This St. Patrick's Day, my class will be up to some shenanigans...
We will be shaking on some "Leprechaun Learning Dust"...
playing some "Shamrock Shake-Up"...
and learning alliteration with likable leprechauns...
and even making 4 leaf clovers to show how lucky we all already are {even without that leprechaun's gold}!
Along with that, we will be designing our very own Leprechaun Traps--my favorite activity of St. Patrick's Day! I will always remember making my own Leprechaun Trap when I was in first grade. I didn't catch the sneaky guy, but it sure was magical when he left behind some green glitter and chocolate gold coins!
What's that you say? You would like to be up to some shenanigans, too? Click HERE to get a packet full o' shenanigans!
P.S. I am always looking for new inspiration! What is your favorite St. Patrick's Day activity or lesson? Please leave me a comment!
The LUCKY 17th person to comment will get Shamrock Shenanigans FREE! Woo HOO!
This is absolutely precious!!!! :) So cute!
ReplyDeleteAlways love reading a good leprechaun book and teaching about rainbows! Wonder what number I am?
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Love your St. Patrick's Day activities! I love to read the book The Night Before St. Patrick's Day by Natasha Wing! I hope I am lucky number 17!!
ReplyDeleteJennifer
jenniferlalsip(at)yahoo(dot)com
The First Grade Dream
I just bought it! I'd love to be the lucky 17th but...
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to using it!
❤Firstgradebloomabilities❤
I love it!
ReplyDeleteOh my word! This is so precious. I love all of your ideas. CUTE, CUTE, CUTE!
ReplyDeleteI don't htink I'll be lucky #17, but I'm going to get myself a copy anyway. Ha!
Lyndsey
A Year of Many Firsts
I would LOVE to be lucky #17!
ReplyDeleteThis looks darling...love the lepruchan dust!
ReplyDeleteHope I'm lucky today!
megandw@yahoo.com
So great! I put leprechaun feet all over my room and on the kids desks as well! They love it! :) This unit looks awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE this!! I love St Patrick's Day, too! I just posted about it =)
ReplyDeleteHave a great Monday!!
Jennifer
First Grade Blue Skies
Cute idea! :-)
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imgoingfirst@gmail.com
super cute! mollilindquist@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteSo cute! Love it!
ReplyDeleteNatalie
Teachery Tidbits
I would be so lucky to get this fun packet!!
ReplyDeleteSuper Cute! Love all your stuff
ReplyDeleteCaroline
Too cute!!
ReplyDeleteI like to graph with Lucky Charms and then eat them of course.
ReplyDeletelove the four leaf clover idea!
ReplyDeleteThis looks great!!
ReplyDeleteKatie
katie.libberton@fsd145.org
What cuteness and fun!
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Love this! The Leprechaun Learning Dust is just toooo cute! :)
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Love this!! The Leprechaun Learning Dust is too cute!!
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Love the focus on how they are already lucky!
ReplyDeleteLaurie
Jubileerae@gmail.com
Love the focus on how they are already lucky!
ReplyDeleteLaurie
Jubileerae@gmail.com
Crossing fingers to be lucky 17! :)
ReplyDeletehannah.buehring@ gmail.com
I wish I were as creative as you.
ReplyDeleteOh, pooh! I know I am not the winner
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How fun! Love all your ideas :)
ReplyDeleteI do a lot of the same activities as you! Throughout the week things begin happening in our classroom (chairs and desks moved, clovers left behind), I read The Night Before St. Patrick's Day, and we set a trap. We write what we're lucky to have, make Wanted posters for those darn leprechauns, and the kiddos write how they think shamrock shakes are made. On St. Patty's day they find a note left behind with gold coins and chocolate. We make shamrock shakes that day too!
ReplyDeleteLaurie
http://firstgradelyonsden.blogspot.com/
The lepruchaun dust is too cute!! Love it!
ReplyDeleteJennifer
jenniferlalsip(at)yahoo(dot)com
The First Grade Dream
kimberlycollatos@comcast.net I hope that I win!
ReplyDeleteLooks like fun! My favorite thing to do for St. Patrick's Day is have the kids make leprechaun hats that magically turn into cute little leprechaun hats the next day. the kids love it! check it out at my blog...
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Love the four leaf clover and reasons you are lucky idea. I am excited to make a leprechaun trap too!
ReplyDeleteJessica
Apples and Papers
Super cute... but I am way past 17!
