🍀🌈💚 St. Patrick's Day
I hope you enjoy the St. Patrick’s Day Lesson Plan! Here is a quick overview:
“A St. Patrick’s Day Tale” Lift-The-Flap Guided Writing
St. Patrick’s Day Math + Literacy
St. Patrick's Day Dolch Sight Words Game
Leprechaun Color By Sight Word
Spelling Rainbows
Telling Time Curriculum + Posters
3D Rainbow Craft
St. Patrick's Day Fizzy Pots
Discover Ireland Coloring Pages
Find The Gold In The Rainbow Sensory Play
Play Leprechauns On The Run for P.E.
And more...
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Enjoy! Tiff
🍀🌈💚 St. Patrick’s Day
Write Your Adventure - Lift The Flap
Students will help Larry the Leprechaun build his own rainbow with the "A St. Patrick's Day Tale" Book. Practice ordinal number words as the book progresses to build each arch in the rainbow. For each page, students can choose what Larry the Leprechaun uses to build his rainbow. Or be creative and use the options as inspiration and create your own one-of-a-kind St. Patrick's Day story.
Make this into a St. Patrick's Day Literacy Center for continued use. Just color and laminate the story pages, then cut out each of the three story options per page. Use velcro dots for the lift-the-flap options and a dry erase marker to write with.
St. Patrick’s Day Math + Literacy
By: Mrs. W
Loved these St. Patrick’s themed math and literacy activities. This was a great way to review the concepts we’ve previously covered in a fun festive way.
Includes four literacy activities: Shamrock Syllables, Rainbow Rhyming, Lucky Word Families, “If I were a Leprechaun…” Writing Prompt.
Includes four math activities: Counting Gold Coins, Clover Skip Counting, Lucky Coin Tally Marks and St. Patrick’s Day Graphing. Pair your math activities with shamrocks or gold coins as manipulatives for extra fun!
English Language Arts - Sight Words
St. Patrick’s Day Sight Word Game
By: Make Take Teach
Get into the St. Paddy’s Day spirit with these fun and colorful sight word game boards. Includes seven lucky game boards. All you need are player markers and a dice.
Our printable board game set-up is to use one of these magnetic lap boards and these magnetic push pin magnets as player tokens and bar magnets to keep the game board in place.
Leprechaun Color By Sight Word
Practice sight words with this fun St. Patrick’s Day themed coloring activity! For me, educational coloring worksheets are always a win. I am a lucky mama, both my girls love to color.
Spelling Rainbows
Practice spelling three to seven letter words with three fun exercises:
1. Stair Steps - write each word starting with the first letter, one letter in each column.
2. Writing with Midline - write each word using the midline as a guide.
3. Spelling Rainbow - write a word on each color of the rainbow (color version) or write the word in a different color on each line of the rainbow
Reading Lessons
There are only two resources I like to make sure I include on each week’s lesson plan, Prodigies Music (below) and Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons. This book has thousands of 5 star reviews on Amazon for a reason. It’s an effective, no-prep way to teach reading. We are 70 or so lessons in the results have been amazing, my daughter can pretty much read anything. Still working on trying not to skip words and sounding out instead of guessing, but it’s been very effective.
The lessons are short (15-20min), easy to grasp and sequential. The entire lesson is scripted and color coded so it’s fool proof, just read the words in pink. It also is designed for kids that don’t know their alphabet or letter sounds yet, so you can start right away. Their claim is that after completing all 100 lessons your child will be able to read at a 2nd grade level!
Math - Telling Time
What Time Is It?
Explore the concept of time with this no-prep unit. Build a solid foundation for understanding the abstract concept of time with lots of practice.
Start by explaining the different formats of time: digital, analog and written. Then practice filling in a clock, match different time formats, draw in the hour hand and more.
This unit focuses on whole hours and starts with sequential work to help reinforce the concept through repetition.
Units of Time Poster - FREEBIE
I hope you enjoy these two great resources for helping to teach how to tell time. Include the poster in your morning work binder, circle time lesson or post it up in your classroom for easy reference.
Laminate the clock mat or use a sheet protector to use with PlayDoh or dry erase markers. Great for practicing telling time on both analog and digital clocks.
Art and Music
St. Patricks Day Drawing Tutorials
By: Art For Kids Hub
If you don’t already know about Art For Kids Hub, you have to check out their YouTube Channel! It’s awesome and free! It shows you step by step how to draw almost anything. They have hundreds of videos to choose from. And the best part is, that they show the father and his kids drawing at the same time. They focus on having fun and practicing, instead of getting it perfect…which I love!
They have a bunch of great St. Patrick’s themed drawing tutorials. We picked the Pot of Gold and Cute St. Patrick’s Day Kitten and we used oil pastels to color it in to make them really vibrant.
3D Rainbow Craft
We had so much fun making this adorable low-prep rainbow craft. All you do is cut the colored paper into six strips that are slightly shorter than the one before it. Staple one end, then space out the strips and staple the other end. Glue your cotton balls on each end for the clouds and voila! Easy St. Patrick’s Day decoration, just add a Pot of Gold!
Supplies: colored paper, scissors, stapler, glue and cotton balls.
Fruit Loop Rainbow Necklaces
We love making snack necklaces and fruit loops are probably my girl’s favorite. It’s a great way to practice creating patterns while working on fine motor skills. It’s also a practical way to carry around their snack.
Supplies: Fruit Loops cereal, twine.
Prodigies Music
Do…Re…Mi…
We love Prodigies! Prodigies Music is simply an incredible curriculum for teaching music. Ages 2-5 is the critical time to develop a life-long sense of pitch. Their curriculum is designed to develop a sense of pitch with easy to use desk bells that don’t require any tuning. They also teach piano, recorder and ukulele. Their subscription includes everything you can think of 450+ videos, worksheets, free bell mats, sheet music all color coded so it’s super easy to learn. If you don’t have an instrument they have a bunch of rhythm focused content that doesn’t require an instrument. They even have a free bell app that I use with my toddler when my oldest is practicing.
They have a free trial and discounts for annual memberships! Great deal! You can even check out some of their videos for free on YouTube.
Science
Fizzy Pots Leprechaun Science
By: Little Bins For Little Hands
Can you find the gold? My girls love baking soda and vinegar reactions, it literally never gets old. It’s so fun watching their excitement, even if they know what is going to happen.
Just add baking soda to a bunch of mini cauldrons, then add food coloring. We also added some gold coins, so that when the bubbles subsided they found the gold.
Supplies: mini cauldrons, beakers, baking soda, white vinegar, food coloring, gold coins.
Social Studies - Ireland
Discover Ireland - Coloring Pages
By: Kindergarten Worksheets and Games
Learn all about the land of leprechauns, shamrocks and castles with these fun coloring pages. Color a map of Ireland, learn an Irish greeting, color the flag of Ireland and more!
Sensory Play
Find The Gold Rainbow Jello
I have been wanting to make a rainbow Jello sensory bin since forever, I’ve had the Jello boxes sitting in my pantry just waiting for the right idea. And then it hit me…Find The Gold in the Rainbow!
I typically go for low-prep easy clean up sensory play. This is most definitely not that. But…let me tell you it was awesome! My girls had way too much fun searching for the leprechaun’s gold in the Jello!
I used 6oz packets of Jello and made it according to the jigglers instructions so they were more durable. However, I could not find grape Jello anywhere (I went to three stores). So I ended up using gelatin and purple food coloring and it turned out great. If you don’t want your kids eating it, I would go the gelatin route.
I waited till the Jello was starting to set about 1.5 hours and then I added plastic coins and shamrocks. I used a chopstick to push them in so they weren’t all at the top or bottom. I let it set overnight. The next day I cut it into cubes and made our rainbow with jumbo marshmallow clouds. For the final touch I added mini cauldrons to put the gold in.
Filler: 6oz. Jello in six colors, gelatin, food coloring, jumbo marshmallows.
Supplies: gold coins, plastic shamrocks, mini cauldrons.
Physical Education
Leprechauns On The Run
Get the gold and avoid the leprechaun in this fun interactive P.E. Video! This activity has a video game feel with three levels to beat and different obstacles you face in each. See if you can get the gold without getting caught!
Book List
Books We Love!
- St. Patrick’s Day By: Anne Rockwell
- St. Patrick’s Day By: Gail Gibbons
- Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Leprechauns and Irish Folklore
- Magic Tree House Merlin Mission: Leprechaun in Late Winter
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