Polar Bear Power Point

I love teaching about polar bears and other polar animals. Recently I had a customer purchase a Penguin PowerPoint that I have in my TPT Store. She left a message saying that she liked it and wished that I had a Polar Bear PowerPoint as well. Her message prompted me to send her a reply as well as to write this blog. 

I haven’t created a Polar Bear PowerPoint, because I use one that I got several years ago from Polar Bears International. It is a great PowerPoint and is done so well that I didn't feel I could create anything better. It is still available. If you are teaching polar bears to primary students I highly recommend it. The Polar Bear International website is a good website and has many other resources as well.

There are a lot of resources to check out on the Polar Bear International website, but the PowerPoint that I like is under the (K-4) All About the Bears. It is a free downloadable PowerPoint file. Here is the link.

https://polarbearsinternational.org/education-center/presentations-materials/

Polar Bears International sometimes changes there website, but hopefully, you will be able to find this resource. 

I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have.

Here are a couple of other resources that you may be interested in.

STEM Activity - Build a Polar Bear

Polar Bear Facts Game

Polar Themed Activities

You might also be interested in the penguin PowerPoint that I mentioned earlier. 

Penguin PowerPoint

Holiday Gift Ideas for Parent Helpers and Co-Workers

Christmas is the time of the year for giving and I love doing it, but it can get costly. I usually start off with wanting to get something for all of my parent helpers. Then of course I want something for all of my 1^st grade team. I can’t forget the office staff or our two wonderful custodians. And then there is the something special I need for my aide. Wow! That is a lot of people, but they all matter to me, so I want to give them a little something. Well, I did. Maybe you don’t want to go to quite the extreme that I did, but coming up with inexpensive ideas can still be a little difficult, so I thought I would share some of my favorites.

My usual favorite is what I call the cozy bundle. I used to have to catch the Black Friday sales in order to get a good deal on the throws, but now I can find them at Walmart for as low as $2.50. I take these little blanket throws and put them in a gift bag along with a word search book and a small bag of candy, which I usually get from the Dollar Store. I can do this gift for under $5.00. These cozy bundle gift bags also work as a great "get better" and "thinking of you" bags. 

This year I went a different route. I went with scarf and glove sets. It was actually pretty fun shopping for all of the different scarves. The prices of the scarves varied, but were as low as $3.00, again at Walmart. The gloves came in a set of two for $1.50, which I split up. While I went above $5.00 for most, it is a gift idea that could easily be purchased for less. Oh, and I purchased the gift boxes at the 99 Cent Store for a set of 3. I've already given out these sets to the staff and they really seemed to love them.

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