Blubber Experiment

We have been learning about polar animals for the past couple of weeks. I found an experiment about blubber in Janice VanCleave's Science around the Year Book.

We put shortening (blubber) in one hand and placed ice on top. Then we put ice in our other hand with no blubber.

Guess which hand was the first to get cold!

The polar bears, penguins, and whales are in good shape.

Isn't God smart???

Snowflakes

Today we read all about snow and made some coffee filter snowflakes. Didnt they turn out pretty!

After dinner, we made snowflake tortillas. You cut the tortilla just like a paper snowflake and then fry it.

After it is done, you spray it with a little butter and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Yum!!!!!!!!

And just for us, this is what it has been doing outside all day long!



What a great way to start our Polar Lands & Animals Unit!!!

Polar Lands & Animals

We are going to be spending the month of January studying Polar Lands & Animals.

The first week we will be learning all about the Arctic Circle, Antarctica, Alaska, & Canada.

Here are a few of the books we will be using:

We will be rowing this title from FIAR.

We will be using The Three Snow Bears unit from HSS

The Polar Animals Lapbook from HSS


The Baby in the Basket Unit from HSS




We will spend one full week learning about Polar Bears.

The following week we will be finding out more about Penguins.

Some other resources we will be using are:

Enchanted Learning
Jan Brett's Website

DLTK's Winter Games and Puzzles

North Pole Igloo Cake

Arctic Info for Kids

Candace's Alaska Unit