Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in the classroom this year? Here are a few favorite St. Patrick’s Day activities to celebrate (and keep the learning going…mostly)!
Inferencing Freebie
This activity is based on inferencing skills. Students will be given hidden clues and will have to guess what’s in the leprechaun’s pot of gold. Who doesn’t love a good mystery?! Go grab this freebie to use in the classroom.
If you love it, there’s more where that came from in my St. Patrick’s Day Activity packet.
Color by Sound
Keep practicing your phonic skills while having a little themed fun! Easy to differentiate, print, and go for every level in your classroom.
Green Tasting Party
This has to be one of my favorite ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, having a “Green Tasting Party”! The benefit of this is that many green foods are green 😉
Here’s how it works:
-Ask volunteers to gather green foods (kiwi, cucumbers, lettuce, broccoli, grapes, apples, celery, pears, marshmallows, M&M’s…).
-Ask volunteers to precut and package their items.
-Ask for volunteers on the day of to help pass out the foods.
-Have the students taste and rate their foods.
Now when they go home they will have a list of green things they ACTUALLY like!
*don’t forget to have your student allergies noted*
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Picture Vs. Text Evidence
Finding evidence in the pictures versus finding evidence in the text is a skill we are working on in first grade (RI 1.6). It is important to tell where you are getting your information. Eventually, this standard builds into using the text and pictures to tell more about a character, setting, or event of a story/text.
I took the idea of a gallery walk and put a little spin on it to capture the skill we were working on.
If you want to know more about this activity, read it here! Resources are linked there as well. This idea can actually be used for any subject or holiday, its focus is the skill.
St. Patrick’s Day Read Alouds
Silly McGilly & Doll (can be used like Elf on the Shelf)
How to Catch a Leprechaun (perfect to read and make a trap)
Other March Read Alouds
There’s nothing like a read aloud, so here are some Irish themed ones. These are appropriate for grades K-5. Both new and old book titles, these are sure to be a crowd pleaser. I love that with any read aloud, there are so many lesson activities and extensions to follow. Read more about that here and get these titles into your classroom today.
Lucky Charms Graphing
I don’t know about you, but I’m all for any activity that involves food! Is it even St. Patrick’s Day without Lucky Charms? This graphing activity is the perfect combination of math AND food. Students will sort, count and practice graphing skills with this magical free resource from Creating for Primary.
Leprechaun Trap
This simple activity is perfect to engage your students in STEM, building leprechaun traps! All you need are some items easily found at your local Dollar Tree or Target and let the fun begin. Find all the details over on Simply Kinder!
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