We read "In Arctic Waters" by Laura Crawford and Ben Hodson,
and also "What lives in the Arctic?" by Oona Gaarder-Juntti.
We made a penguin shape craft. I had cut the penguin body shape, flippers(wings) from the black construction paper, chest from white construction paper, beak and feet from orange construction paper.This was pretty much an independent task for R.
An eskimo craft for which I had cut the jacket and pants from blue construction paper, his jacket hood from coffee filter, face from a brown construction paper. We glued cotton on the jackets and pants for the fur.
We didn't get the time to do the Igloo craft by using cut styrofoam ball and marshmallows. Also, I wanted to do the Iceberg activity from here.
However, inspired from My Montessori Journey, we also made a book of arctic animals. I had downloaded pictures of arctic animals form the internet. R was wasked to cut and color and paste them on the paglets to form a book. The animals which we used in the book were polar bear, walrus, seal, arctic fox, aractic hare, beluga whale and arctic fox. R also wrote the names of the various arctic animals underneath their pictures. This was good writing practice for him.
We also did a Polar maze as they are good for fine motor skills, which I got from 2 Teaching Mommies. They have lots of printables for each theme. I also liked their footprints matching printable. Hopefully we shall be doing it next year.
Also, the arctic tub of polar animals would be a great add to this unit.
and also "What lives in the Arctic?" by Oona Gaarder-Juntti.
An eskimo craft for which I had cut the jacket and pants from blue construction paper, his jacket hood from coffee filter, face from a brown construction paper. We glued cotton on the jackets and pants for the fur.
We didn't get the time to do the Igloo craft by using cut styrofoam ball and marshmallows. Also, I wanted to do the Iceberg activity from here.
However, inspired from My Montessori Journey, we also made a book of arctic animals. I had downloaded pictures of arctic animals form the internet. R was wasked to cut and color and paste them on the paglets to form a book. The animals which we used in the book were polar bear, walrus, seal, arctic fox, aractic hare, beluga whale and arctic fox. R also wrote the names of the various arctic animals underneath their pictures. This was good writing practice for him.
We also did a Polar maze as they are good for fine motor skills, which I got from 2 Teaching Mommies. They have lots of printables for each theme. I also liked their footprints matching printable. Hopefully we shall be doing it next year.
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