From a Seed to a Flower

SCIENCE
plant life cycle


ART PROJECT
They cut their own flowers and some cut their own leaves. This was a great project to review the plant life cycle.

 

 

How cute it my student? He drew a sun and some rain :)

 

 

VIDEO

All About Plants

MATH
Play-dough Carrot counting mat
http://www.mpmschoolsupplies.com

Informational Videos

Science
Exploring SEEDS

Learning Centers

Has amazing worksheet and packets for downloading.

http://www.homeschoolcreations.net

 Both of these came from http://www.homeschoolcreations.net

LANGUAGE ARTS 

 I found this on Michelle Griffo TPT store FREE download

Vocabulary/ Flash cards
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seed-Plant-Matching-Cards-667527


 SCIENCE
 Life Cycle

 

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.

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!

How tall is the Leprechaun?

MATH

Measuring preschool activity

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

Rainbows- Fruit Loops Patterns

I originally wanted them to make necklaces with the patterns they each made, but due to time and this years group of students, I skipped it. I found the idea on Mamas like me

MATH

Make and finish patterns

After they got their pattern checked and approved, they got to eat their cereal! 

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

Character Building: Honesty

Honesty Activity

I passed out skittles to all my kids and told them that they each get ONLY ONE skittle. I purposely put 2 skittles in a few hands. After everyone received one, I asked "did everyone get ONE skittle" they all replied YES! I repeated myself and said " I just want to make sure everyone ONLY got ONE skittle" I had one child say "Mrs. Nathalie, you accidently gave me TWO" and the other two children closed their hands quickly and thought I wouldn't notice.

Of course, I asked for all of them to show me their skittle and let me check , one more time. The two other children were a little embarrassed that they didn't "tell the truth". We had a long discussion about the importance of being honest.

Before the end of class I had another TEST. I had them all turn around and close their eyes. I said "whoever I tap on the shoulder get the WHOLE bag of SKITTLES". I had them all turn around and stand up if they were the "chosen one".

All my kids were honest and a little sad that it wasn't them. I gave them all another skittle for being HONEST!

The Rainbow Song- The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That

Colors of the Rainbow

ROY G BIV

Language Arts
Rainbow poem

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

Over The Big Moon

Mamas Monkeys

U Create With Kids

Kindergarten Smarts.

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