The preschool class is in the middle of their Antarctic Habitat Study and we have learned a lot! The Antarctic is a very cold habitat and that has lots of water. We learned about various animals that live in this habitat and about whether they live on the land, in the water, or in the air, and some, a combination of them. We stuck our hands in freezing, icy, cold water and discovered it would be very hard to swim in water that cold.
So how do these animals do it? We learned that they have lots of blubber that keeps them warm! So we tried to stick our hands in the water again, this time with them “covered in blubber” and discovered that it was not cold at all this way!
We also learned about the icebergs that are found in the Antarctic. We added a little math study into our lesson and got to play a “Melt the Iceberg” game!
We got to have a little fun with some sensory play and made Antarctic animal tracks in some sparkly playdough snow!
