St. Patrick's Day!

I love doing fun craft ideas with my students especially for various holidays.  I think it's important that students learn about special days.  We explained a little about St. Patrick's Day early in the month since the calendar helper usually gets to dress up in various items that are based around the month.   I was really excited for my student to learn more about St. Patrick's day because I constantly want to expose them and build their oral vocabulary.   So, on Friday March 15th we celebrated St. Patrick's Day with lots of fun crafts, graphing,  and writing.  We read the book The Luckiest St. Patrick's Day Ever! by Teddy Slater and discussed the various symbols of St. Patrick's Day!

I used A Cupcake for the Teacher Leapin Leprechaun activity found here in her TPT store to make fun Leprechauns with my students.  They were gorgeous....and my students listened and followed directions well. Funny story, I had no skin color paper so, being the resourceful teacher that I am :) I use manilla folders and it worked really well. Manilla  folders will now be my skin color substitute.

Most of my students seem to only remember that Leprechaun's favorite color is green, they are sneaky, and they find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

hahahaha!!! I would go to someone's house and steal their food.

I will drink green juice and eat green broccoli ( I like this one!) 

Yesterday was my birthday and I'm 16 again!!!! or 18!!! or 100!!!!  Mr. J, the sweetheart that he is, sent me two cakes. He had them delivered to the office???? Can you believe that? He knows how to make a girl happy :)

                                                   

Have a slice!My kids enjoyed the chocolate cake.  They were both delicious. 

 

Oh and me !!!