St. Patrick's Day

     The leprechauns visited for St. Patrick's Day!  They did a little mischief (switched calendar numbers, turned a few sight words upside down,  moved a bench ...) and left a note saying that each child could find 20 pieces of gold and 1 coin.  The children quickly found 20 pieces of gold (pebble stones sprayed with gold paint:) and a plastic coin from the dollar store.  We had cute little green striped envelopes to keep our collections in and to take them home.

     We learned about leprechauns and mischief reading Eve Bunting's book, That's What Leprechauns Do .  It's a great story to help children understand the supposed duties of leprechauns and to understand what mischief might be - a little trick that doesn't hurt anyone or thing rather than something that is mean spirited.

Our centers included green painting on green paper, color words, collecting 50 pieces of gold by rolling a dice and collecting groups of 10 yellow unifix cubes, and rainbows. 

May the Luck by With You,
     Molly