St. Patrick's Day
Write a poem about green things. Glue onto a shamrock. To design the shamrock, trace a pattern onto white construction paper. Then using a small shamrock pattern, use various shades of yellow and green chalk to trace along the outside of the shamrock and rub the chalk onto the larger shamrock.
Example of a poem: focus can be on adjectives
Green
The Incredible Hulk
Slimy mold on an orange
The Statue of Liberty
Snapping sea turtles
Juicy sweet grapes
A fuzzy bouncing tennis ball
Shamrocks
Writing project with emphasis on possessives
Draw a leprechaun and color it. Write a descriptive paragraph using possessive nouns. Also focus on different ways to begin a sentence.
Math Idea
Give a bowl of Lucky Charms to
share between two students. Separate the marshmallows from the cereal.
Count and graph the marshmallows. Then write 10 word problems about the
graphs.
Easy questions: How many hearts were in your bowl?
Harder questions: How many shamrocks and moons were in your bowl?
How many more shamrocks than balloons were in your bowl?
Print graphs: