ARCTIC UNIT STUDY

This week K requested that our Unit be on Arctic Animals. This stemmed from the week before when we did our Bear Unit Study and learned a bit about polar bears. 

The following was a great treasure hunt type activity that K loved doing!

I printed off the cards and I randomly placed them around the room. Then I had K take the recording worksheet with him around the room to find the numbered cards & write the name of the animal on the worksheet. He loves this kind of treasure hunt game!  

I ended up changing fox to Arctic fox, bear to polar bear and whale to Orca whale just to give him a little more writing.

It was a big hit with him and even Little M loved the picture cards and played with them!

 

 

Here are some pictures if them working with this activity:

This was another great freebie I found while searching for activities called Artic Odd & Even.   I skipped doing this activity with K because he is a little advanced in math but it would be great for grade 1 math/for review.

 

K used this penguin themed writing paper to make his Santa Letter. Unfortunately I forgot to snap some pictures of this but it turned out really cute with this paper:

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/christmas-penguin-writing-paper

 

I found this awesome Arctic Word Sort freebie as well and it was a hit too!

K sorted the words into columns based on it's number of syllables. Here he is clapping out syllables.

 

This  Arctic fox mini packet was a great addition to our unit as well.

 

We used information from the following site to fill in these pages:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/photos/arctic-animals/#/arctic-fox-springfall-ngk1108-ca03_14249_600x450.jpg

Here are some videos we ended up watching to help us learn about Arctic animals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=749mFttlSuE

http://discoverandlearn.blogspot.ca/2010/01/animals-in-winter.html

A polar bear stalking a seal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0DCOTaZgtA

Orcas swimming in the water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnNv2VsKPgc

 

This is a really adorable Walrus craft that we didn't get around to making yet....but we will because it is so cute & when we do I will post some pictures!

 

Here are a couple of really great sensory bin ideas. I have the ice in the freezer getting ready to try this great sensory bin from http://crayonboxchronicles.com/

 

 

and this one looks like so much fun too!

 Pictures of the kids with the sensory bins are still to come. I hope you have as much fun with this unit study as we have!