Penguins

This week we learned about Penguins. This is one of my favorite units to teach! Some of the kids favorite things we learned about were that not all penguins live where it is cold, parents take turns keeping the egg/baby on their feet to stay warm, and that parents feed their babies food from their own bellies! We also watched a few videos showing penguins doing penguin things. 

On Friday, we did an experiment to show the difference between baby penguin feathers and adult penguin feathers and how adults can swim in freezing cold water! I hope your child remembered the big word we learned- WATERPROOF! When penguins are first born, they grow fluffy, thick feathers. Their feathers are meant to keep them warm on land, not in the water.  After a few months they begin to lose their baby feathers and grow adult feathers. We learned this by first putting our hands in cold water with regular knit gloves on, like baby penguin feathers. Our hands were cold and wet. Then we changed gloves and put rubber gloves on top of them. When we dipped our hands in the water again, our hands were still warm and dry!

Today was Badger day! We got to go out in the hall to polka and Jump Around! The kids had a blast! (Luckily, I showed a video or two of how to polka before we went out!)

Our sight words this week were: is, little

Next week: she, was

Don't forget about hat day on Friday! Please send $1 to support the American Cancer Society if you would like to wear a hat!

Remember to return your January Book-It Calendar!

A Visit to Antarctica :)

The kids are standing next to the Emperor penguin, the biggest penguin of all. They loved to see how tall they were compared to them! The other penguins are the King, Blackfooted, Macaroni, and Adalie.

Melted Snow/ Ice Experiment

Some of our friends like to eat the snow and ice outside... and not the freshly fallen stuff! One day last week I saw some kids eating snow and sucking on "ice balls," so we brought those in just to see what kind of stuff is actually in there when it melts! Take a look for yourselves!

And I am sure you are wondering if they stopped eating snow and ice... and the answer is NO! They didn't want to drink the water, but still are eating the snow...

Fridays With Buddies

The kids are feeling so much more comfortable with their buddies now that we are into January. Some of them sure love to get as close as they can to them! 

His substitute buddy for the day :)

Classic Toy Train Exhibit at the Rollo Jamison Museum

Classic Toy Train Exhibit

at the

Rollo Jamison Museum

405 E. Main St., Platteville  (608) 348-3301

www.mining.jamison.museum

Free Admission

 Sat. Feb. 7    10-4         Sun. Feb. 8    10-4

 Sat. Feb. 14  10-4         Sun. Feb. 15  10-4

Two operating 8’x 28’ layouts with Standard and O gauge trains, engines, cars, and buildings and reproduction

classic tin-type engines, cars, and accessories

Floor trains play area

Bring your O gauge engine and run on our layout

Sight Words

Here is a list of the sight words we have learned so far. I will be updating this post each week when we add our new ones.

I

can
the
we
see
a

like
to
and
go you
do
you
do
my
are

he
is
little

with

she
was
have
for
of
they
said
want
me
here
this
what
help
too
has
play
New  words this week:
look
where

Caps for a Cure

Student Council will be sponsoring Caps for a Cure to raise money for cancer research on Friday, February 6th.  If you would like to participate and wear your favorite cap to school, please send $1 to school by February 3rd. All money collected will be donated to the American Cancer Society.