Day 3



Circle Time: Colorful Shamrock Game
Teaches Colors

You Will Need: White and green cardstock paper, circle stickers and yellow sponge dice {see instructions from day 1 in lesson plans}.

Directions: Print out the large shamrock onto white cardstock paper and use as a pattern in cutting out a green shamrock from green cardstock paper, depending on how many children are in your group you may need two or three green shamrocks.

Activity: Give each child 10 circle stickers and have them take turns shaking the yellow sponge dice and whatever number comes up is the amount of circle stickers that they will put on one of the shamrock print outs, they can put the stickers on either shamrock, on the front or the backs and if they start to run out of room they can put the stickers on top of each other.

Whoever uses up all their stickers first, wins.

Sponge die: See Day one – circle time – on how to make the sponge die.

This is a fun game for teaching numbers and colors.

Story Time: Bunny, Bunny, What Did You See? Book
Printable Story – Included In March Preschool Curriculum

St. Patricks Day Story
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Bunny, bunny, what do you see? I see a green hat. That's what I see.

This cute printable story is fun for the kids to try and guess what the bunny is describing. This is a cute story for St. Patrick’s Day designed for toddlers, preschool & prek kids!

If you are purchasing our March preschool curriculum this book is included in our curriculum as a printable book.

Song/Rhyme: Walk Around the Shamrock

Tune to: {Ring Around the Rosie}

Walk around the shamrock
Pocketful of gold
Rainbows, rainbows we all fall down!

Print out the large shamrock file onto green cardstock paper and cut out and place onto the floor. Have the children hold hands and walk around the shamrock and sing the song above, at the end of the song, as they say we all fall down, have the children pretend to fall down or sit down at the end of the song.

Our curriculum lesson plans include circle time, story time, song or rhyme, pre–reading, math, science, gross motor and a special activity each day {5 days per week}. Each month of curriculum includes 4 weeks of lesson plans.

Art Time: Shamrock Craft

You will need: White cardstock paper, glue and colored rice {see rice recipe in lesson plans on how to make the colored rice}

Print out one large shamrock to use as a pattern to cut out one shamrock for each child, cut the shamrocks from heavy paper, such as white cardstock paper.

Have the older children cut out their own shamrock and teacher will cut out the shamrocks for the younger children.

Next, give each of the children some glue and have them cover their shamrock with glue. Then pass out some green rice to sprinkle across the glue or place the colored rice onto a paper plate and have the children dip the shamrock, glue side down, onto the rice and press firmly and then lift off and place onto newspaper to dry.

The recipe for making the rice green is included in our March preschool curriculum lesson plans.

Pre–Reading: Turtle Writing & Coloring Page
This Month’s Letter

Print out the turtle writing and coloring page onto copy paper, print out one for each child.

Have the children color the picture, have the children practice writing their letter T by tracing the Tt’s at the bottom of the page.

This month the children will be learning the letters S, T & U, the number 9, the color brown and the shape is an octagon.

Math: Shamrock Numbers
How Many Shamrocks

Directions: Teacher will need to print out one shamrock number page per child, print the page onto copy paper, print out one page per child.
Have the children count the shamrocks in each section. Have them circle the correct number in each section.

Before giving this worksheet to the childen, have them practice on a dry erase board first, directions for this activity are located in our March preschool curriculum lesson plans.

Science: Sorting Lucky Charms

Directions: Teacher will need to print out one shamrock number page per child, print the page onto copy paper, print out one page per child.

Have the children count the shamrocks in each section. Have them circle the correct number in each section.

The moon goes here and the heart goes there and ha ha the pot of gold goes in my mouth!

Print out one Lucky Charms sorting mat per child and lamanate so you can wash these before giving the children cereal to sort on them.

Give each of the children a big handful of cereal and have them sort the cereal onto their Lucky Charms sorting mat, have them place the cereal into the bowl picture and the mashmallows onto the mat by which item it is, the moons will go into the circle that has a moon on it, the hearts will go into the circle with the heart on it, etc.

During science time today the kids will taste the Lucky Charms too to see if the moons taste different than the hearts.

Lucky charms makes a great learning tool that kids can sort, make patterns with them, count them and eat them, Yum Yum!

Gross Motor: The Leprechaun Says Game

Played Like Simon Says

Larry Leprechaun Says {played like simon says but with a leprechaun instead}

How To Play: Played like Simon Says.

The teacher will say Larry Leprechaun or Larry Leprechaun.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says wiggle your fingers". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says swim around". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says fly like a bird". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says act like a cat". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says stomp around like a bear". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says turn around and clap your hands". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Mess up your hair". If anyone does this movement, teacher will say, ut oh, Larry Leprechaun didn't say that!

With young children we don't have them sit out if they get caught doing the movement when Larry Leprechaun did not say to do it, we just continue the game until the children lose interest.

This is a fun gross motor movement game to play with young children on St. Patrick’s Day.

Special Activity: Shamrock Tracing

You will need: Small shamrock file, paper, scissors for the teacher, cardboard and markers or crayons.

Teacher will need to print out the small shamrock file and use it as a pattern to cut out a few more shamrocks shapes from cardboard to make stencils for the children to use.

Provide the children with the shamrock stencils you have made.

Teacher will need to show the children how to trace the shamrocks, help the children as needed.

Provide the children with markers or crayons to color the shamrocks that they make.

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