St. Paddy's Day Freebies!

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm so glad the weekend is here so I can recharge a bit. We had parent conferences last week and I was gone all day Tuesday to a textbook evaluation meeting. We're getting new math textbooks next year and are trying to decide between Go Math!, Math Expressions Common Core (we've been using the old version for a couple of years now), and Singapore Math. If you use any of those or have any opinions, I'd love to hear from you!

This week we'll do some fun activities for St. Patrick's Day, continue to work on writing opinions, and begin to wrap-up our biographies unit. It should be fun!

My friend Barbara from Barbara Leyne Designs and GradeOnederful created some monster-themed St. Paddy's Day clipart that inspired a couple of coloring sheets and word searches I'll give my kiddos Monday and Tuesday. If you need a little something for the holiday, grab this freebie! Just click on any image.

There are 2 word searches- one easier, one harder. I'm teaching 2nd grade this year, but a few of my kiddos will feel overloaded if I give them the harder word search. I think I'll just copy enough of each and let them choose.

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Leprechauns and a St. Patricks Day Freebie!

Woohoo, tomorrow's Friday! And we're celebrating St. Patrick's Day! I hope the kids won't be too crazy. They've been telling me stories all week about the leprechauns that came to their kindergarten classrooms and turned chairs upside down, pulled all their cards to red, and left little green footprints all over things. They're so excited! Now I don't always do much for St. Patrick's Day. It's been a few years since I did the green footprints, but after school I thought about the kids and how great this class is and I decided to go back tonight and put out the footprints. Each student will have some Rolo candies (pieces of gold, of course) on their desk in the morning and I think our little leprechaun, Timothy O'Malley will leave them a little note on the board. They should like that.

Today we did a directed drawing of a leprechaun and they loved it!  So I decided to post pictures of a few of them. They turned out pretty cute.

About the brown building... Jesse explained in detail that it was the shack the leprechaun keeps his gold in and the small rectangle at the bottom is the door he goes through. I'm so glad he has some imagination!

This afternoon I quickly put together a paper for my students' desks tomorrow of some St. Patrick's Day Fact Families. If you'd like to use it, just click on the picture. There are actually two pages- one with the larger number at the top of the shamrock and one with the numbers in no particular order. Most of my students got really good at fact families but I'm concerned they're just following the pattern of the top number being the largest in the whole/part charts, so I thought mixing up the numbers might challenge those kids a bit. But those who still don't get it will have the easier one.

Hope you have a fun day too!

 Chrissy

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