Do you study penguins in your classroom? If, so, we’ve got two fantastic teaching resources you can add to your penguin-themed classroom activities!
Penguin Themed Math Practice
It’s great when students can be up and moving about, working independently and engaged in fun and motivating activities. It is a lot to manage correctly, so that is my goal! My focus is to include more of these types of learning activities for the rest of the year.
I made this new Scoot activity to go along with our upcoming penguin theme! The kids will be scooting around from desk to desk working on two digit addition without seeing it as work!
Many teachers have trouble accessing a colored printer, so this one is made in black and white and color!
I think your students are going to love it too! I can just imagine them parading around the room like little penguins!
Penguin Themed Book Companion
There are also many printables in this Tacky the Penguin pack you might like to go along with a winter penguin unit! Kids just love wacky Tacky!
See this post for more on Tacky and a freebie too!
Click on the images for each if you’d like to read more in the store!
Penguin Activities that Include Printable Pages
As much as I am not a big fan of dittos, often there just needs to be that piece of paper to hold the students accountable for their learning, to assess strengths and weaknesses, and monitor that the learning goal has been achieved for documentation purposes.
I think it is crucial to spend time teaching my students how to work accurately and efficiently on pencil and paper tasks, because the majority of their learning activities in the upper grades still take that form.
Sending home that piece of paper also helps me to communicate regularly with parents about the learning activities that the students are participating in during the school day! I cannot always trust that parents are asking or that 7 year old students are explaining it well! 🙂
As so….I LOVE printables that are meaningful pieces of paper not busy work dittos!
That’s what you will find in all of my classroom resources!
A Freebie Math Activity for Your Penguin Week:
For a cute little penguin math freebie you can use with your class too. It’s a mini marshmallow snowball toss activity for practicing sums to 20.
Students toss mini marshmallows across the work mat. Some will land on the mat and some will not. These amounts set the stage for wonderful addition and subtraction practice! The activity also comes with a printable recording sheet so students can practice writing equations.
Have fun with your penguin activities!
