Month: January 2015

For eight months a year, the ice-covered water of Hudson Bay is the polar bear’s home.  How does the polar bear survive there for so long?  This drawing of ta polar bear is eight feet tall.  Some male polar bears can be ten feet tall when they are standing on their back legs.  Division 10 learned that the polar bears have bodies that are suited for living on the ice.  Their unique features, or adaptations, help keep them warm.  Polar bears have two layers of fur . . . an outer layer that sheds snow, ice and water and a layer of dense fur that keeps heat from escaping.  A polar bear also has black skin.  The skin helps to attract heat.  Under the skin is a thick layer of fat called blubber.  

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple – Dr.Seuss

Division 10 has been asking questions about bears.  We really want to know how bears and humans can co-exist together.  We have learned that people come in contact with bears more and more as habitats get smaller and smaller.  What can we do to ensure that everyone is safe?

We learned about how polar bears migrate each autumn to their winter hunting grounds on Hudson Bay.  Every year polar bears gather near a small town in Northern Alberta to wait for the ice to harden.  Ask me about the people of Churchill get along with the polar bears.

We discovered the Northern Lights in the pictures of the Canadian Arctic.  They were our inspiration for a art project.[metaslider id=1883]

Division 10 had a blast the last day of school before the holidays.  We ate pancakes, visited with Santa, decorated our gingerbread men . . .  and we got to do it all in our pajamas.  [metaslider id=1868]