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Monday, March 17, 2014

Happy St. Patty's- Preschool Scavenger Hunt

The SCAVENGER HUNT Preschool Crew

CLUES

I found these super cute rainbow colored shamrocks for our scavenger hunt this year on The Crafting Chicks

I ended up using a different set of clues for my preschoolers. These clues can be found at: https://www.lakeshorelearning.com

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Lesson for preschooler- Who is St. Patrick?

The story of St. Patrick for kids

FUN FACTS ABOUT ST. PATRICK'S DAY
I read this short and simple booklet to my kids. Clever Classroom has this download available on TPT

St. Patrick's Day Movement Activities
Irish Jig

Play Irish music and teach children how to do an Irish Jig.

Irish Dancing Performance

GAME-Find the Coin
Select a child to be a leprechaun. Then have all the players sit in a circle with the leprechaun standing in the middle with his eyes covered. Give one child a coin, making sure the leprechaun is not looking. Play music and have the children pass the coin around until the music stops. The leprechaun opens his eyes and tries to guess who has the coin.

I found these super cute ideas on childcarelounge.com, to see the full list of fun songs, games and activities click on the link.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Happy St. Patrick's Day: Taste the Rainbow

EASY DIY Rainbow Cupcakes

Ingredients: White cake mix, primary color food coloring, bowls or cups, and spoons. If you forgot how to MIX COLORS click on my link.

Pour in whatever order you'd like. On this batch I started with red and worked my way to purple.

Next time I am going to start with purple and work my way up. Purple-Blue-Green-Yellow-Orange-Red. So the red ends up on top

Yummy!

Friday, March 14, 2014

How tall is the Leprechaun?

MATH

Measuring preschool activity

I found this amazing worksheet on Mrs Reynolds First Grade Adventures. Check out her blog!

Preschool kindergarten St. Patrick's math activity

Thursday, March 13, 2014

ART- ROY G BIV: Rainbow hair

Hello my name is ROY G BIV

WAIT FOR IT, or skip the intro. It's an animated video/song and not a live.

ART

I found this super cute idea on Read-write-sing.blogspot.com

That morning for sign-in I had them cut out ta circle and write their name. For a later fine-motor activity I had them cut their own rainbow hair strips.

St. Patrick's Day: Rainbows

Language Arts/Science & Art

3 in one activity:ROY G BIV rainbow worksheet

The children reviewed the primary colors and how to mix them. To view my lesson and fun mixing color song, click on the link: MIXING COLORS

MATH

SKITTLE FUN

Geocities.com has a really cute rainbow skittle graph worksheet. I ended up just using a basic bar graph.

Skittle sort, graph, and count

Sunday, March 9, 2014

St. Patrick's Day Freebies

Happy St. Patrick's Day

There are so many people blogging and sharing their wonderful resources. Click on the following links to download

check out this talented bloggers

Home School Creations

Mrs. W's Classroom

The Home School Classroom has TONS of great FREE St. Patty ideas

Sunday, February 23, 2014

CUTE RAINBOW CAKE

Last Years St. Patty's Week

Snack

Here's the video I used to make this rainbow cake. Honestly it was super simple, and I am not a baker!

Science

Water cycle

Yes, even preschoolers can learn about evaporation, condensation and precipitation

Art/Writing

if i had a pot of gold I would buy...

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Craft & Writing Activity: Rainbow Pot of Gold

ART/LANGUAGE ARTS

My lucky pot of gold

The kids cut their own coins and their own rainbow strips.

They practiced using the tape dispenser and taped their rainbow onto their pot.

They glued their lucky coins

and wrote numbers 1-5. For my more advance group, I had them write numbers 1-10.

WRITING

If I found a pot of gold I would...

I have a few different levels in my class. I had one group respond to the prompt with little help, sounding out words, the other group trace their response ( I used a highlighter) and the last group only trace a small portion and I wrote their reply for them.