Those Tricky Leprechauns!

Here are my Literacy Centers for St. Patrick's Day week!
This is a sentence building center that I came up with. LOVED this one! It worked out really well and the kids had a lot of fun with it! They were given a "Secret Code" (a row of pictures) and they used that code to build a sentence!

You can see the "code" up at the top of their response sheet:) They use this code to build the sentence. All of the hats are articles, all of the pots are adjectives, the rainbows are nouns and the shamrocks are verbs. The students build the sentence, write the sentence using correct punctuation on their response sheet, and then illustrate a picture of the sentence that they built. You can find this center at my TPT store! Click on the picture below to check out this product!

This next site word literacy center was was lots of fun!! On each work mat, the leprechaun made the site word appear completely backwards!! The students had to use a mirror and look at the image inside of the mirror to see the word correctly. They then had to write the word correctly on their response sheet. They got to use colored pencils to write the words on their response sheet to match the letters on their work mats. (so, they were writing "rainbow words")

You can also find this center at my TPT store! Just click on the image below!!

Another center that we did this week was one of Kathleen Pedersen's lift the flap centers.  In this center, the students had to identify beginning diagraphs: wh, sh, th, ch.  This was a great center! When I made my centers, I printed out a set for each child at my center and I used file folders instead of poster board so that each child would have a small, manageable game at their spot. I also made a slight modification for my kiddos. I knew that a lot of my kiddos would have a hard time sounding these words out and writing them on their own. So, I glued labels under each flap. For example, if the picture was a thirty, I glued a label under the flap that said ____irty. That way, they would still have to know what blend the word started with, and would have to fill that part in, but they would easily be able to write the rest of the word.

Well, of course we had a leprechaun break into our classroom the night before St. Patty's day and destroy our room!!! He lost his shoes in our room and left little green footprints everywhere!

He left us some magic powder and asked us to look for his shoes!! We added milk to our powder to make a tasty treat!!! (pistachio pudding:)

We found his shoes and left them in the window for him! (these were some of my old Cabbage Patch doll shoes that I spray painted black. Then, I sprayed them with spray glue and sprinkled green glitter all over them:)

The Leprechaun snuck back into our classroom while we were at lunch and left each kiddo a little treat!! Everyone got their very own "pot of gold"! I don't remember where I found this idea:( All it is, is a black cupcake liner filled with rollos. I put them in clear plastic bags and tied them off with a rainbow ribbon:)

Oh! And here are our leprechaun hats!I think the glitter makes them look a little fancier!!

To attach the shamrock, twist a pipecleaner around your finger. Push one end through the hat and tape the end. Then, tape the shamrock to the other end of the pipecleaner. Now you have a bouncing, fun little shamrock "do-dad":)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

 OoOops! I forgot to post this before...so, I'm editing my post and going back to put it in:) These are pepper prints! You just buy green peppers at the grocery store and cut them in half and carefully get the seeds out. Then, the kids dip them in green paint and use them as stamps. Just kind of a neat activity:)