Wrapping up Winter we recently studied the Arctic.
Here are some of the activities, projects and works we did:
Winter exploration work on the wall with winter images.
Spooning/Scooping "snowballs".
Two works that are always present in my bi-weekly topics (animal habitats) are the felt story board with felt animals from the appropriate biome and the biome table which houses a mock habitat (3d or pictorial sometimes with real plants, dirt, sand, water, etc.) and small plastic animals which the child can interact with. This habitat is blue foam for a lake and a water hole (the killer whale is on top of it here) and a combination of batting and cotton balls all hot glued onto on old, stained art tray.
Arctic Habitat and animals.
And even though I could not have a frozen arctic tundra for the little animals to live on I wanted to bring in some snow and ice from outside for the students to interact with. We talked about the arctic people and animals and then got to play with snow, the whole time I talked about how it is cold and wet and what the people and animals of the arctic adapt to this.
Our hallway art for the unit:
Aurora Borealis with igloo and penguins (we talked about both the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis)- water colored sky glued onto white paper. Then we colored the penguins and glued them and the igloos onto the snowy white ground. Polar bear paintings- we started with BLUE polar bears....polar bears are NOT BLUE. So we HAD to paint them WHITE. This was a really fun and goofy art project.
That about wraps it up, next up is grasslands and Springtime (although as I look out the window this day after Spring officially began it is snowing...).
