Polar Wrap-Up

Today, we made an igloo to finish off our Polar Unit!!  (We actually started it the other day, but someone was a little careless & bumped it with his elbow!! :(  We ran out of sugar cubes, so our igloo didn't get a roof, but no biggie!!  (We used a 1 lb. box of sugar cubes, that I found at Wal-Mart for about $1.50.)  We stopped 1/2 way while building, so that the bottom layers could harden - a good idea!!  This isn't the prettiest igloo, but it was fun to do together & he knew what it was. . . . so that's what matters!!  ;)  If you google "sugar cube igloo", you can see some cute ones!!!

Igloo "mortar" recipe:
* 3 c. powdered sugar
* 2 egg whites

Mix well.  If stopping 1/2 way during project, make sure to store in an air-tight container!

Hunter helped me make the "mortar" for the igloo!!











What a cheesy smile!!!  :)













We simply added pictures of polar animals around the igloo - would have been super cute with plastic animals, but didn't have any!!  :(

** If by chance, you're wondering why our "themes" are kind of random - - it's because I let Hunter pick them & if he doesn't know, then I just pick something fun!!!  ;)  We try to tie themes together throughout our randomness, but sometimes it just doesn't work!!  :)

Polar Graphing

Continuing along with our graphing, we talked about Arctic/Polar animals today & did some Polar graphing!!  I found a fun Polar Roll & Graph activity over HERE so we printed it out & put it to work!  :)  (I printed it in black & white & since the pictures were so light, some parts didn't print and I had to draw them in!)  :(  We were only going to graph 10 rolls, but being that Hunter loved this, we went to 20!!   

We also looked at some Arctic animals online - some of his favorites were: Arctic hare, Arctic fox & the polar bear!  Next week, we plan to make an igloo!!! :)