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World Penguin Day was this week on April 25 and conveniently we had a day about Penguins in this months Mother Goose Time box. I switched a few days around so that we could do the Penguin Day on World Penguin Day because what better way to celebrate this adorable birds special day then to learn all about them.

We started off the morning by reading the suggested story in the Teacher Guide which gave us some really good information about penguins. After reading the story we used potatoes as eggs and tried balancing them on our feet like the daddy penguins do. It was pretty hard and we gained a lot of respect for those amazing dads!


After this we played the Penguin Moves game from the Teacher Guide. It used the included pocket cube and the cube cards. This game had us waddling, hopping, and sliding to different letters and numbers as review. This was a lot of fun and a great way to get the wiggles out first thing in the morning. They especially liked the sliding part and used the kitchen floor to slide like penguins on their bellies.


We also did a Penguin Invitation to create that produced some very cute art that is now hanging on the pantry. They both used the materials in very different ways. My son liked this one a lot and carefully planned his project out and didn't try to copy his sister this time.



After lunch we watched a Penguin documentary that I found on Netflix, it has 3 hour long episodes so we only watched the first one today. My daughter really was interested in it so she will watch the other two later. It did not hold her brothers attention very long. After the documentary we did the Diving Birds experiment. We love when there are Science cards, they are always so much fun. We took out our observation journals and they drew pictures of the experiment set up and then made predictions about what they thought would happen. The experiment used one container of water and one container of soda water then we were supposed to drop raisins into each cup and watch what happens.  My daughters prediction was pretty much right on. She predicted that the bubbles in the soda would lift the raisins up and make them float. After observing we saw that the bubbles collected on the raisins crinkly skin and then eventually lifted it up. Once the raisins reached the top the bubbles began popping and then the raisins sank back down to the bottom. This repeated for quite awhile. They really had fun watching the diving raisins.




We had a great day learning about Penguins and we are almost done with our Birds and Eggs month. Next up will be all about bugs in May. Cant wait to see what awesome lessons are in store for us!


*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*



  

  


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