St. Patrick's Week

We were lucky all week in Kindergarten! We learned many things about Ireland, St. Patrick's Day and enjoyed some leprechaun fun.

Earlier in the week, our Science experiment consisted of erupting rainbows (vinegar and baking soda).

During Engineering, we read How to Catch a Leprechaun by  Justine Korman.  My students loved seeing the different ideas that the kids did to catch the leprechaun.  After the students went back to their desks, they had to draw how they would build a leprechaun trap.  After they drew their trap, they created it out of everyday items from our STEAM materials.  Each of our traps were different and my Kinders enjoyed explaining how their traps work on SeeSaw! They got to video tape each other and show their parents immediately how their traps worked.

After we were finished with our traps, we brainstormed what we would think, feel, say, and do if we caught a leprechaun.  We came up with many different things that we could do.  Many students wanted to ride a rainbow or get the gold.  This student want a Lamborghini!  :)  Kids say the best things!












After reading The Night Before St. Patrick's Day by Natasha Wing, we made a pot of gold art so the leprechaun might come into our room trying to find all of the gold.

On Friday, when we came into the room, there was a tricky leprechaun who painted rainbows everywhere, left footprints on our tables, turned out posters around, left a mess in our library and our leprechaun traps had gold coins in them!

Of course we made some leprechaun art and enjoyed our week study of leprechauns!

 

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