Lucky Leprechaun Scavenger Hunt

Since St. Patrick's day falls on Sunday this year, we celebrated the holiday at school today. To start off the day we had some amazing Irish dancers come to showcase their talents. The children were amazed at how well they could dance. The best part was when they had volunteers from the audience participate. Several children and our very own Miss Amanda were brave enough to get up on stage!

In the classroom, we made a leprechaun trap! The kids decorated the box with tons of green items. They made gold coins to go inside to attract the leprechaun.

While the kids were outside playing, the leprechaun visited the classroom. He left clues around the classroom that the students followed to find the treasure he left behind. They loved searching for each clue and reading the riddle to see where the next one would be! The scavenger is a must do again! I will upload the clues shortly so you can use them if you're interested.

Memorable Moment

Every day we send home Daily Activity Reports with each child. These reports tell the parents what we did in each subject area and the curricular goal that was to be achieved by each activity. This sounds like a lot of writing, but we just make one for each day and make copies for every student!

In addition we also write a memorable moment for each child. Unlike the rest of the report this is tailored individually to each child. In Kindergarten, we like to ask the children what their favorite learning center was every day. This process can be quite time consuming (we all know there is not enough time in the day) so I developed a more efficient method!

I created an area on the side of shelf entitled, "My favorite center was...". Below the title are six buckets. The first five are labeled 1-5 and the final one says names. Each child decorated a craft stick and I wrote their name in nice black letters. Now they can each take their stick and place it in the bucket that was their favorite center! This has made my life so much easier, and it looks cute too!

Dr. Seuss

In honor if Dr. Seuss's birthday we spent a whole week learning about this amazing author. We gathered up all of the books we could find and read them throughout the week. The books were also available for the children to read on their own. The students had a blast creating their own crazy worlds, just like Dr. Seuss did!

On Monday, our amazing director of education came to school dressed as none other than, The Cat in the Hat! She went around to each classroom and read to the children! They loved it! It truly made the story come to life!