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Mr. Popper's Penguins Book Study

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Recommended for: Primary Years (K-3rd)

Create lasting connections through this rich story while you study themes such as science, nature, geography, history, and language arts. This four-week book study is a digital download you can use in your homeschool or as book study with a group. Each download includes:

  • Mr. Popper's Penguins Book Study with weekly lesson plans, recipes, and more
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins Book Report Template
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins Extension Book List
  • Multimedia Reference Materials links
  • Book Club Meet-up Guide

Overview of Mr. Popper's Penguins

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Florence and Richard Atwater is a heartfelt story about an eccentric house painter who resides in the small town of Stillwater with his family. As he goes through his daily life, he dreams of venturing out of the small town to visit the North and South Poles.

 Fascinated by these faraway places, he studies maps and atlases dreaming about visiting the continents, while his practical wife handles the duties of daily life. When Mr. Popper sends a letter to an Antarctic explorer, he is surprised with an unexpected gift, a penguin named Captain Cook. To repair the penguin’s loneliness, Mr. Popper acquires Greta, another penguin, and together they generate a family of penguins.

The story follows Mr. Popper and his brood of penguins as they adapt their home to accommodate the needs of the animals, train them to perform and more. As the penguins charm all who see them, Mr. Popper is faced with hard decisions about what is best for the animals, and what environment they will ultimately thrive in. This tale explores themes like the pursuit of dreams, the importance of family, adapting to unexpected change, responsibility for one’s actions, and the value of compromise.

Themes covered in this study

  • Polar regions
  • Polar exploration and explorers
  • Penguin behavior
  • Penguin diets
  • Penguin nests
  • Captain Cook
  • Penguin parenting roles
  • Penguin babies
  • Animal Circus acts
  • Train travel
  • Seals
  • Polar bears
Digital Download Details

This file is a digital download and will be delivered electronically to the email address you use to check out. For best results, we recommend you print using Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free application.

Refund Policy

Due to the nature of digital downloads, we cannot offer refunds on any digital products. All digital download sales are final.

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See a Sample Lesson Plan

Each book contains four weekly lesson plans to be used as a menu so parents can choose which activities to do each day.

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Rocio Sirbike
Book Studies for Littles ❤️

These studies are so much fun! As my daughters became readers and I started more read alouds, I wasn’t sure what type of questions or fun activities to incorporate and now problem solved. Thank you!!

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Casey Gaines
Book Study

These book studies are phenomenal! I love how much detail there is and the extra activities and resources are so helpful. My kids are always excited when we start and it's been a joy watching them fall in love with reading.

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Brianna Wilkerson
Fun, comprehensive and simple!

Just started Kindergarten with my 5 year old and preschool with my 3 year old and we love doing family book clubs and reading chapter books together with dad in the evenings! I wanted to choose books that we all would enjoy and have follow up activities if they wanted to dive deeper! Treehouse book studies have been the solution! Some weeks we just read the book, some weeks we go deeper with the recommended videos, activities and books. As my kids get older we will add more of the bonus activities in (and reread the books!), but right now, we are having fun reading longer books as a family and loving literature together! Can’t recommend these studies enough.

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Lindsay
Intermediate collection one

This is the first year using this and I’m so excited to start. A Homeschool mom shared it with me and she just loves it.

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Stephanie Sage
Timeless Classics

My family has been using Treehouse Schoolhouse book studies for a year now and will continue using them. As a parent, I look for these timeless classics. They are a perfect addition to our homeschool book club! Caddie Woodlawn is heartwarming tale very similar to the Little House series.