Today was my third day working with the boys on our polar bear project. We were working on our polar bear as well as creating friendship bears.
We had a bit of news today because Gulliver the travel ted came to visit and he is going to stay for a week with the boys in school.
I also brought the parcel in from WWF regarding our polar bear adoption. Besides a little polar plush bear it contains information and a certificate & letter for the boys and it also has information about the polar bear they adopted.
It was a coincident that I read an article in the National Geographic Magazine-April issue-this weekend about the Svalbard ecosystem on Svalbard Island in Norway. The boys have adopted one of five polar bears on Svalbard Island and did a vital part towards conservation. Well done boys!!!
Today we sewed little friendship bears. The boys had to fill them with stuffing material and embroidered the eyes and nose. They also sewed their bears up. We encouraged the boys to think about a county that their bear should represent. Because countries have to agree to come together in friendship to look after the worlds heritage & environment .
One of the boys made a pirate bear because he had heard in the news about the Somali pirates… They are going to make flags for the bears and we are hoping to join all bears together holding hands in a circle representing different countries of the world.
The boys were also taking turn on working on our polar bear. They were stuffing the head and legs. We are going to put him together next week. His nose needs to be embroidered and all the joints have to go in to make him movable. Next week we are hoping to work on an ice flow for him to sit on.
Here some images of our work today.
Friendship Bears made of material the boys brought in.
Four legs of our polar bear.
Stuffing our friendship bears.
The boys came up with a name for our polar bear today. He is going to be called Blizzard.
