In art on Monday we created our clay penguins. The kids sat at tables in their groups of which penguin they were studying and we used non-fiction books to help us create accurate clay figures.
Here is a preview of how some of them look! We will paint them and add details next Monday to make them look more like their different types of penguins.
Mrs. Gore's class just finished a penguin study so when they asked to share with our class, the kids were very excited! Her class chose to study the following four types of penguins: Adelie, Macaroni, Emperor & King. Each group came up and read what they wrote about their type of penguin while it was projected up on the Promethean Board at the same time.
The picture below left says "The penguin eats fish, krill, and squid".
"The penguin is black and white."
The Macaroni group wrote, "The Macaroni penguin has yellow eyebrows".
Their class also created clay penguins for the four types that they studied as well as created their habitats.
We also continued our polar animal rescue. We have a few more students who still need to do this and once they do, we will switch it to just a Penguin rescue!
We also made our "Book of Penguins" to share at our open house. We made a page for each of the five types of penguins we have been studying; Little, Galapagos, Chinstrap, Macaroni, Emperor. On each page we listed the name of the type of penguin, how tall it is and where it lives. Here are some examples of each of the types of penguins page.
We also decided that since we will be creating the penguins habitats along with our clay penguins that we wanted to create the penguin predators and prey. Just like we did with the penguins, we used non-fiction books to help us create accurate representations with the clay. The predators that we made were the Leopard Seal, Killer Whale and a Skua. The prey we made were fish, krill and squid.
Tabitha was very proud of her squid!
We also added our labels to our maps to show where each type of penguin lives. As you will see below in the pictures from our bulletin board, we gave each type of penguin a color and then placed that color on the map where they live.
As you can see we used orange for the Emperor penguin, yellow for the Macaroni penguin, black for the Chinstrap penguin, pink for the Galapagos penguin & red for the Little penguin. We are finally finished with our map and the students are very proud of their hard work! We put up the map and the penguins in the hallway and we have gotten so many compliments on them!
Another way we have been preparing for our open house is writing our books. We have been writing persuasive books to try and persuade someone, either our parents, teachers, etc., to let us get a penguin. As you can see in Hayden's example below, her title page lists her title, "Can I have a pet penguin?" along with by Hayden and an illustration.
Her second page says, "Can I have a pet penguin? I will clean up after it." We have been talking about ways that we can persuade our parents, teachers, etc. to allow us to get these pet penguins.
We are excited to share our stories with you all at our open house on Friday, February 28th at 8:30am. We hope to see you all there!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant
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