So this year I have really been battling the winter blues. The best way for me to get through them is to take on a fun new project for my kiddos. I came up with the idea of having a penguin day at school. I encouraged the kids to dress up in black and white and to get ready to be mommy and daddy penguins for the day. Then I bought plastic Easter eggs and put a beak and googly eyes on them and turned them into baby penguins. I gave each kid their baby and told them it was their job to take care of them all day. It was so much fun! They were so careful with their babies and always kept their eye on them. Some of the kids were putting their eggs in their socks, hats, pockets, pencil boxes just to keep them safe. The best part of the day is when I pulled out the snack. I told them we would eat what penguins eat. I opened a can of sardines. The kids about died! We smelled them and poked them and even pulled one out but decided they didn't look very yummy. So we went with Goldfish crackers and washed them down with Arctic water (blue cool-aid) It was such a fun day and it covered what we needed to learn about arctic animals and Antarctica!
Don't you LOVE this picture!
We practiced waddling with our babies on our feet. We decided that was not an easy thing to do!
How do those penguins do it?
What good mommy and daddy penguins I have!
We even pretended that we could slide on our tummies just like they do.
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You are so amazing!!! How lucky are these kids to have you as their teacher! Wow!!
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