St. Patrick's Day

Since I knew that we'd be gone during St. Patrick's Day I wanted to incorporate some leprechaun fun into our week before Spring Break.

 

In math we did pots o' gold addition problems. You can easily do your own story problems at home with your child's toys! Encourage them to do both addition and subtraction.

 

 

 

Our Lead21 theme for the past month has been living things. We have talked about how plants and animals grow and change, and how they are alike and different from one another. For this activity students chose an animal or a plant and drew it's life cycle.

Tadpole, Kindergartner, kid, teenager :)

Cactus-- Seed, some spikes, some more spikes, grown up cactus

 One of the table jobs that students did was to label and draw the parts of a flower, and then inside they wrote about what each part did.

Make seeds, carry water, give food, hold flowers in place

 During our writing time we wrote about how we could catch a leprechaun (story sequence), what we would do if we actually caught the leprechaun, and things that made us feel lucky.

I feel lucky when my friend gave me a dollar and some pies!

I feel lucky when my dad brings home a donut.
 

 To wrap up our unit on plants and animals we read the book The Lorax. After reading we discussed the parts of the story (author, setting, characters, problems and solutions).
The students then wrote about what they would do to help the Earth of they were the Lorax. I put these adorable pictures of them with their Lorax mustaches on the bottoms of each piece of writing.
Enjoy!