Hands of a Child

As is pretty obvious from previous posts, I really like the project packs from In the Hands of a Child. I've really been loving them this week as I've purchased several more. In the Hands of a Child is celebrating it's 400th (wow!) project pack with a sale. There's a giveaway for the 600th order, and if you use the code 400thPP you'll get $4 off any project pack. This is a great sale!

Valentine's Day prep

Be prepared for lots of links to fun Valentine's Day activities. I can't believe I've put this much into essentially one day, but I've found such fun things. I can't wait to get to them!

Week 4

Week 4 was our first week in our penguin unit. We're doing penguins on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of these weeks due to Bee's preK schedule. Most of the content was from the In the Hands of a Child Penguin Project Pack. We covered (at preK and K level) most of the information in there.

We are learning a bit about each of the 17 species of penguins as well. Bug thinks Chinstrap penguins are really cool, and Bee is partial to Macaroni penguins. We do about 2 or 3 each day we study penguins and I give them the cards in this material from Sea World . We'll be doing more with the Sea World information next week but they think it's great to collect their penguin cards.

One of the favorite things of the week was trying to waddle like a penguin while balancing a large plastic egg on our feet. It was funny to watch everyone try to figure out how to make the egg stay on. They, however, had more fun when we played penguin follow the leader. We'd waddle through the house in a line and then flop down to our bellies to slide like a penguin. Lots of giggles were heard around here. They even had to demonstrate for Grandma and Grandpa when they saw them during the week.

Much of our content for the week aside from the project pack, came from this site.

Most of our other material comes from here. We did the About Penguins worksheet, the easy version of the Labeling an African Penguin worksheet, My Penguin book, the Penguin life cycle sheet, the Penguin Connect the Dots, and the Penguin Dots.

The kids loved this song. However, this song was the most popular:
I'm a Little Penguin

(sung to tune of "I'm a Little teapot.")

I'm a little penguin black and white,

I waddle to the left and I waddle to the right.

I cannot fly but I can swim, so I waddle to the water and jump right in!

I found it here. Acting it out is lots of fun!

This week we're continuing the penguin theme but taking a break on Tuesday to talk about groundhog's day.