Flying Penguins?!

Today we learned about how penguins are a type of bird, but they are a special type of bird that can't fly in the sky.  We read a silly story about a penguin that wished he could fly.  The silly penguin tried all sorts of different ideas to try to fly, such as make a snow plane, wear a helicopter hat, and use a balloon.  None of them worked.  By the end of the story, the penguin discovered that if he used his flippers underwater, it would be a little like flying - only in the water instead of the sky!

We practiced swimming like a penguin too!  It was very exciting because we got to visit the gym!  In the gym we used the scooters to help us pretend to swim like a penguin.  We had to use our strong arm muscles to help pull us around the gym, which was very hard work!  Our job was to swim through the ocean to catch letter fish to feed to Miss McCabe.  The children did a nice job of helping to teach Miss McCabe the letters! :)

Afterwards we spent a little time just exploring and enjoying the scooters in the morning.  The children thought it was funny when Miss McCabe tried to catch them on the scooters in a little game of tag!

We also visited another center today - fishing for numbers, playing an upper and lowercase letter matching game, or watching penguins on a webcam and drawing/labeling our observations.

There was also playtime.  Pokey pinning was still a popular activity!

After snack, we heard about Brownie's adventures and did the counting jar.

Have a great evening! :)