Building Arctic Habitats

Today we created our arctic habitats for our polar bears.  After much planning and discussion, we were excited and ready to begin.  We invited our reading buddies to come help us with the gluing and they turned out beautifully.  We can't wait to show them to you when you visit our classrooms for our portfolio open-house next week.

 

Arctic Habitats

Today we did some planning for the arctic habitats that we will be building tomorrow.  We looked at pictures, made a list, and drew our plans in our science journals.

Show and Tell Video

As promised, here is the video to use if your child would like to practice for Show and Tell before it is their day to present.

Peek at Our Week

Our week was full of play and polar bears.  Here we are in action:

Life cycle on the SmartBoard and acting out the life cycle (newborn, baby, cub, young adult, adult)

Searching the room and collecting food for our babies

Activity Baskets:

Penguin Directed Drawing

 Guess the animal tracks in the snow

Beading like the Voyageurs

(GREAT for fine motor!)

Arctic Animal Puzzles

Voyageur Pokey Pins

Drawing Polar Bears

Sketching and painting freely are important ways that we express our creativity.  We do this often in kindergarten.  We also like to do DIRECTED DRAWING.  It involves following steps to sketch an object.  It helps us to follow directions, practice our visual discrimination (what is different from one step to the next?), strengthen our fine motor control, and practice our lines and shapes. Here are some shots of us drawing polar bears in our writing/sketch journals.