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Children will see how a city dyes its river green for St. Patrick’s Day.

Vocabulary: dust, fades

Social Studies Focus: St. Patrick’s Day

  1. Watch a Video:

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

     

  2. Read the Issue:

    Why Is This River Green?

     

  3. Review Vocabulary Words:

    dust, fades

     

  4. Play a Game:

    Get the Gold!

    Skill: cvc words

     

  5. Complete Skill Sheets

    Show What You Know

    Skill: comprehension

    Follow the Leprechaun

    Skill: maps

     

  6. Lesson Boosters

    Paired Text: How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace

     

    Bonus Skill Sheet:

    What Would You Keep at the End of the Rainbow?

     

    Scavenger Hunt:

    Pages 2-3

     

    Hands-on Activity:

    Make a Leprechaun Trap!

     

CCSS (and states that have similar standards): RI.K.1 key details, RI.K.4 vocabulary, RF.K.3.B short vowels, RL.K.1 key details (literature), W.K.8 writing

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Paired Texts: How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace

  • In rhyming verse, a leprechaun tells how he'll escape from every possible trapuntil someone manages to outwit him. But who will that someone be?

Bonus Skill Sheet: What Would You Keep at the End of the Rainbow?

  • With this fun skill sheet, kids use their imagination and practice reading color words.

Scavenger Hunt: Pages 2-3

  • Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.
  1. Find the heading. Underline it.
  2. Find the picture where the boat is mixing the color into the river. Put a ✔on it.
  3. In the blue box, find the word that means “loses color.” Circle it.
  4. Find three leprechauns on pages 2-3.

Hands-on Activity: Make a Leprechaun Trap!

Skill: STEAM

Materials: How to Catch a Leprechaun skill sheet, recyclables, classroom building manipulatives, and “leprechaun bait” (gold coins, green art materials)

  • Use any combination of recyclables (yogurt cups, cardboard tubes, boxes, pipe cleaners) and manipulatives (blocks, connecting cubes, LEGO® bricks) for this superfun STEAM project!
  • Project the printable. Discuss the tips together. Separate kids into small groups. Encourage them to think about how the trap will work, as well as what they will use to lure the leprechauns in!
  • Leave the traps out the day before St. Patrick’s Day. You can leave signs of a leprechaun’s visit for kids to find the next morning, like gold coins, green beads, even a note!