Our St. Patrick's Day celebrations started off as we decorated the sliding glass door with St. Patrick's Day window clings (purchased at The Dollar Tree). As the students put the clings on the window we chatted about the significance and/or legend of each item. Four year old children are like little sponges, they absorb so much information as long as it is presented in a fun or interesting manner. Putting the window clings on the window was a great hands on activity while we learned the history and legends.
So they asked if they could see if a Leprechaun did any tricky things around my house. It was a great way to burn off some energy. Much to their dismay there were no signs of Leprechaun shenanigans.
We learned a cute little shamrock finger play I used the words and created my own sheer for our class song book. We started to listen to Tim Tebow read "Green Eggs and Ham" but we weren't able to watch the whole thing. Not sure if it was my internet connection or just my laptop struggling.
We decided to do a quick race with our own plate of green eggs (plastic egg) and ham (green bean bag.
The students tried to walk quickly carrying the plate in front of them and also trying to balance it on their head. Balancing green eggs and ham on your head was more difficult than the students thought. One decided that it was easier (and you could walk faster) if you just carried the plate.
We used our pocket die to do some St. Patrick's Day graphing. The first part of the activity was predicting which symbol we might roll the most often. We quickly reviewed the symbols and started rolling. Each student rolled the die and then graphed their results.
After each student had 10 rolls we compared their results.We checked their prediction to see if they were correct. We looked to see if they had rolled the same number of any of the symbols. It was interesting to analyze the data and discover that neither one had rolled a green hat and that both had rolled the same number of harps.
For snack we took canned biscuits and made Shamrock biscuits. We smashed (flattened) the biscuit...
Then we used heart shaped cookie cutters to make the leaves. We made three leaves for each Shamrock. We then gathered up the left over dough and rolled it in to a stem.
Next we rolled each piece of the shamrock in green sugar and carefully placed them on the cookie sheet.
This is our finished product. We used all the dough and some of the green sugar was stuck on our fingers and it got mixed up in the shamrocks. So they were green through and through. We drizzled some honey on top and they made a wonderful snack. We added orange carrot sticks, white cheese stick, and apple juice to complete the snack.
After snack we played Go for the Gold Race. The object of the game is to add the dots on both dice and come up with the sum and then mark that number off your column. Both students are rolling and adding at the same time, they can only mark off the sum once. The winner is the one who marks off all the numbers in their column first. There were some tense moments as they both were counting out loud and mixing up the other student. We solved it by counting using a whisper voice.
The students continued having fun playing a quick game of Green eggs and Ham Tic-Tac-Toe Game. They understand the basic rules of the game but they lacked the understanding of the strategy behind the game. So I talked them through each move that they might make and let them make their own play.
As we waited for the moms to arrive we wrote some St. Patrick's Day words.
Homework was three worksheets. They were to do two Lucky Charms Activities first an Observation sheet and then a Graphing activity using the marshmallows. Of course the best part was to eat the cereal as they did the worksheets and then eat the marshmallows! The third worksheet was a Sight word coloring sheet.
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