The Leprechaun is Loose! Last year, we attempted to catch that leprechaun. We built traps. We baited him. And boy did he come a knocking! I think we got a little more than we bargained for when this leprechaun got loose. First Things First We use the book, Leprechaun on the Loose to be our literacy connection for the STEM project. You can read more about the book, design, and trap setting BY … [Read more...]
Spring Into Math Fun with Spring Themed Math Activities
Spring Into Math Fun with Spring Themed Math Activities by reviewing all those math skills on a regular basis. It is just smart to keep activities reviewing of all those important skills, even as you are building on new skills while we Spring into Math Fun! Check out these hands on Spring Themed Math Activities. First, look at this one activity to help our learners find the biggest … [Read more...]
St. Patrick Math Activities
March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, just like march math activities! This month brings lots of skill building and practicing as we prepare these little ones for the home stretch! We try to teach all the math standards during this grading period and then grow those skills during the last grading. Using the St. Patrick math activities will be a ton of learning fun. My secret plan to … [Read more...]
Pot of Gold Secret Code Words and More
Are you in need of a FUN activity to engage your class and allow your students to have fun at the same time? Try using secret code words! Secret code words are a GREAT engaging way to practice number recognition, letter recognition, and putting letters together to make words. Here is a little learner in action..He is using the code breaker sheet to write sight words. Here is another student … [Read more...]
Top O’ the Learning For Little Learners
We know March 17th is coming. And we know our little learners are getting more and more excited about St. Patrick's Day. So let's embrace their excitement... harness it... and use it for the greater good. Let's talk about ways to make Saint Patrick's Day more fun and engaging in your classroom.Get ready... this is a HUGE post full of Ideas... products to enhance learning... and … [Read more...]
Center Saturday {with a freebie}
Welcome to my weekly post dedicated to MATH CENTERS. This week, we had a blast with Dr. Seuss, Presidents' Day and US Symbols, and St. Patrick's Day to help us to to review and learn more about math. I try to mix and match our math centers to cover MANY skills for our Some of these are a remediation or review to keep our learned skills in those brains. Other skills are fun … [Read more...]
Meet Silly McGilly
Have you guys met my friend, Silly McGilly? Silly McGilly is an adorable leprechaun who comes to visit your house or school... to play small tricks at night. He doesn't have to play naught trick, but he LOVES to do small SILLY things... like leaving cabinet drawers open or coloring the milk green. And he leaves the night before St. Patrick's Day. Their website … [Read more...]
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover
St. Patrick's Day is coming and I have a plan to get your little loves activity engaged in learning using this book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover! Every student loves the old lady. She eats the oddest, craziest things things and gets our creativity flowing. I love to read to my students out loud to show them emotions, voice hesitations and speed, and fluency to my … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Idea
This is a FUN idea to learn about nouns and adjectives in a FUN way. Take a themed sentence and write it on a sentence strip. Cut it apart. Add a few die cut shapes. Since I picked a March themed sentence, I chose to die cut circles for gold coins. I added the coin pieces in front of the nouns. I have my students add "sparkles" to make the nouns shine! We go noun by noun. We give each word … [Read more...]
Seasonal Eraser Math
I found these awesome seasonal erasers and had to get them. (I think you can still get them at Party City!) You can also grab them here on Amazon. I LOVE erasers for math. How do I use them? 1. Patterns 2. Counters 3. Sorting... add a few of those cute black pots and BINGO. (They always sell them in packs, so I end up with an extra one or two every year.) 4. Graphing So, I made this super … [Read more...]
Today is MY Turn!
Welcome all St. Patrick's Day Blog Hunters! I hope you are having fun and loving this blog hunt idea. I have a tasty idea to share today! This idea was shared with my via my former assistant and wonderful friend. It is too good not to share. Check out our pinterest board http://pinterest.com/maryamoson/saint-patrick-s-day-blog-hunt/ and meet me back here tomorrow for a freebie. I am personally … [Read more...]
Making March Memoriable
Make this March memorable for any child using lions and lambs and... bring alive the saying, "March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb." After make lions and lamb art, my class took these FUN pictures. This was actually the request of one of my creative students last year! *Scrapbook idea!* At calendar, we discuss and vote on whether today is like a lion or a lamb, adding a small picture … [Read more...]
