You guys are so inspiring! I decided to take on my first themed week! I am really excited! I found some great activities and games that I can’t wait to try! I went to the largest library in town, and I am now armed with ten penguin books!
I decided to share my resources and the books that I choose, so here goes!
Favorite Internet Resources:
http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/penguinsPolarBears.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/penguins/activities.htm
Favorite Penguin Game I found:
http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/PenguinSightWordFeed.htm
I love this idea because it can be turned into a subtraction game, a upper/lower case letter matching game! This will be a game that we hopefully won’t get bored with. There are even blank fish cards that I am going to turn into Spanish sight cards.
Book List:
“If You were a Penguin”
“Penguins and Their Chicks”
“Penguins”
“Where is Home, Little Pip?”
“Mr Popper’s Penguins”
“The Penguin Problem”
“Tony Baloney”
“Flip and Flop”
“The Penguin Problem”
Spanish Penguin Books
“El Pinguino Pedro y Pat”
“El Pinguino Pedro Aprendiz de Marinero”
Wish me luck and lots of energy! 
Penguins, I have never done a week on penguins. My kids love the themed weeks, I usually do them in line with what the oldest is doing at school or to link to a special outing I have planned.
Thomas the tank engine was their favorite so far…with a trip to the Thomas railway somehow during that week I managed to slip in electrical circuitry, steam trains, coal and renewable resources, track design, the job of the train driver ( I always try to add a little about a career option to get them thinking about it early :)) and fat controller plus and endless stream of Thomas and other train books ( I really don’t enjoy those new thomas books, just no fun to read out loud:( )
I have a feeling my son would love a week on penguins. I can see a trip to sea world, Mr poppa penguins for bedtime reading, some great black and white crafts, puppets, definitely counting, lots of encycropedic knowledge, tap dancing lol the frozen planet movie, science experiments with ice, oh and it’s really easy to make a penguin costume out of a black garbage bag and a bit of white paper!
Thanks for the idea we need a new theme and they just werent giving me one.
Cokers4Life-
If you are doing penguins, check out these amazing USborne books by Anna Milbourne about a little Penguin called Pip. He is a very curious little penguin searching out the answers to some of life’s biggest questions! Our favorite by far is “How Much is A Miilion?”. Pip goes on a search to find out, finding exactly 10 fish to eat, 100 penguins clustered to keep warm, and a thousand(exactly) snowflakes in a storm…but he is very disappointed because he cannot find a million…he goes home to Mama and she shows him the night sky…which is in the form of a glorious fold-out poster with exactly one million stars! Gorgeous, and my hubby even takes it into his Freshman chemistry class because they can’t visualize a million! This has led to fantastic lessons, and there are four in the series. Here is an Amazon listing for them if you are interested…they all have foldout posters at the end!
Specifically you will want “How Big is a Million?”, “How High Is The Sky?”, “How Deep is the Sea?”, and “How Big Was a Dinosaur?”.
Good Luck and maybe they will lead you to intriguing new themes!
That sounds like a lot of fun. I instantly thought of a great picture book called My Penguin Osbert. You can view it here. http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Osbert-Elizabeth-Cody-Kimmel/dp/B005M4WJ1M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331511307&sr=8-1
I loved Mr. Popper’s Penguins. That is a great book. Thanks for the recommendations, Kerileanne99. I will check my library for these right now.
Thank you so much for sharing .