St. Patrick's Day!

This past week has been a VERY entertaining week! Since it was the week of St. Patrick's Day, our friendly classroom leprechaun, The Leprechaun King, paid us quite a few visits. He started out the week on Monday by leaving green sparkly footprints on our counter and spreading papers all over. Later on in the week, he continued to leave green sparkly footprints, but this time he would leave them on student desks along with a note and a piece of "gold". Students would receive these notes and "gold" if the leprechaun noticed them listening and paying attention during class. In some of these notes, The Leprechaun King would ask students questions about things we were learning in the classroom. Students were kind enough to answer his questions on the back of his notes and leave them on their desks for him to find the next day. Surprisingly, that crazy leprechaun was helping students learn as well! ;)

The Leprechaun King stepped up his game on Friday since this time I discovered some leprechaun movement in my house! He left a note along with his green footprints AND he turned my tap water GREEN! I took a video of the leprechaun evidence left in my house and showed the video to my students on Friday morning. They were very interested to hear about what he had done in my house!

On Friday, we ended our St. Patrick's Day week be having some fun St. Patrick's Day centers. In one of these centers, students had to build a bridge using some "gold" (pennies). This was a great activity to get students thinking about building stable structures. Another center consisted of students writing their own leprechaun story based on pictures in a book. Students enjoyed writing their very own leprechaun story and illustrating it with colorful pictures. The last center involved milk, food dye, and soap. Students watched as the colors in the milk, spread out as soon as the soap touched the milk. We discussed this science phenomenon as students watched the "rainbow" of colors move through the milk.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!