Tacky the Penguin Craft Boy and Girl Penguin Writing and Retell PreK-2
- 16 pages
- PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
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About this resource
Two penguin crafts and the story of Tacky, in one print-and-go unit: a penguin in a bright flowered Hawaiian-print shirt and bow tie with orange feet, in a boy colorway and a girl colorway. Children color the pieces, cut them out, and glue each one on its faint twin, so the match is by shape and size. Then they put the story in order and write "Tacky is different because ..." Every student page has one short instruction with a picture, so a paraprofessional can run the center from it too.
Made for use with the picture book Tacky the Penguin. The book is not included: read your own copy first. The story is named only as four short events in our own words, all pictures and pages are our own, and this resource is not affiliated with or endorsed by the author, illustrator or publisher of the book.
WHAT'S INSIDE (16 pages)
- Start Here: a five-day plan, prep and an answer key
- 6 vocabulary cards to cut (penguin, shirt, bow tie, feet, igloo, ice) and a trace-and-write page for the same 6 words
- Meet the penguins: a page showing both finished crafts large
- Craft 1, a boy colorway penguin: 9 glue targets the same size as the pieces, then 9 big pieces to color, cut and glue (body, shirt, bow tie, face, beak, 2 flippers, 2 feet) with the finished model beside them
- Craft 2, a girl colorway penguin: the same body, face, beak, flippers and feet with a different flowered shirt and bow tie, 9 pieces and 9 glue targets
- Retell the story in order: 4 glue boxes (First, Next, Then, Last) and 5 pictures to cut, all drawn by us (Tacky arrives and is odd, the other penguins march in a line, Tacky greets loudly, hunters are scared off by the march, plus 1 that is not in the story) and a sentence line for each
- Tacky is different because ...: a draw box, a word bank (shirt, bow tie, loud, odd) and writing lines
- Tacky and me: three sentence starters and a draw box
- Color Tacky and finish two sentences
- A "Who Did What This Week" data page with the answer key
- A family letter to send home
- A credits page (art and font licenses) with 4 more theme units from this store
Cutting Built For Small Hands
Every cutting page has 5 or more big pieces, lined up in a grid edge to edge so each cut is one straight line. 29 pieces to cut in all.
Who This Is For
PreK to 2nd grade classrooms, self-contained special education classrooms and paraprofessionals who want a winter penguin craft with real retelling and writing attached, ready to print.
What This Is, And What It Is Not
A printable PDF (print and cut). It is not Google Slides, Docs or PowerPoint, and it has no fillable fields. It is not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress.
