This rainbow place value activity has children match pots of gold to tens and ones cards. Made for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using Plenty O' Pennies Counting Pennies Activity, students practice counting pennies to build their coin counting skills.
Using Lucky Charms Before and After Activity, studentsplay this fun game to practice identifying before and after.
This St. Patrick's Day clip art activity gives Preschool to 1st Grade children 15 fold-over picture cards, a card hunt game and a practice page, with an answer key included, to grow holiday vocabulary.
St. Patrick's Day flash cards for preschool to 2nd grade: 12 fold-over picture word cards plus a practice page, answer key included, to build holiday vocabulary for reading and writing.
Using this St. Patrick's Day Mini Pack, students learn about St. Patrick's Day through ten fun worksheets and three activities.
This st. patrick's day bw writing paper worksheet gives kindergarten writers seven tall lines and a shamrock coloring strip, turning holiday writing practice into a cheerful March activity.
Shamrocks, rainbows and a sneaky leprechaun
For kindergartners, St. Patrick's Day on March 17 is pure magic. They learn it is a green holiday that started in Ireland, and they meet the shamrock with its three little leaves, rainbows and the legend of the tricky leprechaun with his pot of gold. We use the excitement to count coins one by one, name rainbow colors in order, and read simple holiday words. Counting pennies into a pot, 1, 2, 3 ... 10, is a kindergarten favorite. Kids will talk about the leprechaun who "visited" your classroom for days!
Short, hands-on and full of wonder: that is the kindergarten sweet spot.
Kids drop pennies into a pot one at a time, saying each number out loud. Then they count them again to check. Touching each coin as they count builds the one-to-one counting kindergartners need.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withPlenty O' Pennies Counting Pennies ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Hold up a holiday flash card for two seconds, then hide it. Can they say the word? Kindergartners love the "peek" game, and repeating it a few times across the week helps them recognize the words.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withSt. Patrick's Day Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Pull a counting page, a coloring page and a letter page from one St. Patrick's Day pack for morning tubs. A mix of small tasks fits five-year-old attention spans perfectly.
Why it works: mixing different kinds of problems in one practice set helped students do far better on a later test (Rohrer and Taylor, 2007).
Try it withSt. Patrick's Day Mini PackWorkbooksOpen it →Leprechaun-sized fun for little learners.
ActivitiesPull a number from the "lucky" box and hop to the numbers that come right before and after.
Open Lucky Charms Before and After Activity →
ActivitiesSort colorful counters into a rainbow, then count each color.
Open Rainbow Place Value Activity →
WorksheetsDraw a picture and write a few words to the leprechaun on shamrock writing paper.
Open St. Patrick's Day BW Writing Paper →Teacher favorites right now: Rainbow Place Value Activity, Plenty O' Pennies Counting Pennies Activity and Lucky Charms Before and After Activity.
Keep it simple: it is a holiday on March 17 that started in Ireland, and people wear green and look for shamrocks. Leprechauns and pots of gold are fun pretend stories that go with it.
A shamrock is a little green plant with three leaves, a symbol of Ireland. Kindergartners love counting the leaves and spotting shamrocks around the room.
Counting coins, sorting rainbow colors, simple holiday words and a leprechaun note or trap are all great fits. Keep each one short, about 10 to 15 minutes.
Yes! Building a trap is a playful way to plan, build and talk about ideas. Kids describe their trap and draw it, which sneaks in speaking and writing practice.
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