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This week Primary 2 have been learning about the Emperor Penguin and its habitat - The Antarctica.
Penguins are birds but cannot fly! They use their wings to steer when they are swimming or to help them to balance when travelling across the snowy ground.
We know that penguins live in a large group called a colony, in the coldest, windiest place on earth! It is so cold that the daddy penguin has to stand on the ice and keep the baby in his brood pouch for two months. If the egg fell onto the ground it would freeze in two minutes!
The penguins' feathers are windproof and waterproof so they can withstand the extreme weather conditions. They huddle together to keep warm when the blizzards blow across the Antarctica.
Penguins are brilliant swimmers and hunt for krill fish in the water. They slide across the snow on their bellies, or waddle using their sharp toenails to grip onto the ice.
We have been reading and discussing fiction and non-fiction books, looking at web sites and video clips, moving like penguins, writing facts about penguins, creating penguins in the dough, drawing and labelling penguins.
We know lots of important information about this amazing bird.
In this gallery you can also view some children at the writing table. They recalled the story of a tortoise called Shelley, who did not want to hibernate in winter. Shelley wanted to go outside and explore winter!