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manakans@hotmail.com
I love the 4-leaf clover idea! I think it is brilliant and my kiddos and I might be doing that next week! Thank you so much for the ideas. My favorite St. Patrick's day activity is to have the students design leprechaun traps the day before St. Patrick's day, then the morning of the leprechaun (ie me!) trashes the room and leaves the kiddos some "gold" coins. So fun!
ReplyDeleteI am your newest follower and would love to share my ideas with you as well! My bestie and I are also hosting our first giveaway for our march literacy centers pack - you should come check it out!
~ Katie
First Grade ABCs
Mine is our science unit on inventors that I did with my K's last year. The week before St. Pat's, we learned all about inventors and how they come up with inventions and then we invented leprechaun traps! They spent all afternoon creating and then we *almost* caught the naughty little leprechaun who tried to steal our gold. :)
ReplyDeleteYour unit looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteOn St. Patrick's Day, I like to add green food coloring to the toilet water. The kid's reactions are priceless.
One year, as the kids were cleaning up the mess the leprechaun had left, one little girl comes running up to me and yells, "The leprechaun is girl! She left her hair ties on the floor!!"
Apparently, one of my kids (from that year or year's past??) had left their hair ties on the floor and no one had noticed or bothered to pick them up. All of my kids were convinced the leprechaun was a girl. I tried very hard not to laugh. It was really cute.
~Andi
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteSo cute! I come in early and throw chairs and books all over the room to really mess it up. Then I leave little green 'footprints' all over the desks, bookcases with my palm of my hand on the side dipped in paint and a few finger prints next to it. So they see the tracks left behind. We do lots of other fun things too, I will be posting them. :o)
~vicky
Traditions Laughter and Happily Ever After
Way cute!...even though I'm number bajillion! Love your stuff!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all of your hard work love the shamrock shenanigans!
ReplyDeleteLove that "lucky me!". Brilliant! Erin go bragh - which is Gaelic for "Ireland forever!"
ReplyDeleteLove this! I am headed over to check it out now!! Thanks for all of your great resources!!
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darlininfirst.blogspot.com
You might want to join us at http://projectsbyjen.com/Projects/luckycharms12/homepage_LC12.html for out 9th annual St. Patrick's Day project!!
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Sarah, I love your ideas and I am glad I found your blog!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
So much fun! Can't wait to hear about this magical holiday :) He's already crazy over penguins, lol Now I guess I'll be seeing little green men at my house!
ReplyDeleteSO stinkin' cute. Period. I really want this. Exclamation point!
ReplyDeleteLoving these pictures! So cute!! :) I'm your newest follower. I would love for you to come over and visit my blog. :)
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Cute! Cute! Cute! This sounds like a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteI just love creating leprechaun traps. I have my kids write about the trap and plan how it will work. That way I get to see exactly what is behind that interesting design. I love the idea of your leprechaun dust!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Ashley
http://firstgradesmartcookies.blogspot.com
So Cute ideas from all. One thing we like to do is make magic putting with the leprachaun dust(pistatio pudding) All you do is add milk and stir and you turn ordinary white "dust" into a bright green pudding!
ReplyDeleteI am counting down the days to celebrate my favorite holiday with my class. About two weeks before the great green day the boys and girls start looking for misplaced things around the room to blame on the little leprechaun...thank you for the great ideas :)
ReplyDeleteI love your cute ideas...I can't wait to use some of these cute ideas:)
ReplyDeleteCan you explain how they will select pictures for their Lucky Shamrocks? (presorted, choosse at home, ect.) Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy third graders loved making the lucky shamrocks last year. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDelete~Lindsay
Mrs. Miller’s Monkey Business
When I student taught, I bought a pair of cheap white kid shoes and spray painted them green and sprinkled with gold glitter. Ever since, I've continued the tradition of hiding the shoes in my room, leaving a note for my Kinders from a leprechaun informing them that the shoes are somewhere in the room, and leaving evidence that there was a leprechaun in the room the night before (shamrocks all over, "irish" names on their desks, flipped over furniture, etc.). At the end of the day, the shoes disappear and gold coins are placed on their desks along with a note from our leprechaun thanking us for finding his shoes. The kids LOVE knowing that a leprechaun friend has stopped by. The leprechaun always "leaves" activities for the students to do all day long on this special day.
ReplyDeletelove the St Patty's resource:) I also love the "Bee Rules". I teach kindergarten and call my class the "Kinder Hive". love love your goodies!
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love the St Patty's resource:) I also love the "Bee Rules". I teach kindergarten and call my class the "Kinder Hive". love love your goodies!
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