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Penguin fun

2/8/2013

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In Mrs. Childress' classroom we have been studying penguins. We started by reading our Scholastic News magazine about penguins.  We used the Scholastic News issue as our main source to learn about penguins. The students each chose four facts about penguins from the magazine and put them into sentences using their own words. After writing the paragraph, we took our work to the computer lab to publish. One of my big goals for my classroom is to become familiar with the computer and to improve our typing. Computers are such a big part of life today and I want my students to have access to that form of communication!  We made the cute penguin pictures by cutting out a template, ripping papers and gluing. It was great fine motor practice! (the idea came from a teacher's blog I found on Pinterest). 

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In keeping with our theme of penguins, I made this cute penguin out of a small box I found at school (using this idea). To reinforce the idea that penguins eat fish, I made small fish and wrote sight words on them. In our reading groups, I had the students read the word on the fish and then feed it to the penguin. It was a lot of fun and highly motivating to the students as they really wanted to give each fish to the penguin!

-Mrs. Childress

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