Saturday, December 10, 2016

Penguin Facts for Kids

Are you searching for penguin facts for kids to teach your kindergarten and first grade students all about penguins?  These penguin facts for kids anchor chart and penguins writing center are a fun activity to fulfill your science and writing common core standards.

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These flightless birds, with an adorable waddle, are often a part of elementary science lessons.  You can gather penguin facts for kids with a trip to the zoo, watching a penguin facts for kids video, reading informational text about penguins, and incorporating this no-prep printable Penguin writing center - All About Penguins.  Keep reading to see how you can get a free printable penguin facts for kids anchor chart.
Did you know it takes 35 days for a penguin egg to hatch? And when the egg hatches, the baby penguin is called a chick. 
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Simply leave the printable penguin facts for kids anchor chart at a writing center.  This would be an excellent resource to integrate with Winter Facts for Kids
Level 1 penguin worksheets have the penguin fact printed across the top of the page.  Students cut, build, and glue word tiles to reconstruct the sentence. 
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 When done, they draw an illustration to show their understanding of the penguin fact.
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Level 2 penguin worksheets do not have the sentence printed at the top of the page.  Instead, the students are expected to you semantic and syntactic reading strategies; building a sentence using the mixed up word tiles at the bottom of the page.
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Building Sentences Level 2 All About Penguins
This makes differentiation a breeze!
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Here's what others have said about my Building Sentences resources:

* Used this last week! My students loved it! (Ryan D.)

* Whew! What an AWESOME unit! Great for higher order thinking! (Millie P.)

* This is great for my ESL students! (Robbin M.)

* Kids loved this! (Lisa S.)

* Love this for my classroom! Will be using this again this year! (Nicole L.)

* Amazing resource. (Kelly W.)

* Very helpful teaching students about sentence structure and building complete sentences. (Leslie N)

* Love how this provides different levels! (Buyer)

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