Karma Wilson | "A Stitch in Time"

So from platypuses to penguins… we are truly into the “P” critters!! So of course it is time for a resource blog!

Free lapbooks!

Penguin Lapbook at LapbookLessons.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins Unit and Lapbook Printables at Homeschoolshare.com

Worksheets

Penguin Notebooking Pages at The Notebooking Fairy
Colouring pages for Mr. Popper’s Penguins the movie at Education.com
Grid Copy Penguin at Activity Village
Penguin Color by Sight Words at Education.com
Getting to the Zoo: What Time Is It? at Education.com
Itsy Bitsy Penguin Book at KidZone
Labelling an African Penguin at KidZone
What I Learned About Penguins at KidZone Crafts
Word Search (hard) at DLTK
Emperor Penguin Colouring Page at Animals Town
Snowflake printables at Snowflakes for Christmas
A Penguin Grows Up at Teaching Heart
Penguin Coloring Page at Heather Sybil Chavez
Map of the US at FreeUsandWorldMaps.com
Antartica Colouring Pages at Education.com

Helpful Websites

Penguin Beach at the London Zoo
Penguin Songs and Poems at KidZone
SeaWorld Teacher’s guide at Seaworld.org
Field Trip Site at Hud – this was suggested by the Mr. Popper’s lapbook site. Quite a good resource for some fun virtual government related tours.
Our Poem/Song about penguins at DLTK

Books

What’s in the Egg, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
Penguin Says Please by Michael Dahl
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
The Pebble First Guide to Penguins by Katy R. Kudela
National Geographic Science Readers: Penguins by Anne Schreiber
Little Penguin The Emperor of Antartica by Jonathon London
A Penguin Story by Antoinette Portis
Face to Face With Penguins by Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott
If You Were a Penguin by Wendell and Florence Minor
Life Cycle of a Penguin by Lisa Trumbauer
I am a Penguin by Karen Durrie
My Penguin Osbert by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Turtle’s Penguin Day by Valerie Gorbachev
Penguins by Lynn M. Stone
Poles Apart by Elaine Scott
Ready Freddy #19, The Penguin Problem by Abby Klein

Crafts

Paper Loop Penguins at Crafty-Crafted.com
Enjoy a colour wheel with Art Projects for Kids. This is not so much a craft but a simple printable set up with all the colours, complementary, cold and warm… great illustration of it.
Penguin finger puppets at Fantastic Find

Games

Penguin Parade File Folder Game at FileFolderFun.com

Of course there is always a video to supplement. If you want the cliff notes version of Captain Cook (the explorer our first penguin is named after)? Check out Crash Course World History on youTube.

We did have a video to watch:

Really Wild Animals: Polar Prowl by National Geographic

No video to embed, but if you go to Amazon… Dirty Jobs included looking after Penguins at a zoo in an episode HERE. As there is a misunderstanding as to WHAT Captain Cook is early in the book, there is a small section on the dodo… I decided to do a little searching for some resources…

A Dodo colouring page at Education.com
Fun Fact page at The Jungle Store
Extinct Birds: Dodo at Animal Planet

We had two videos we watched, TED only is relevant to the process of a Mythbusters host creating his own skeleton but some amazing shots of it and his reference.

And a museum short from Manchester

Some of the penguins were named after obvious famous people. We watched videos about some of the more interesting (to our boys) characters… First Columbus.

Ferdinand Magellan

And two about Robert Falcon Scott

Chapter 13 deals with music AND training animals. So there is the music link for The Merry Widow Waltz HERE. And then Schubert’s Military March on youTube.

For trained animals we chose to take a peek at the trained cormorants in China. There is a list on the lapbook file of other options but this one seemed to scream our kids’ interest.

Mr. Popper starts his travels with the penguins in Seattle. So of course we had to check out a tourist video..

For all of our Easter resources please refer to the blog entry titled “Easter Resources“.

April 1-2

Not emotional but educational… and more importantly – LAUNDRY!

Looks like an episode out of hoarding but it actually is a week and a half of laundry for 7!

We tricked/convinced the twins to watch half of the first load!

But first… MONDAY… April Fools was a non issue here… except for Anthony (god son) contacting a bunch of people with his joke and getting trouble with his mom. I don’t talk to the kids about it at this point. We have enough problems with behaviours right now, I would rather not tempt fate! BUT we did make our April poster… again talking about spring is still somewhat theoretic but we managed.

April

We started working on our Easter assembly only to RUN OUT of glue stick!!! WHAT??? I could have sworn that I had enough to last a while yet. Which means I probably do but have misplaced where I put them. So instead we started on Wild Kratts… 3 episodes!

Bats

Zebra

Firefly

The boys worked on copywork out of our Julie Andrews’ Treasury – The Easter Bunny by Rupert S. Holland.

Poetry

We also had some Easter games I picked up at the Dollar Tree.

Gaming together

Emanuel got a head start on the penguins with his own two page illustration.

Penguins at play

Tuesday was a Ken at work day, and the kids and I started right on the penguins with Mr. Popper’s Penguins. Again I am going to do the resource page at the end! This was Emanuel’s suggestion, he has always loved penguins best. We had some worksheets and a second book from the library… What’s in the Egg, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman.