Tacky the penguin

Understanding characters is an essential part of reading comprehension, so today I’m going to share part one in a two part post on how to teach character traits. Watch the Facebook live video about this topic here. (Click here to skip to part two.) Like many lessons, I start with a hook. I ask my students to partner up…

Do your students just love Tacky, the Penguin?! If I can find one reason to be bummed that I’m on maternity leave, it’s that I don’t get to teach TACKY! My students l-o-v-e reading about that silly Tacky and I love teaching all about him! Last year I created my Mo Willems author study and […]

It's a follow-up writing activity to Tacky the Penguin that includes designing a new shirt for the fashionable fowl!

I love the month of February! There are so many fun things to teach. Plus, it's my birthday month! We took a break from all our non-fiction ...

We've been have a wacky, very tacky, time of it with Tacky the Penguin this past week! You may remember our fun from last year...Well, we're back at it again not just because it's such an awesomely funny story, but because each year, grades 2+ in our district have several genre units we are required to teach. Our second grade units are about teaching tolerance through fantasy stories and then a nonfiction unit follows on that same topic too. In the fall, we use Stellaluna and then do a…

We dove into character traits this week and what better guy to do that with than Tacky?!?! My kids love this odd little penguin! After reading the book, I recorded what my little ones had to say: Then we used Lindsey (The Teacher Wife)‘s character page from her Reading Comprehension Pack. I have both her […]

Tacky The Penguin Craft | Fun winter book companion activity. Use free printable template to make this art project w/preschoolers, kindergarten & elementary.

Who doesn't love Tacky the Penguin? Tacky is not your average penguin. He’s an individual who marches to the beat of his own drum. The other penguins barely tolerate Tacky’s unusual penguin habits. However, when these habits end up throwing some profit-seeking penguin hunters off track, the others learn to appreciate Tacky’s differences.

Learning About Penguins in Kindergarten! Anchor charts, book recommendations, and science lesson too!

I love Tacky the Penguin!! His books are a favorite at our house. Do you remember our Tacky the Penguin Craft from last year? I have had a lot of people contact me wanting a pattern recently