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Penguin Addition

Penguins are in my top ten list of favorite animals!  They are just too cute.

I wanted to create a math and art activity along the theme of penguins.  Chalk Talk, had a great post of compiled penguin ideas.  In her file, I saw a photo of a penguin eating different colored fish.  Along with it was an addition sentence.  Since we were working on fact families, I decided to take that idea and spin it into my own fact family penguins. I also included an easy version, which works well for Kindergarten. You can click here to check out April of Chalk Talk’s original post and you can click the pictures below to download the file for free from TpT.

The kids had a great time making it and it took them a long time to rip up all the blue paper!

Click Here to Download this Activity for Free!

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  1. Veronica Chase

    February 10, 2011 at 6:05 am

    This is so cute! I'm going to link to it on my blog!

    substitutesftw.blogspot.com

  2. Ginger Snaps

    December 21, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    Adorable! I just did something similar with Christmas tree lights and division!

    gingersnapstreatsforteachers.blogspot.com

  3. Stacie

    December 21, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    This is really cute!

  4. Anonymous

    December 22, 2011 at 2:01 am

    Thank you for sharing this adorable penguin activity!!!

  5. KatieRzLOVESk

    December 22, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    Love it for January! thanks! 🙂

  6. Anonymous

    December 29, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    I love mixing art with math! Thanks so much for the freebie! ~Steph

  7. emkayeye

    January 10, 2012 at 1:42 am

    super cute! I was looking for something to do for my outside board. This is perfect. Thanks!

  8. kelly

    January 12, 2012 at 4:47 am

    Love this idea! Thanks for sharing!

  9. Ellen

    January 4, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    Thanks for always sharing your fabulous ideas! I have featured this on my blog about my fave penguin-themed math ideas for this winter!

    Ellen
    Great {First Grade} Expectations

  10. Angela Rodriguez

    February 2, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    We did this in our kindergarten class and my kids loved it. Thank you for sharing!

    Angela

    The Bilingual Teacher

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