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 To introduce our Iditarod unit, I showed this Arctic Animals Powerpoint Lesson from Creative Lesson Cafe. Confession: I hate Powerpoint presentations. BUT, I loved this one! The kids were so ENGAGED! The level of information and interesting facts about animals, paired with the high quality photos were just what they needed! Instead of me reading each slide about each animal, I had volunteers come up and read. We just loved this activity so much! There were lots of neat facts I didn't know either...and I won't spoil them for you so you'll have to check it out yourself! The kids were talking about it for the rest of the day...it was so cute!

Next, I partnered kids up to read these Arctic Animal Poems. Again, a huge hit! They took turns reading sentences and switching off, practicing reading with expression and perfecting their phrasing. After choosing a poem to perfect, they each got to recite to me. CUTEST thing EVER. I had them keep this in their reading folder and we'll be using it throughout our Iditarod unit!

So there you have it! 2 awesome Arctic animal activities that you can incorporate into your literacy or social studies lessons with ease! 

 

Creative Lesson Cafe is just about the cutest blog around, so please make sure you stop by and give Jeannine some love. She tried out my Iditarod Dog Craftivity and Adopt-a-Dog Journal...

but you can go check out her post about that yourself by clicking here!