St. Patrick's Day in 1st

Today is my last day of Spring Break! It went too fast! I was able to get some curriculum mapping done, though, so that was important!  My animals and I spent lots of time together too! They will be sad to go back in their crates next week.... which is only a 4 day week for me might I add!  We get Good Friday and Easter Monday off so it'll be a nice way to ease back into working again.
Anyway, without further ado.... here is how first grade celebrated good ole St. Patrick!
We read many different St. Patrick's Day stories and the children learned about the pot of gold myth sitting at the end of the rainbow.  So, we made our own pots of gold (with glitter of course!) and I explained the phrase, "worth more than gold."  The kids did a great job choosing someone who is worth more than gold to them and wrote about why they were special.  I LOVED this activity!  The kids did a great job and were so excited to take it home to share with their special person.  I got the template for this activity from The Teacher Wife.

We read the book That's What Leprechauns Do by Eve Bunting.  The children learned that leprechauns are supposed to be mischievous little guys.  I told them to imagine themselves as a leprechaun and create a wanted poster for yourself.  They named their leprechaun by using O' and then their first or last name.  They thought it was fun to think of themselves as leprechauns. I liked their "last seen" comments! The template for the wanted poster can be found here.

The last craftivity that we did for St. Patrick's Day was making leprechaun masks.  I found an old project that was a hand-me-down that had the children make a large leprechaun using brass brads to connect arms and legs, etc.  I took just the head part and had the children attach it to a Popsicle stick instead.  Below you'll see my little leprechauns posing for a picture.

And then I can't forget sock monkey getting in on the fun!

Alright, goodbye St. Patrick!  Time to make way for the Easter Bunny!