Preparations- Polar Animal Open House

This week we had a long list of "Thing's to Do."  Together as a class, we made a list and had fun checking things off our list once they were completed.
One of the things that needed to be checked off our list was for the students to finish the cover to their modeled Eric Carle book.  Their polar animal inspired Eric Carle book was completed but we needed to complete our cover.  Last week we studied Eric Carle's illustration/painting techniques.  Just like Eric Carle, we painted tissue paper with watercolor paints. 

This week after the paper dried, they cut out pieces of the painted to make the polar animal for our covers. 

You will see more of their final covers in our Polar Region Open House/Presentations blog post.

A couple weeks ago, student sculpted their polar animal in Mrs. Pinto's classroom.  Students used their "scientific eye" illustrations to help sculpt their animals.
Mrs. Pinto fired them in the kiln, and this week students painted their animals (another task to check off our "to do" list. 

 

Below you will see the students painting their sculptures.  

 Penguins

 Lynxes

Narwhals

Leopard Seals

Students also continued creating habitat's for their polar animal. 

Spraying a "glacier" with blue watercolor paint. 

Adding their animal sculpture to their habitats.

Students also continued to work on their presentation projects.  Penguin and leopard seal groups made a big book, narwhal group wanted to make a big poster, and lynxes wrote a cheer. 

Leopard Seal Big Book

 Narwhal Poster

Penguins Big Book

 

Lynxes cheer

The students have put a lot of thought, and hard work into their projects for this study.  Take a look at our open house/presentation published post to see all their completed projects. 

Have a great week!

Mrs. Julie Atkin

Preparations- Polar Animal Open House

Polar Region/Animal Open House & Project Presentations

Friday was our Polar Region/Animal Open House.  On Thursday, the students worked hard to get our classroom clean, prepared, and set up for our visitors.  Below you can see some photos of how our classroom was all set up! 

Narwhal Habitat 

 

 

 Leopard Seal Habitat

 

 Lynxes Habitat

 Penguin Habitats (Macaroni Penguin's and Emperor Penguins)

 

 

Books for families to read.

 We had over 20 families represented at our open house.  It was a HUGE success.  Thank you for taking the time to get involved in your child's education.  

As part of our project plan, students said they wanted to share their learning with other kindergarten classes from our school.  I emailed the classroom teachers and we ended up having 6 kindergarten classes that could visit to learn about the polar regions and their animals.  Each group of students got up and presented their project.  When our friends were done presenting, the visiting kindergarten students had the opportunity to walk around our classroom to observe the students animals and habitats.  Our friends then had the opportunity to read their Eric Carle book and their non-fiction book to the other students from other classes. 

Lynxes performing their cheer!

 

 

Penguin group reading their  BIG book. 

 

Narwhal group reading their BIG poster.

Leopard Seals reading their BIG book. 

Below you will see the students sharing their books and projects with the students from other kindergarten classrooms. 

The students did a great job listening and speaking during their presentations.  It took some time for them all to get their voices loud enough but we got there!  It was great practice for future projects!  We look forward to choosing a new project & study.  Check back later to see what we are up to in kindergarten!

Have a great week and stay warm!

Mrs. Julie Atkin