Penguins: Writing, Free Books, Penguin Cams

Last week was a fiction week in reading so we focused on Tacky! If you haven't read Tacky stories to your kids, do it! They can't get enough! There are so many versions to chose from which makes it even better!

This week we are focusing on nonfiction and we are still using the penguin theme. We have been writing facts about penguins.

If you don't have nonfiction books on penguins, We Give Books has some great nonfiction books on penguins. Below are the books they have. You can click on the title to go to the website/book:

See How They Grow - Penguins

DK Readers: Emperor Penguins

Emperor Penguins

My kids LOVE having the opportunity to watch LIVE PENGUINS!!! Here are a couple of websites to check out:

SeaWorld Penguin Cam

Animal Planet Penguin Cam

Enjoy your day!

January Sight Word Mats

Here are our January sight word mats...penguin style!

Love them!!! The white circles are supposed to be snow, but they don't really look like it. Still turned out cute though!

We only have one more month of sight words after this. =(  I guess we will start doing monthly word family mats after the February words.

FREEBIE - Penguin Number Order Activity!

I'm putting off things I really need to do, by creating a FREEBIE for you! Hope you like it!

It includes two number order activities - by ones and tens. Here it is:

Click HERE to grab it.

I guess I should actually start to get things done now since we go back to school tomorrow.

To Do List:
1. Laundry
2. Print, print, print - new things for centers and my new homework calendar
3. Laminate, laminate, laminate - because our laminator is broken at school =(
4. Think about taking down Take down the Christmas tree/decorations (maybe I'll put it off one more week - I hate taking it down)
5. Pack up all of my new goodies I got during the break - love that Amazon still lets you shop when you're stuck in bed!!
6. A lot of other things I can't think of!