Penguin anchor chart

My kindergarten friends have really enjoyed studying Penguins. I am so thrilled with the amount of information that they have learned abo...

A kindergarten blog that will share what goes on in our classroom.

I just love the winter months in Kindergarten! There are so many exciting things to learn about. :) This week, my class has been learning all about penguins. We began the week with a schema activation activity. First, I made an anchor chart with a picture of a penguin. I asked the kiddos to tell me anything that they thought they knew about penguins. Some of their responses were really accurate, and some were just downright cute! I recorded their responses on sticky notes and put them on the…

This past week as we read books about penguins. We made tree maps about the stories and enjoyed reading, listening and learning. Towards the end of the week, we began writing about penguins. This took around 3 days from the beginning to the end. Listed below are samples of our work. We made a tree map of the things penguins are, penguins have and penguins can do. The pictures are from Kids Soup. Here is the penguin writing paper I created. Get it here. Samples of my students' writing Penguin…

Happy February! Wow! I can't believe that January is already over. This has been a whirlwind start to 2015. During the winter months I love to teach informational reading and writing through polar animals (as you can tell from my last few posts!). After studying polar bears for a few weeks, we have switched it up and started our Antarctic penguin unit. Today I wanted to share an informational penguin chart that my students and I created together. I used their ideas from reading informational…

Emperor Penguin information chart

It felt so good to be back in my classroom with my students this week! They worked so hard and I was so wiped out by the end of the week. G...

1.) Cut butcher paper to size. (I had to double-layer my paper since I was covering a window)

I'm so excited to share about Penguin Day and the activities we did in the classroom. Download the Ice Castle Observation page for FREE!

Many of you live where you never get snow days, especially for 1-2 inches of snow. :-) Let me cheer you up with some cute penguin activities.