Arctic Animals Thematic Unit

One of my favorite activities to do during January is Arctic Animals. The science content is great, the books are great, and face it, the animals are adorable!  

These are the great books that I use when I teach this fun unit.


To make this unit even better, my favorite video of all time is available on youtube!


Science Fun

And be sure to bring snow into your classroom using this great artificial snow!

All you do is add water to make 10 gallons of ice-cold fun!


Cross-Curricular Thematic Unit

Are you looking for Academically Challenging yet Developmentally Appropriate Thematic Units? You will love this unit as you and your classroom or homeschool students learn about the Polar Animals that live in Arctic Regions such as penguins, polar bears, walrus and more?

Teach the Common Core Standards with confidence by using these strategically linked cross-curricular, thematic activities. You and your students will love them! They are classroom tested with perfect results!


Arctic and Antarctic Activities Math Literacy Science and More
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Arctic and Antarctic Regions Thematic Unit.

You will love this unit as you and your classroom or homeschool students learn about the Polar Animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic Regions such as penguins, polar bears, walrus and more?

Teach the academic Core Standards with confidence by using these strategically linked cross-curricular, thematic activities. You and your students will love them! They are classroom tested with perfect results!

Contents include:

Shared Reading Activities: 

  • The Whale & The Penguin: Group Poetry Activity

  • Arctic Friends: Retell a Story

Literacy Activities

  • Glacier Bay: Phoneme Segmentation

  • Glacier Melt Down: Fluently Naming Alphabet Sounds

  • March of the Penguins: Alphabet Letter Fluency

  • Arctic Hunt: Nonsense Word Fluency

  • Walrus Waddle & Walk: Writing Beginning Sounds

  • Igloo Match: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters

  • Arctic Animal Names: Writing Missing Letters

Math Activities:

  • Polar Bears in the Cave: Counting On

  • Penguin Playground: Adding to and Taking Away

  • Inuit Count: Joining Sets

  • Rescuing Penguins: Identifying Teen Numbers

  • Polar Bear Fishing: Comparing Quantities

  • Comparing Igloos: Comparing Written Numerals

  • Inuit Friends: Composing Numbers

Writing Prompts/Word Wall

  • Arctic Word Wall 

  • The Penguins

  • Polar Animals

  • Label It

Guided Reading Books

  • Arctic Friends

  • Class Made Book

  • Arctic Friends

Art Projects

  • Walrus

  • My Inuit Friend

  • Penguin

Science

  • Ice Race: Exploring Properties of Water

  • North Pole Facts?South Pole Facts

  • Blubber Experiment:How Polar Animals Keep Warm

Songs

  • North and South

  • Arctic Friends

© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk

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Contents include:

Literacy Activities

The Whale & The Penguin: Group Poetry Activity

Arctic Friends: Retell a Story

Glacier Bay: Phoneme Segmentation

Glacier Melt Down: Fluently Naming Alphabet Sounds

March of the Penguins: Alphabet Letter Fluency

Arctic Hunt: Nonsense Word Fluency

Walrus Waddle & Walk: Writing Beginning Sounds

Igloo Match: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters

Arctic Animal Names: Writing Missing Letters

 

Math Activities:

Polar Bears in the Cave: Counting On

Penguin Playground: Adding to and Taking Away

Eskimo Count: Joining Sets

Rescuing Penguins: Identifying Teen Numbers

Polar Bear Fishing: Comparing Quantities

Comparing Igloos: Comparing Written Numerals

Eskimo Friends: Composing Numbers

 

Writing Prompts/Word Wall

Arctic Word Wall 

The Penguins

Polar Animals

Label It

 

Guided Reading Books

Arctic Friends

Class Made Book

Arctic Friends

 

Art Projects

Walrus

My Eskimo

Penguin

 

Science

Ice Race: Exploring Properties of Water

North Pole Facts?South Pole Facts

Blubber Experiment:How Polar Animals Keep Warm

 

Songs

North and South

Arctic Friends


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