Projects, projects and more...

What a great set of projects. It was apparent the Gators knew many facts about penguins!! It has been fun to watch them learn, pick favorites and identify species they see in movies and books!!  Here are the final projects...

More Penguin Games and Fun!!

We had another round of penguin games today made by some very crafty Gators!!!  We will all get a chance to rotate through a center of the games and try our hand at them very soon!  The creativity is amazing!!  Bravo!

Racing Penguins!!  

Move along the board and answer questions to reach
Finish!!

Penguin Game--Take 5 cards.  As you move around the board
and land on a question, you may cover it with the answer
card from your hand.  First person to use all of their
cards and reach home wins!!!

Penguin Trivia...roll the die, answer a question based on the color of your square.
If correct, you earn a puzzle piece!

"Penguins and Ladders in a Rookery"

Using Tamarind seed halves, children shake them out and count only the white sides
to determine the number of spaces to move!!

Penguin Games!!

You have heard of Reindeer Games, but 1KC got a treat today!  We learned 5 new Penguin Games!!  They were:  Chutes and Penguins, Penguin Memory, Penguins Paradise, Fish for Dinner and The Penguin Game!!!
We all got to see and hear the make-up and directions and several Gators were selected by each creator to demonstrate!!  I am amazed!!!

Knowing your math facts
 is a plus in this game!!

Hand painted glass pebbles 
for use as game markers

Land on a star and you must act like a penguin!!

Find the matching facts!!

Love the recycled and painted medicine cups as game pieces!!!

Fish for Dinner...Catch a fish with the penguin pole, answer the question
correctly and you have a fish to keep for dinner!!!

Pretty, Warm Penguins

Oh, what a fun day!!!  Penguin projects filled the tables and the excitement was electric!!!  We began our presentations with those who had costumes, as they were wearing some of it as clothing!  Three emperor penguins and 2 gentoo penguins gave reports!!

Then, we replicated an experiment we had read about in our read aloud, Ready, Freddy!  The Penguin Problem.  It involved using a tub of icy water, plastic gloves and a ziploc bag filled with shortening (lard).

Three brave Gators were able to put their hands in the icy water...one unprotected, except for a plastic glove and one gloved and wrapped inside a blubber lined bag.  We timed each one and found over a minute difference in time between the protected and unprotected hand in the 5 degree water!

One Gator braved it for over 2 minutes unprotected and was still going strong with the blubber mitt at 4:30 minutes!!!  We could see why penguins are so happy in the Antarctic!!!