We have been doing a very brief study of Antarctica with an emphasis on penguins. This picture of a penguin was one Alex did of "DLTK's Easy Penguin Craft" found at:
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/measypenguin.html
Our main book about Antarctica has been: "Antarctica: A New True Book" by Lynn M. Stone. We also enjoyed: "Discovering Antarctica: Plants and Animals" by June Loves.
A wonderful book about an early Antarctica explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, is "Sea of Ice: The Wreck of the Endurance" by Monica Kulling. It is amazing how much these men (& animals) went through.
For fun, and many, many laughs, we've been reading "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by the Atwaters.
Other books we've enjoyed:
- "The Emperor Penguins New Clothes" by Perlman - we read this many nights in a row
- Penguin Pete books by Pfister
- Tacky books by Helen Lester - Alex LOVES these - very funny
- The Magic School Bus Chapter Book - "Penguin Puzzle" - about penguins, the Antarctica, and icebergs
- "March of the Penguins"
- "The Pebble and the Penguin" - very cute cartoon movie about an Adelie Penguin who is trying to give a beautiful pebble to his girl - since we didn't study other penguins (besides the Emperor penguins from March of the Penguins), I was surprised that these male penguins present a pebble to a female, and if she accepts it, they are mates for life!
- Mr. Popper's Penguin - cute movie evidently based on a picture book of Mr. Popper's Penguins
I had really wanted to do this neat penguin study I'd found called Easy Make & Learn Projects: Penguins (Grades 1-3) - maybe we'll still do it sometime. I also had some other projects in mind, but I think we'll move on to our next topic in a couple of days.
1 comment:
You really put together a great little unit. I wish that I would have known about it sooner, I sure would have used some of those books that you mentioned for my little one.
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