to snap a pic of our learning chart!  The kids loved learning about these little guys...check out the pics below!  

waddling like a penguin...tricky, but every "penguin" got to eat krill when they reached me!

sight word hunt...they always love to get movin' round the room!

Okay, so my kids were beyond excited about this little center!  How cool to use mirrors for learning!  They totally loved this center.  I know I will have to make another one of these!

we are doing so great reading words!

I got this fun idea from Deanna Jump...we practiced odd and even counting and numbers

we watched live penguins from the national aviary...sorry for the "not so good" picture, but we got to watch the penguins feed....you may can see the workers in there with them.  We watched them waddle up the rock hill and one fell in the water...poor thing!  But, oh my...so much fun!

We practiced sorting blends onto the correct cone

They asked to play it over and over

I gave this as a freebie last year, but I know some people have had problems downloading it...not sure what's up.  I can load it in my tpt store for free because it's DJ Inkers.

beginning and ending sounds

Cute little paper bag penguin from Kim Jordano over at kinderbykim

I've uploaded the penguin measuring and patterning activity from last week's earlier post...it's in my tpt store for FREE...I've had problems with scribd archiving my things, so I'm gonna do all of my freebies through tpt...that way it's always there and for free!

The rest of these penguin centers can be found in my penguin unit.

Penguin Math

We are studying penguins this week...one of my favorite units all year!  Here's our math centers and a fun little math "art-tivity".  You can find these centers (plus lots more) in my Playful Penguin Unit over at my tpt shop.

Literacy centers to come later this week!  

And, I just posted my Happy Hearts Valentines Unit on tpt if you want to check it out.  

Thanks, as always, for reading my blog.  I'll give my new Penguin Unit to one random person that comments on this post.  Be sure to leave your e-mail in your comment so you can grab your freebie!  

Good Luck!

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Penguins!

I think I'm TOO excited to make a post because my twin had her precious little baby today and that's ALL I can think about, but I will post pictures of our penguin fun this week.  Penguins are so much fun to learn about and to teach about!  They are one cool animal that God created.  Oh, and I must include a picture of Sullivan...you'll see why when you see his adorable little face!

Huddling together like penguins do to stay warm.

Fact book penguins...idea from Kim Jordano at kinderbykim.com

My kids love this roll a word game.  They roll the letter cubes, put the word together with the vowel in the middle, and then sound it out.  They have to decide if it's a real or silly word.

Here we sorted the fish by blends onto the penguins

I loved this idea by Deanna Jump to review odd and even!

I made life size penguins of 7 different kinds of penguins a few years ago and my students love to compare themselves to them...so that's what we are doing here.  There are also facts about each type of penguin on the back.

The smallest penguin is the Fairy Penguin

The largest penguin is the Emperor Penguin.

We also completed a K-W-L chart on our penguin unit.  We learned a lot of cool things about penguins like, that they can sleep in the water and standing up!