Plenty of Penguin Ideas and Printables

In January, we love, Love, LOVE to teach about penguins. They aren't icky or gross like the spiders we study, creepy or spooky like the bats...so it is much more enjoyable to teach! Who doesn't love to learn about cute, cuddly penguins and watch them waddle!

 I've been working on {my} perfect penguin packet that I know my firsties will just swoon over!

 

 

This full unit is jam packed with first grade skill work for phonics, reading, poetry, writing, grammar, social studies, and some fun activities as well!

 

ELA Printables:
 Penguin Pals ABC Order
 Playful Penguin Punctuation
 What Can Penguins Do? (verb practice)
 Iceberg Noun and Verb sort
 Cocoa Contractions
 Assorted Penguin Long Vowel practice

Poem

Story Elements (made to go with any fiction book about penguins)

 

 

 

 

 



 Social Studies Printables:

Penguins can/have/are chart
 Label that Penguin
 Where Do Penguins Live?  (world map)
 Penguin fact/opinion writing craftivity

All About Penguins book
   Penguin Trivia (facts about penguins recording sheet)
   3 facts and a fib (recording sheet)
   Penguin types (fact recording sheet) {4 types} 

 

 

 And my favorite part of all:

 

Throughout the 2 weeks that we study penguins, we put together this book piece by piece.

It includes a penguin trivia page, 3 facts and a fib, and 3 informational pages to record facts about the different types of penguins (Emperor, Chinstrap, and Rockhopper...and a blank one).

 

 Writing Printables:

How to Make a Snowman creative writing
 If I Was a Penguin (creative writing prompt) {2 choices}
    

Fun Activities:

Penguin Pie (ice cream activity)

 Word Search

 

 

 Enjoying our Penguin Pie!

 

 

We have such FUN with this unit that I would love to share the fun with one lucky person!

 

Leave a comment sharing your favorite part of January AND your email address.
Thanks to all of you for playing along. I actually chose 6 lucky winners! I appreciate you all!

 

If you don't win, check it out on sale in my TpT store!

 

Penguins Galore!

This week concluded our penguin unit {sad day}.  The kiddos just eat this unit up...learning something new and amazing about these creatures everyday!  I am sad to see them go too.  Even though the penguin fun is over, more fun is on the way with the 100th day and Valentine's slowly creeping up!

This is my second year to teach all about penguins.  I decided to create my first (rather large--by my creating standards) themed unit! It was *so much fun* to use something I created in my own classroom! 

 Our unit is 2 weeks long.  The first week we spend learning all about penguins.  The second week is spent on the different species of penguins.  Here is a look at our 'All About Penguins' book from my packet.



We did a little creative penguin writing. We read the book If I Was a Penguin then wrote about what we would do if we were a penguin.

 

 

 

We talked about the differences between fact and opinions and completed our fact and opinion eggs.

 

 And we ended our week by eating a little "penguin pie" or chocolate ice cream bars!!

 

 

Happy weekend!

 

 

Penguins on Parade

We are half way through our penguin unit and the kiddos are {loving} it! There are so many neat things about these creatures that amaze me every time I teach about them.  My firsties are teaching me a bit about penguins too.  I mentioned in an earlier post that our first grade team sends home a penguin project where the families have to choose a type of penguin, make a life-size replica, and come up with 3 interesting facts.  Some kids really do find some interesting facts!

Here is a peek at my creative firsties' penguins! They blew me away this year!

  

Yes, this penguin is sitting on a slab of granite!

 

Can you tell his dad is a graphic design artist!?

 

This Emperor is over 4 feet tall!

 

Furry friends!

  

 

Later this week I will be back with a penguin craft/writing activity and what we put inside of our "All About Penguins" packet!

 

{My} Perfect Penguin Packet

I just can't bear to think that in less than 12 hours from now I will be listening to my alarm go off as I take the dreaded step out of bed....to go back to work tomorrow, ugh! Our district got out a week before Christmas, but how is it that 2 weeks have f--l--o--w--n by already!?  I have thought about my firsties a time or two and can't wait to hear their stories! Ok, enough complaining already...I know, I know!

In January, we love, Love, LOVE to teach about penguins. They aren't icky or gross like the spiders we study, so it is much more enjoyable to teach! Our whole grade level sends home a penguin project for the kiddos to complete with their family.  They have to create a life-size penguin and do a little report (trust me, it's not much).  I just love the look when they all come in and it looks like a winter wonderland in our hallway...that's because we don't get a winter wonderland down here in south Texas, sad day I know!!

I've been working on {my} perfect penguin packet that I know my firsties will just swoon over! And I'm here to share it with you!! It's my biggest product to date and I can't help but say I am one.proud.momma! It has first grade skill work (long vowels, verbs, nouns, contractions, alphabetical ordering, labeling) some creative writing prompts, graphic organizers, a poem, social studies printables and my favorite...'My All About Penguins Book'.

Let me break it down for you:

*Penguin Pals ABC Order
*Playful Penguin Punctuation
*What Can Penguins Do? (verb practice)
*Iceberg Noun and Verb sort
*Cocoa Contractions
*Assorted Penguin Long Vowel practice
*Penguin Pie (ice cream activity)
*Word Search
*Poem
*How to Make a Snowman creative writing
*If I Was a Penguin (creative writing prompt) {2 choices}
    -with art activity on my blog
*Story Elements (made to go with any fiction book about penguins)
*Penguins can/have/are chart
*Label that Penguin
*Where Do Penguins Live?  (world map)
*Penguin fact/opinion writing craftivity

*All About Penguins book
  -Penguin Trivia (facts about penguins recording sheet)
  -3 facts and a fib (recording sheet)
  -Penguin types (fact recording sheet) {4 types}

 

Since we just rang in a new year, I would love to give this bad boy away to the first person who comments telling me what they are most looking forward to this year. GO!

It's now available in my TPT store for all you penguin enthusiasts like me!

 

I wanted to share one more thing with you. It's a cute penguin craftivity my kiddos loved last year.  It goes with one of the two creative writing templates in my packet. 

 

 

Hope you found something useful from reading this post. As for me, I'm off to eat dinner and get things ready for work tomorrow, sigh!