Lesson video

Hello, everyone and welcome back to another lesson with me, Miss Sidenius.

I hope you're excited today to learn a lot about polar animals.

So we're going to start today's lesson by learning about lots of different polar animals.

Then we're going to think about some of the colours that you might see around these polar animals in the polar habitat.

And finally, we're going to create a polar painting.

So in this lesson, you're going to need two things.

Some paper and some paint.

If you don't have any paint, you can always use coloured pencils instead.

Pause the video here, get those two things and come back when you're ready.

Great job, everyone.

Star words, star words, star words.

My turn, polar.

Polar.

When we say polar, we mean the areas at the North and the South Pole.

The very top of the Earth and the very, very bottom.

Can you point to where they are on the world map on the screen? That's right.

You've got the red part at the top, that's the North Pole and the red part at the bottom, that's the South Pole.

Here are some pictures of the North and South Pole.

What do you think the weather is like in the North and South Pole? Tell your screen.

From the picture, it looks very cold, doesn't it? There's lots and lots of snow on the mountains, which makes me think it must be really cold in the North and South Pole.

Here you can see some penguins on some ice as well and you can see how cold it is because this huge bit of ice is not melting, it's just staying there.

I don't think it ever gets very warm in the North and South Pole.

And what animals can you see here as well? That's right, penguins again, walking across a really big iceberg, as we call them.

That's when you've got a massive piece of ice in the water.

Do you think that water would be nice and warm to jump into? No! That water will be freezing cold as well.

But if it's so, so cold in the North and South Pole, what animals can live there? Don't they get cold like us? What animal can you see on the screen here? Tell your screen.

That's right, polar bears.

Polar bears roam across the ice and swim in the freezing cold water.

They're very, very good swimmers, even though they're so big.

Their thick layer of fur keeps them warm in the freezing cold and the bears have white fur so that they can camouflage in the snow and sneak up on their prey, the animals that they want to eat.

Like seals in the water.

They hide in the snow and when the seals pop their head out of the water, then they go and attack them.

So polar bears live very well in the polar habitat 'cause they don't find it cold 'cause they have so much warm fur and skin.

And the snow helps them to hide from the animals that they're trying to eat, their prey.

What other animals can you think of that live in the cold polar habitat? Can you tell your screen? Penguins.

And actually, the penguins that you can see on the screen are Emperor Penguins, which are found in very, very cold Antarctica and they're very big and tall.

Some of them are even taller than you.

Penguins huddle together to keep warm in the cold and they are super duper swimmers as well.

Speaking of other animals that swim in the cold seas in the North and South Pole, what can you see on the screen? The animal that you can see jumping out of the water is a whale.

And they are enormous, so they can stay quite warm in the cold waters.

And then the big animal that you can see sitting on the right on the ice is a walrus.

Walruses are very social and they like to live with lots and lots of other walruses but they can be aggressive and dangerous too.

What do you think those long tusks are used for on the walrus? Tell your screen.

Walruses use those tusks to dig into the ice and pull themselves out of the water when they've been swimming but they do also sometimes use them when they're fighting.

Walruses are so big big that their bodies help to keep them warm 'cause they have big layers of fat to keep them warm.

What are these cute little polar animals you can see? They almost look a bit like animals that you mind find in the woods in England or in the UK.

Tell your screen.

So you can see an arctic fox and an arctic rabbit on the screen.

They live in burrows and can tunnel in the snow to shelter from the cold weather.

You can see as well that they've got lots of fluffy fur to keep them warm.

And their fur is white so that they can hide in the snow so that animals that might try to eat them like polar bears won't be able to find them.

So we're now going to have a go at creating a polar painting.

When we're doing our painting, I want you to really think about the colours that you've seen in those pictures of the polar habitat.

There wasn't much colour in those pictures, were there? I saw lots of white ice and blue water and blue reflections in the ice.

I didn't really see any other colours, apart from the black of the penguins.

So when I'm painting, I'm only going to use white and I'm going to do it on a blue piece of paper so that it looks like a real polar habitat.

I'm going to use my fingers to paint so I don't even need any paintbrushes for this picture.

I wonder if you can tell what I am painting with my finger.

I'll give you a clue.

It's a polar animal.

You might have to wait until I've done a little bit more for you to see what it is.

I'll give you a clue.

I'm doing a round face.

And then you might be able to tell in a little while.

So I'm going to use lots and lots of white on my finger and I keep dipping it in some water so that it comes up a bit better.

We're going to have lots and lots of white because this is a very fluffy polar animal.

So have a think.

Is a whale fluffy? No.

So it can't be a whale.

Is a penguin fluffy? Kind of but not really and this animal is completely white.

So I don't think it's a penguin.

What do you think it is? Tell your screen.

Well done, I heard some of you saying a polar bear, I heard some of you saying an arctic fox or an arctic rabbit.

So I've got the outline of my animal.

We'll find out on the next screen what it is.

And I think I'm going to do some snow as well, just to show how cold the weather is in a polar habitat.

So I'm going to do some ears on my animal.

They don't look much like rabbit ears, do they? I don't think it's an arctic rabbit.

And we're going to see lots and lots of snow.

Just like the weather in the polar habitats.

All over the back of my picture until it's completely covered.

And it's really good.

Because we're only using white, we don't have to wash our hands all the time.

We can just dip it straight back into the paint.

Oh, it's snowing very heavily today in my polar habitat.

So I'm going to finish doing the snow.

Then I'm going to leave my paint to dry for about five or 10 minutes and I'm going to come back and do the finishing touches.

So pause the video here, do the outline of your polar animal and come back when you're ready.

Great job, everyone.

Let's do the finishing touches now.

So my paint is dry and I've got a black pen.

I'm going to do the insides of the ears.

One.

Two ears.

And I'm going carefully here so that I don't go outside of the lines.

I'm just going really slowly and I'm making sure I draw the outline first.

There we are adding a bit more to make it neater.

Two little eyes.

And a smile.

Can you tell what it is yet? That's right, it's a little polar bear cub.

So I'm going to do a little nose as well.

And join up the smile with the nose and there you go, I've got my polar animal in my polar habitat.

All finished.

Pause the video here, add the finishing touches to your polar animal and press play when you're ready.

Great job, everyone.

Now, looking at your lovely painting that you finished, I wonder, can you tell me what the weather is like in the Arctic in a polar habitat? What's it like? Tell your screen.

That's right, it's really freezing cold in a polar habitat, isn't it? And it snows a lot and there's lots and lots of ice and cold water.

I'm not sure I want to go there on holiday.

I think I'd be too cold.

Well done, everyone.

I hope you're super duper proud of your lovely polar habitat painting.

Make sure to share it with somebody in your household, your teddy or your toy.

See you next time.

Bye.