We spent our week learning what animals live in the coldest regions of our planet. We focused on Emperor penguins for Antarctica. We learned the dad penguin cares for the egg by keeping it on feet below his belly for about 2 months. We learned penguins eat fish and krill. We enjoyed watching a video of penguins sliding into and jumping/rocketing up out of the water. We compared our height to a male Emperor penguin (abotu 4 feet tall) and found some children were shorter while others were about the same size or even taller than the penguin. We did some "penguin" bowling and practiced counting and writing numbers. For the artic region we found there were many animals including polar bears, seals, walrus, artic fox, artic hare, and puffins. We looked on our classroom globe to find the north and south polar regions. We did some "ice" fishing in the sensory table--the snow melted quickly but the water was chilly. Here is a peek at our week:
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