All about penguins!

We studied penguins in our unit on animals. Welearned about them through nonfiction informational texts and movies.We added newly learned facts to an anchor chart. Within one of thebooks we read, we saw a chart that showed different types of penguinsand how they differ in height. Your students came up with the idea ofmaking a life-size version of this chart. We got straight to workpairing up, picking different penguins to represent, finding objects onthe room to use to measure (in inches, we used 1 inch long squaretiles), then measured out and drew our penguins. Of course we had todraw them from shortest to tallest. Ask your student which penguin theymeasured and drew! Or better yet, come and take a look at our wonderfulpenguin chart hanging in our hallway :)