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Polar Bear Fun
By Krissy

JOB CHART: make little igloos for each job and then give each student an artic animal... polar bear, penguin, walrus, etc. and rotate the animals around the job igloos. The students could even help make the igloos out of
cotton balls or styrofoam pieces.
POSTER: "School is COOL"
BULLETIN BOARD: "nICE work," or "Beary good work!" for fantastic work; for a student of the week board, a large cartoon of a polar bear icefishing, make a real string with a paper fish on the end of his pole, each week he would have a new "Great Catch" Title the board "Fishing for Great Students." Other animals could hold

signs with facts like "Favorite color"

Put large polar bear footprints on the floor leading into your room, or to an area in your room.

Make classroom reward money called "Bear Bucks" or "Polar Points" (I could help with these if you'd like.)

Print out some nice polar bear pictures and write character development message above them "People are easier to bear with if..." Then on each bear put a message "they are cooperative," "they are responsible," etc.

Reading Corner: Put white/blue bean bags, ask a local company to donate two or three large square cubes of styrofoam, put down a blue rug, and presto, you have a "Polar Bear's Den" for reading! You could even line the wall in that corner with white butcher block paper cut in jagged edges to look like ice. OR... if you could get a hold of SEVERAL styrofoam cubes you could build a partially enclosed reading corner with an igloo feel.

Maybe your class could raise money to "adopt" a polar bear at a local zoo. He/she could be the class mascot. It would be a great journal activity for the kids to write about.

White tissue paper crumpled, opened up, and glued to white posterboard looks "icy" OR saran wrap over white posterboard does, too. Add some spray glitter for extra flair.

Hope this helps! Let me know if something doesn't make sense! I sort of rambled.