Ireland and St. Patrick's Day: Free Resources, Crafts, Books, and Free Activities

March is not only the month when we celebrate St. Patrick's Day but it's also Irish-American Heritage Month. Since 1991 Presidents have recognized March as the month to recognize the contributions of Irish Americans and their descendants who have played key roles in the foundation of our history. Did you know that there were 9 Irish Americans that signed the Declaration of Independence. I hope you will take some time to celebrate their contributions, too. To see some famous Irish Americans just click HERE.

I've put together some great resources for St. Patrick's Day and always like to start with great books. I have to say that my favorite book is "Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato". If you click on the picture below you will see a great list to chose from.

Of course there is always Scholastic that has all your st. Patrick's Day need that you can access by clicking on the picture below. There are lots of materials for all elementary grades to be found.

For those of you looking for some great crafts to make with your students, games and history about St. Patrick's Day and fun facts, you should visit Kid Connect by clicking on the picture below.

For those just looking for fun crafts to make then click on the one below to get complete instructions.

I revised my St. Patrick's Day Unit to include reading and writing activities about Ireland and it's national symbols. I've included my own Shared Reading Book, Picture/Fact Reading Cards about Irish-Americans and Ireland's National Symbols, 2 Reading Texts and Comprehension Questions about Ireland and St. Patrick's Day at the 2nd and 3rd Grade levels and Map Activities and a Subject Poem about Leprechauns. Students will write a Country Report about Ireland, A Persuasive letter to a Leprechaun and a Subject poem about Ireland. There are also 4 writing prompts to include Informative text and Opinion Pieces. If you download the Preview File you will see sample pages of all the reading and writing activities in this unit. Just click on the image below.

Hope you all have the luck of the Irish and find some fun free resources for you to use with your students.

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St. Patrick's Day: Free Resources, Books, and Activities

I can tell you that today I didn't have the luck of the Irish. Unfortunately all my blog pictures are gone forever and somehow I will try over the next month to redo all my posts and add the pictures back. I hope you will bare with me.Hopefully you won't have any problems viewing these.

I've put together some great resources for St. Patrick's Day and always like to start with great books. I have to say that my favorite book is "Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato". If you click on the picture below you will see a great list to chose from.

Of course there is always Scholastic that has all your st. Patrick's Day need that you can access by clicking on the picture below. There are lots of materials for all elementary grades to be found.

For those of you looking for some great crafts to make with your students, games and history about St. Patrick's Day and fun facts, you should visit Kid Connect by clicking on the picture below.

For those just looking for fun crafts to make then click on the one below to get complete instructions.

Did you know that March is Irish-American Heritage Month? I revised my St. Patrick's Day Unit to include reading and writing activities about Ireland and it's national symbols. I've included my own Shared Reading Book, Picture/Fact  Reading Cards about Irish-Americans and Ireland's National Symbols, 2 Reading Texts and Comprehension Questions about Ireland and St. Patrick's Day at the 2nd and 3rd Grade levels and Map Activities and a Subject Poem about Leprechauns. Students will write a Country Report about Ireland, A Persuasive letter to a Leprechaun and a Subject poem about Ireland. There are also 4 writing prompts to include Informative text and Opinion Pieces.If you download the Preview File you will get a free activity.
Just click on the picture below to see all the materials in the unit and get a free activity.

I also have a freebie for all my wonderful followers and viewers. I had a lot of great feedback from my Presidents Day Noun Sort so I made one to go with my Celebrating Ireland and St. Patrick's Day. You can download your freebie by clicking on the picture below.

Hope you all have the luck of the Irish and find some fun free resources for you to use with your students.
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St. Patrick's Day: Making Sentences with Sentence Frames

Hard to believe that it is March and St. Patrick's Day will be here soon. I got a lot of nice comments on my first post about making sentences with sentence frames so I decided to do one for St. Patrick's Day and add a little extra. I decided to add Picture/Word cards to make sure that students are familiar with the vocabulary that is related to the holiday such as in the picture below. Students will not only match the pictures and words but also have a chance to write about a few of them.

In the teacher directed activity each student will have the 3 sentence frame cards. Explain that every sentence needs to have these 3 parts. On the board or on a sentence strip, if you use a pocket chart, write the following sentence that you see below: The girl is holding a gold coin. Then hold up "is holding" card and ask the students, "Hold up the card that tells what part of the sentence this is." Students will then hold up the frame card "is doing or did" card. By checking all the cards you can informally assess which students do not understand. You can ask students to hold a pencil in their hand and ask, "What are you doing?" The students reply by saying: "I am holding a pencil in my hand." Ask if "holding is something you do? Is it an action? Then it is "is doing or did" part of the sentence.

Continue with "The girl" and "a gold coin" Then talk about how every sentence begins and ends. There is another example to do with the class in the packet. Then students will practice making sentences with frames such as the one below which you will copy and cut for a literacy center activity. Then students will write their completed sentences on a recording sheets. There are 8, 3-frame sentences and 8, 4-frame sentences. 

Students will then write sentences and illustrate them and also unscramble sentences. 

Finally they will choose words from a Shamrock  and write 4 sentences independently to assess their understanding of writing a complete sentence.

You can check out the complete lesson and get 2 free activities when you download the Preview file by clicking on the picture below.

I also have a freebie  reading activity that can be used with the writing packet that you can download by clicking on the picture below called : St. Patrick's Day: Roll the Die and Read Activity.

Hope you enjoy the free activities. Thanks for all you do to make a difference for your students.