Can you believe it’s almost March?! Where has this school year gone?! March is about the time that we really start kicking it into high gear, but of course we have to have a little leprechaun fun for St. Patrick’s Day! You will find many St. Patrick’s Day activities in this post, as well as this St. Patrick’s Day addition freebie!
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St. Patrick’s Day Activities: Ten Lucky Leprechauns
If you read my “Ten Grouchy Groundhogs” post, you would have seen that I love incorporating literacy into my math instruction! AND I love Kathryn Heling’s series of “Ten…..” books! Ten Lucky Leprechauns begins with one leprechaun searching for other leprechaun friends and treasures. This particular book lends itself perfectly to adding one.
The adorable illustrations are vibrant with color, while the rhyming text is full of new vocabulary words. As we read, we take time to define these words using the context clues from the text on that page.
I was lucky enough to get Ten Lucky Leprechauns from Scholastic a couple years ago. If you are unable to find it there, you can always grab it from Amazon using this affiliate link.
During our math instruction, I reread the story. This time, I have the students act out the story using a ten frame and counters. I stop after each page so that the students can model the story. Then, we orally recite the number sentence that fits this story problem…such as one plus one equals two.
After reciting the number sentence, we record it on our response sheet. We continue modeling the story with our ten frame and recording the number sentence until we reach the end of the story, which by the way is incredibly cute!
St. Patrick’s Day Freebie
If you’d like to give these St. Patrick’s Day activities a try in your classroom, head to the bottom of this post to download them for FREE!
St. Patrick’s Day Activities: Centers
We also have a little St. Patty’s Day fun with the following St. Patrick’s Day activities during our math and literacy stations!
NONSTANDARD MEASUREMENT
NUMBERS BEFORE AND AFTER
DECOMPOSING 10
MODELING ADDITION PROBLEMS
USING PICTURES TO ADD
-OT FAMILY WORDS
COUNTING SYLLABLES
SIGHT WORD IDENTIFICATION
ABC ORDER
PHONEME SEGMENTATION
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF LETTERS IN WORDS
More St. Patrick’s Day Activities
Don’t forget about this adorable “How to Catch a Leprechaun” craft for procedural writing!
Read about our fine motor St. Patrick’s Day activities in this blog post.
Practice scissor skills with this simple rainbow craft!
Your students might also enjoy these digital St. Patrick’s Day activities!
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