St. Patrick's Day

This post is a recount of some of our St. Patrick's Day activities. Holidays are a fabulous time in preschool! We get to be goofy and have a lot of fun. We get to dress up...and we always have the "I'm a teacher" excuse. I have used this excuse many times when justifying why I am buying something. (See: outfit below)

We started our St. Patrick's Day celebrating off by doing a craft I stumbled upon on Pinterest. The children made a rainbow paper chain that led to a pot of gold. The pin for the craft can be found here. How happy does this picture look with all the colors?

Our next activity to prepare for St. Patrick's Day was our door decorations. We talked about what we would do with a pot of gold. Each kiddo cut out a yellow circle and drew what they would do with a pot of gold. They wanted to include a rainbow of hearts...which they all helped to cut. 

The day before St. Patrick's Day we prepared for our school-wide parade. We made hats and wands for the children to march around with. We had to improvise a little with the hats since all we had were styrofoam bowls that couldn't be painted. The children cut out three hearts to make each wand. We secured them to green straws and added white and green curling ribbon. 

 

In the afternoon before the children went home, I read The Night Before St. Patrick's Day by Natasha Wing. The children loved that the leprechaun played tricks in the book. 

Finally St. Patrick's Day arrived! The leprechaun played a trick on us...

GREEN MILK for morning snack! The children loved it. 

They also loved my festive outfit for the day...

How could I pass up the opportunity to buy something with Mickey on it?! See what I mean about using the "I'm a teacher" excuse. But who am I kidding?

-Miss Kapua 

Pre-K Library

Our theme for the month of February was Community. During this is theme we learned about our communities, what makes a community, who makes a community, and different community helpers/careers.

For the culmination of our Community unit, we made a library in our classroom. We learned about authors, illustrators, and librarians. The children worked hard all week on making their own books. They each told me a story, which I typed for them. The children illustrated their story throughout the week. At the end of the week, the children made library cards and we set up a library in our classroom. We left it up into this week because they are so proud of their books are still enjoying "checking out" books. 

 

The books they are oh so proud of!

Library check out desk

Pre-K Library is open for business!

Pre-K Library Cards

Pre-K kiddos enjoying their library and books.

We had so much fun with the books and library. I only hope that they will continue to enjoy reading and will use the public library more often. 

-Miss Kapua