Shamrocks… Again!

It’s Friday afternoon, the week is finally over! Well, the week with the students. Anyone who knows me will tell you that a weekend does’t mean I’m resting. I wake up late, but almost work as much! And with Easter coming up, I know I will be busy!
I’m almost getting tired of the Saint. Patrick theme. Of is it the kids that worn me out? Anyway, we did and tried to finish to activities today. On one, they had to write three things/person they were lucky to have. It was so simple! I traced shamrock on green paper, they cut it, they wrote the name of the things and finally draw them. Surprisingly (well not so surprising if you consider this was a Friday afternoon!) half of them are not finished! Here’s the end results of some who did finish though. I’m happy, they did a great job!

After finishing the “Look how lucky I am” shamrock, the students got to work on the big shamrock and rainbow collective craft. Even though it requires good fine motor skills, the kids were really concentrated on it, doing very well and enjoying it. We are, let’s say, maybe at the third of it, which is sad because St. Patrick is on Sunday, but we will finish it on Monday and will be able to enjoy it on our class door for a couple of weeks.

I bought square of tissue papers at the dollarstore without exactly what I would be doing with it. I was playing with it, though it would not look good to just ruffle and glue them. I wanted it to be fluffy and light, so I’ve put is on the tip of a pencil’s eraser, gathered it on the sides, put glue on the tip and press it on the board.

It was easy and you could see the effect of all the papers together relatively fast!

Here’s where we are at now.

 

Happy Saint Patrick’s day everyone! Have fun and be safe!

The pot of gold

My students struggle with writing. When They are left alone with instruction, they freeze and don’t know what to write, or they make every mistake possible (even on words they know) with their poorer hand writing. So for their pot of gold writing, I wanted them to write their idea correctly the first time, so they see their own handwriting, without spelling mistakes, and being able to read what they wrote. We sat together and talked about what they would do if they found a pot of gold. I made a pot of gold with the beginning of the sentence in it and whatever they said I would write underneath. Some answer were very surprising! One would try to find the leprechaun to give it back to him, another wanted to give it to the poor and, my favorite, one wanted to give it to the government!

They then had a simple sheet with a pot of gold on it and writing lines. They wrote their sentence (their choice on what was put on the board) in their most beautiful handwriting. The end result was more than pretty!