 Graphing
the Green
What color comes to mind when you think of St.
Patrick's Day? Green of course! So
celebrate the holiday and the color by completing
the activity below.
YOU WILL NEED
-Large sheet of bulleting board paper -A 1/2
sheet of shamrock stickers for each student
PREPARE THE LARGE
SHEET OF B-BOARD: -draw a line down the middle
-make nine columns going across -on the left side
of the line write the following questions in each
box.
1. I am
wearing green.
2. The house I live in is green.
3. My favorite color is green.
4. I like green beans.
5. My family has a green car.
6. I have a green pencil.
7. My winter coat is green.
8. I like green Jell-O.
9. I have used a green crayon.
10. I know a word that rimes with green.
HOW IT WORKS:
1.) Have a volunteer read #1.
2.) Invite students up to place a sticker
in the column next to #1 if it applies.
3.) Repeat 1-2 for all the questions.
4.) Have students use the graph to answer
questions during a class discussion
A Leprechaun
Booklet
Pass out an oval shaped piece of paper to
each student.Tell the class to draw and color a
leprchaun on the paper. The leprechan can
be any size and doing anything the student
wishes. Brainstorm ideas with the class to
encourage creativity. The teacher may wish
to make her picture in advance. I made one
of a leprachaun crawling over a rainbow to get to
a pot of gold waiting at the other end.
Then have each student write a story or paragraph
about the leprechaun he or she has drawn,
complete with an appropriate title.
Collect the pictures and glue them into a
booklet. Have the students illustrate from
and back covers for the book. The photo
copy a second booklet of stories and
pictures. Suggest that the students try to
match the story with the picture.
Pots of Gold
Paint 11 small paper cups black to represent pots
of gold. Spray paint 55 or more beans
gold. Make 11 shamrocks and label each with
a numeral from 0-10. Attach a labeled
shamrock to each pot. To do this
activity, the student places the correct number
of gold pieces into each pot. Also, you
may wish to have the students place the shamrocks
in numerical order. Another idea is to
label some more shamrocks with addition,
subtraction, or multiplication questions.
Then attach these shamrocks to the pots.
Have the children use the gold pieces as counters
and put gold pieces equivalent to the sum and
differences in appropriate pots.
Have the class go
on a clover hunt. Supply a zip lock bag and
tell them to collect lots of clovers.
Award a student who finds a four leaf
clover. Have the students bring their
clovers back to the classroom. Since you
have clovers of many sizes - you can make a
sequencing game. Do this by pressing each
one between wax paper sheets using a warm
iron. Cut the center from an index card to
make a frame for each of the clovers. Tape
a pressed clover to each frame. Store the
clover cards in reusable bags decorated with a
clover sticker. To use the cards have the
students remove them from the bag and put them in
order by size.
Creative Writing
on shamrock shaped paper: What would you do if
you found a pot of gold, What is really at the
end of the rainbow, A leprechaun came to room 6,
what would you do with a 100 LB potato.
Make a class graph
of whether or not your students believe in
leprechauns.
Go on a tour of
your school, write down everything green you see.
You can make a class book A Wee Bit O'Green at
the _______ School.
Place some lucky
charms in a bag for each student. You can graph
the different marshmallows. You can also do story
problems like add your horshoe marshmallows to
your rainbow. Etc.
Students create
their own leprechaun stories from ideas written
on the shamrocks. Students brainstorm their own
ideas to write on the shamrocks: (glue glitter
around the edge of each shamrock)
A leprechaun who
lost his magic powers
I woke up one
morning and the world was green
A wizard cast a
spell on all the leprechauns
I finally caught a
leprechaun
The day I found, not
a pot of gold, but a pot of leprechaun dust!
Final drafts are
written on white paper and leprechaun pattern is
placed over, near or behind the story so it looks
as if the leprechaun is holding the story! (or
pattern can be traced over the story for a nice
effect)
Shamrock Math
Duplicate about 20 shamrocks and write a
different multiplication fact (or whatever
concept you want to stress) on each one number
each shamrock sequentially(1-20)
Make a trail of
shamrocks that lead to the end of the rainbow.
(Looks great on a wall leading to a bulletin
board)
Students number
their papers from 1-20 and copy the fact from
each shamrock; each fact is then answered.
When the student
arrives at the end of the rainbow, an answer key
is used to check all work;
Then the student
takes a piece of "gold" (gold-wrapped
candy)
SHAMROCK
COUNTING BOOKS
Use white or green paper to make a blank book for
each student. Number the pages in each book from
1 to 5. Then hand out the books and invite the
students to rubber-stamp matching numbers of
green shamrock prints on their book pages. Or
give them shamrock stickers to attach to their
pages,.
Gold and Silver
Sorting
Give each of student a piece of paper folded in
half and set of torn scraps of gold and silver
wrapping paper. Invite students to sort the
pieces by gluing the gold scraps on one half of
their papers and the silver scraps on the other
half.
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