This week has been a shamrocking, shennanigan having, rainbow chasing, Leperchaun hunting kind of week. The week before St. Patrick's day is so much fun for this Irish girl (my maiden name is McConnell). Catholic and Irish, this feast day is about as big for me to celebrate as Oktoberfest is for Germans. Ofcourse I had to share the magical fun exploring the different things that people associate with St. Patrick and Ireland with my kiddo.
Along with St. Patrick's day we focused on my least favorite letter pf the alphabet to teach...the letter Xx. There are hardly any words that begin with the letter Xx, as you all know. I decided to also focus on words that end in Xx. I am just happy my least favorite letter to teach coincided with a really fun themed week.
With it being St. Patrick's Day ofcourse there was no better color choice to focus on than green, green, oh and more green!
Lastly, we are in full fledged potty training mode. While at home it has been easiest to let my kid run around with a bare bottom so because of that I am choosing not to share in-action photos of these activities, and more of just the projects alone.
Monday: Intro Uppercase X/Intro St. Patrick
Books: My XYZ Soumd Box by Jane Belk Moncure (just the x word pages)
St.Patrick's Day by Gail Gibbons
Songs:
Xylophone Song (tune of If Your Happy and You Know It)
Oh I wish I were a xylophone
Oh I wish I were a xylophone
I'd make X-mas extra fun and be the life of the party
Oh I wish I were a xylophone
The St. Patrick song on youtube
Activities:
Intro Xx vocab words and Uppercase X coloring page
Play with the xylophone
Intro St. Patrick's Day. Who was St. Patrick. Activities that happen on St. Patrick's Day.
Tuesday: Intro Green/Shamrock Fun
Books: Take Time to Relax by Nancy Carlson
Green by Nancy Harris
St.Patrick and the Peddler by Margaret Hodges
Songs:
Xx Song on youtube
St. Patrick's day songs playlist on youtube
Activities:
Review Xx vocab words
Invisible Xx marker activity- take a white piece of paper and write x's on it withwhite crayons and use markers to color over the psge to find the x's.
Green paint fun -watch them enjoy mixing yellow and blue paint together to make green.
Intro Shamrock. Shamrocks are a symbol that is most popular with St. Patrick as he used it to help teach about the Holy Trinity to the pagan people of Ireland. painting activity-use the green paint your child made to paint a shamrock.
Wednesday: Intro Lower case x/Rainbows
Books: Xx by Kelly Doudna
Corduroy by
St.patrick's Day by Brenda Haugen
Songs:
Do You Know the X-Ray Man? (Tune of Do You Know the Muffin Man?)
Do you know the x-ray man? The X-ray man? The X-ray man?
Oh do you know the x-ray man?
He uses a special camera to take photos of bones.
Yes i know the x-ray man, the x-ray man, the x-ray man.
Yes, i know the x-ray man.
He helps doctors know if our bones are
healthy and strong
Youtube st. Patrick's day music playlist
Activities:
Review Xx vocab words. Lowercase x coloring page.
X-ray fun. Use black paper and white paint to make handprints/footprints/arm prints...etc that look like x-ray photos.
Play with green colored water in kitchen sink
Intro rainbows and their importance to Irish people. Use markets and heavyweight paper to color all over. If it is sprinlling outside you can go out and watch what happens to the rainbowcolors on the paper.
Thursday:Tracing/Scissor Skills Day/Leperchauns
Books: The Leperchaun's Story by Richard Kennedy
The Color Box by Dayle Ann Dodds
Small Green Snakeby Libba Moore Gray
Songs:
The X Song (tune of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt)
Max X had an extra small xenops
Who played a xylophone
For words that start with x
The people hit the decks
Words like xenops plays xlophones for Max
Xxxxxxx
Youtube st patrick's day song playlist
Activities:
Review Xx vocab words
Make a colorful light box and then play with water beads on top
Green pom pom sorting. Afterwords make little pom pom snakes. Use st Patrick peg doll and roll play the legend of St. Patrick sending the snakes away from Ireland.
Intro leperchauns. Play hide-and-seek where the hider is a pretend Leperchaun.
Friday:Xx Vocab Review Day/Pot 'O Gold (intro money)
Books: Red Fox Running by Eve Bunting
Little Bear Marches In the St.Patrick's Day Parade by Janice
Songs:
What Does the Fox Say?
Youtube St. Patrick's Day song playlist
Activities:
Review Xx vocab and coloring work page
X marks the spot...make a treasure map of house and work together to follow the x's to a special treat.
Play with green playdough
Intro pot o'gold...sort through some change together and talk about what each different coin is called... work together to try make a dollar amount from each coin group. i would not do too much more than that just yet unless your child really loves to count and yall have done sone more advanced counting skills... most 3 yr olds are not really there yet as far as counting bt 5's and 10's and what not.
I will say on the actual day of St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) I love doing a leperchaun (scavenger) hunt with pre-k aged kids. If you have older middle schoolers/high schoolers you can ask them to help write out clues and put them where they need to go while you keep the littles pre-occupied. It is a fun one to explore together as a family watching the little one's excitement. Do not forget to wear green so the leperchaun's cannot pinch ya!
What other fun ways do you think younger ones would enjoy for this theme? Please share!
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