Penguin Learning Activities for Kids

After talking about Antarctica the other day, it got me thinking about activities involving animals that live in cold climates. So today we’re taking a look at penguin learning activities.

To begin with the basics, Living Life and Learning has printables for the parts of a penguin and the life cycle of a penguin for kids to fill out.

Homeschool Preschool has a cute counting penguins printable book for kids to use to practice counting and writing numbers up to 20, while Life Over C’s has penguin number mats for counting 1-10 and a penguin-themed hundreds chart.

Work simple word problems with penguins and fish while using a printable of a penguin and fish with this activity from Natalie Lynn Kindergarten. The word problems involve subtraction, but you can print the penguin without the words and use them for addition as well.

Or you can feed the penguin with this printable dice rolling game from Hello Wonderful. It’s shown using Goldfish crackers but you can use pompoms or other markers as the “food” if you don’t want to use real food in this activity.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a free 74-page printable full of penguin related activities, including three-part cards, letter tracing, life cycle pages, match activities and tons more.

Speaking of three-part cards, 1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1 has some pretty free printable cards with different species of penguins.

Work on letter recognition and beginning sounds with this penguin alphabet printable set from Stay at Home Educator.

The penguin emotions cards from Natural Beach Living are a great way to work in some social-emotional learning. And don’t forget art! Learn how to draw a penguin with Kids Activities Blog.

Looking for some penguin-themed books? The National Geographic Readers book on penguins is a great factual book about penguins, but there are lots of fun picture books with a penguin theme like If You Were a Penguin and How Do Penguins Play? And of course there’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins, too!

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All About Antarctica for Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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