Goodness, can it really have been fourteen years since our Penguin Unit? Yes, it can, because Daisy was very small and just barely starting to join us at school. Malachi was a cheery little cherub. And Daisy has wanted to learn again about penguins again ever since!
Little Daisy then
Little Clementine now
We did this interesting activity where we put our hands inside a layer of "blubber" (vegetable shortening in a ziploc bag, with another ziploc bag inside so it doesn't need to touch your skin) and held them in ice water. The other hand went in ice water with no insulating blubber. The difference was quite stunning! You could leave your blubbery hand in forever without even feeling it! The regular-skin hand…only a few seconds before it got unbearably cold. This is how penguins and whales and seals stay so comfortable in the arctic and antarctic waters!
We made these little folded Penguin page-corner bookmarks (specifically here) although not everyone made them into penguins…
Gus made a Caw, of course!
And an orange penguin.
And an even better Caw.
He was very happy with how they turned out!
We also made these little water-bottle penguins which Daisy had such fond memories of making before. Clementine liked it as much now as Daisy did back then!
(Not sure why the regular water bottle was insisted upon in this picture…??)
Daisy found a tiny water bottle to make a baby penguin. So cute!!
A whole penguin family! (and their friend water bottle?? or is he a ghost??)
