Why are Polar Bears white .

First we read Polar Bear What do you Hear. In my large version . As we talked why Penguins have waxy skin the way it help with cold and water to keep them warm . Now we talk why are polar bears white . See if they can guess .

need :

pattern (i got my at Kidssoup.com)

blue paper

white paper

white paint

sponge or we used cotton balls with clothes pins to paint with

Tape

So i cut a polar bear shape out in white.

Lay it against white paper ask children can they see the polar bear .

Now lay on blue paper and ask again

Tape top down (this is so the children can left up later and see the pattern under it )

Let children sponge paint the white over the polar bear and blue paper .

When dry left up polar bear to peak and see the blue polar under . And talk about how the polar bear blends when all white and stands out when blue .

Penguins Arctic Animals

So today we started out the week on Arctic animals first we start with the globe to see where the Arctic is and talk about if cold or not there . We talk about penguins coat , waxy (we felt some wax) . Then we took the wax pcs color on paper with them and then water colors over to see how the wax (coat of penguin )repels the water and cold. . You could do the same with color crayons . What they eat . how tall they can . They get to around 4 feet which is around the size of some preschool so we measured our self to see how tall penguins are to us .

Then we made out books so the children can go home and share with their parents about penguin . The books where taken from kidsoup.com

Edit sorry for the miss spelling . i put this up as these are happen usually so multitasking some time does not always go as plan .

Mama Do you Love Me .

As we are study cold and moving into the Arctic I thought I'd start with Mama Do You Love Me . Talk a little about the Inuits:

Inuits is a group of cultural inhabiting the Arctic regions. So we of course talked about how they dressed and what animals live there . As next week we will be doing Arctic animal. Of course these should of been a picture of them self but they did there own expression . Now it would be cute i could of added there face to the picture after they color but i did not today .. Many ideas .

The coloring page was taken from kidssoup .com