Penguin Lesson Plan

My favorite animal:  PENGUINS

        (Have kids think about what their favorite animal might be.  Have them write it down on a slip of paper and drop into a bowl.  Tell them I'll draw a slip from the bowl and next month I'll spend a day talking about the favorite animal that I drew.)

Teaching a week about PENGUINS in the library.

1 -  I'll read a penguin poem.

2 - I'll share my penguin postcard and stuffed animal collections.  I'll show them a bucket of fiction and nonfiction books, and we'll talk about the differences.

3 -  I'll read aloud a nonfiction book about penguins.  Kids will retell facts/interesting stuff they remember from the reading.

4 - Read aloud a fiction book.  

               (When talking about fiction, make sure to discuss ANTHROPOMORPHISM, especially with older grades.)

Here's a great FREE blog that includes lesson ideas, games, and lots of videos:  http://embracinghome.com/penguin-lesson-plans-facts/

childfun.com/themes/animals/penguins

marcias-lesson-links.com/penguincapers.html

YouTubes:

Kids Academy:  Penguins for Kids (4:22)

SciShoKids!:  Meet 3 Peculiar Penguins

All Things Animal:  Animals for Kids:  Penguins (6:39)

Word search puzzle:  Antarctic, bird, southern, hemisphere, swim, waddle, don't fly, eat fish, South Pole, Emperor, Rockhopper, Gentoo, King, Macaroni, African,, Little

What do you call a group of penguins?

    a RAFT of penguins when they're in the water

    a WADDLE of penguins if they're on land

SPS books:

E ABR Pelonius Penguin

E BRE  A Wish for Wings That Work

E JEF Lost and Found

E JEF Up and Down

E LES Tacky the Penguin

E LES Three Cheers for Tacky

E MIN If You Were a Penguin (Pre-K, super simple) facts at end, 2009 PA One Book, Every Young Child

E ODO Pinkie Leaves Home

E PAC (Baskets) The Christmas Penguin

E WOO The Little Penguin

FE MSB #8 PB Penguin Puzzle (Magic Schoolbus)

FE OSB MTH #40 Eve of the Emperor

F ATW Mr. Popper's Penguins

F STR PB Is That an Angry Penguin in Your Gym Bag?

E 080 FDP #3 Penguins

E 590.1 AHS #8 PB Penguin in the Snow

E 598 ALS PB Penguins

E 598 POT HHS Penguin Moves Out of the Antarctic

E 598 WWW Why Why Why Can't Penguins Fly

E 793.KAF Surf's Up

E 598.1 NGS #25 Penguins & Polar Bears

E 598.47 Penguins - 100 Things

598.37 JAC March of the Penguins

598.4 ALL Penguin in the Snow (a 2nd copy?)

599.2 HAN Penguins

Other books that sound good:

I Can Read: Little Penguin's New Friend - 2019, Laura Driscoll

Perfectly Polite Penguins - 2019, Georgiana Deutsch

Penguin's Big Adventure - 2015 Yoon series

Penguins Don't Wear Sweaters! - 2018, Tamura

Spike, The Penguin with Rainbow Hair - 2021, Cullen & Ellis (paper) 

365 Penguins - Fromental & Jolivet ( apparently funny & lots of math) ordered

A Penguin Story - Portis

Penguin in Peril  - Helen Hancocks

The Emperor's Egg - Martin Jenkins

Flight School 0 Lita Judge

Penguins - Gail Gibbons  ordered

Penguin Problems - Jory John & Lane Smith - apparently has incorrect information (GoodReads reviews) that can be tackled in class!