Penguin Counting Fun! (AM Session)

This morning, we read the story Five Little Penguins Slipping on the Ice.  This story was a little like "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed."  It was a great story to practice counting backwards or taking one away.

Another story we read was If You Were a Penguin.  We talked about some things that penguins do that we can also do!

We worked on vocabulary and visual discrimination skills while playing a "What's Missing? Penguin" game.

Then we visited our final center - fishing for numbers, playing a upper and lowercase letter matching game, or watching live penguins on a webcam and drawing/labeling our observations.

Of course we played!  Pokey pinning was still the activity of choice for most students.

During snack, we got to use special penguin mats instead of our normal snack mats.  There were different penguins on the mats.  Each penguin had a special number on its wing.  We had to count out that number of fish into the penguin's belly.  There were even some special pizza-flavored fish!  Afterwards we got to eat them!  Yum!

After snack, we spent some time reviewing the letter Aa.  We read a book and then worked on making our letter Aa alphabet book pages by stamping animals on the Aa!

We also enjoyed doing a penguin song and pretending to waddle like a penguin!

Due to school being closed early, the morning session got to stay at school a little longer and eat lunch in the cafeteria for the first time!  It was exciting for them and good practice for when they go to Kindergarten!

I missed my afternoon friends and hope that everyone stays safe and warm at home!