Polar Bear Learning Activites

After that post about penguin learning activities, I couldn’t resist sharing some polar bear activities, too. You can do a whole week of learning about cold-weather animals, or just throw in some polar bear activities to add to your winter fun.

Learn about the life cycle of a polar bear and do some polar bear learning and writing using the printables from Homeschool of 1.

Get some cutting practice with a polar bear twist from Simple Everyday Mom. She has other great worksheets for practicing the letter P and labeling a polar bear, too.

Sort nouns and verbs with a polar bear twist with these printable activities for 3 Dinosaurs. They’re related to the Magic Tree House book about polar bears, which might be fun to read (or the nonfiction companion book) while you’re doing these activities. They also have printable polar bear ten frames you can use to practice counting.

Homeschool Share has a printable polar bear math mat where kids roll a die and add snow to the polar bear’s snow globe. This is an easy project for one to one correspondence.

Unscramble words related to polar bears and the Arctic with this printable from Miniature Masterminds. Or solve polar bear mazes with help from Planes and Balloons. Grab a super cute polar bear memory game from Simple Everyday Mom.

Get kids moving and playing with sound with the polar bear sound game from Growing Book By Book. You can play this with rhyming words, saying how many syllables are in a word or words in a sentence, or other ways she talks about in the post.

Add a little STEM to your exploration of polar bears by learning how blubber keeps polar bears warm (this activity from I Can Teach My Child looks super fun) and learn about polar bear dens and designing your own with this activity from Primary Theme Park.

Polar Bear Board Game

Polar Bear Card Game

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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.

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