lucky patterns

The last St. Patrick's day extension activity the students worked on was patterns. I photographed different patterns using foam St.Patrick's day beads. I laminated the pattern strips and hole punched the corner and added a ring to keep the patterns together. The bag was purchased for a dollar at a office supply store and the vinyl words and clover were made using my personal cutting machine. The students loved this activity!

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St. Patrick sensory bin

Our sensory bin this week is themed for St. Patrick's day. The first picture shows the items going into the tub. We had: a small clay pot painted black, foam St. Patrick's day beads, foam covers, gold coins, and plastic jewel shamrocks. The second picture is the bin assembled.

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extension activity ~ lesson 18 money

As an extension to our units money lesson, I created a "lucky change" activity. One set of shamrocks has images of coins and the other has the written money amount.
1.) One level of play is for the student to match play money coins to the coin images on the shamrocks.
2.) Another way to play is to match the coin shamrock to the written amount shamrock.
3.) A higher level of play would be to give the student the written amount shamrock and find the coin shamrock to match or count out play money to match the written amount.
I'm sure there are many more ways to play, but these are the 3 basic ways we practiced with.

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extension activity~ lesson 25

This week is St.Patrick's day and we are incorporating that holiday into our lessons. We are finishing up our geography unit, and working on our last couple of lessons before doing our end of unit testing. The original lesson (lesson 25) was about pairing up big and little pictures. So to extend this lesson and incorporate the current holiday, I made a sort board lesson. Students are to take the foam 4 leaf covers and put them into the correct column on the sort board. To store this activity, I put the pieces into a baggie, laminate the sort board, and laminate a large envelope for the pieces to be kept in.

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