Antarctica!

On March 21 Ally’s first grade class had their Antarctica presentation. It was amazing.

All week leading up to Friday posters were appearing with different animals and facts about Antarctica. One morning I made Ally pose under the Emperor Penguin chicks she made.

Finally on Friday it was the day. The students had decided to wear white, black and grey clothes so they looked like penguins while they sang several songs about Antarctica.

After the group presentation they students, all 49 of them broke up into “expert teams” where they showed off their paper mache creations and each student had a fact to tell us about their topic. One the left is Ally (in black) with Jaylinne and Oscar at the Emperor Penguin table. My favorite fact of the day was Oscars “an Emperor Penguin is as tall as me” how cool is that? Each student had written their facts on the back of their name tags. Ally’s is shown. Everyone was so proud of their work.

Maya and Alice with their humpback whale. One the right is the ice fish, the krill and the sea spider.

The great blue whale and the orca (killer) whale at the left. Flying high above in the classroom were the albatross and the skua birds.

Several kinds of seals; elephant, leopard and Weddell seals on the left, and at right, Erik with his team’s ice breaker boat.

One team did ice and the actual continent and at right is the colossal squid.

After I made the rounds of  the room, I cam back to Ally’s table and was so pleased to see Ally chatting with her friends and answering questions. Another parent took the picture at right and used an app to generate the painting-like quality photo. I thought it was pretty neat.

This is my favorite picture from the whole day. Ally with her fellow penguin experts, Jaylinne & Oscar.

Its hard to put into words how wonderful this event was. There were so many parents, and grandparents there to support the students and they had worked so hard and did an amazing job.