2/3 Class Schedule: Rainbows and Leprechauns

Theme: Rainbows and Leprechauns

Monday:

• Circle Time: What is a Rainbow?
• Literature: A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
• Art: Watercolor Rainbow
• Math: Color Matching

Tuesday: 

• Circle Time: What Makes a Rainbow?
• Literature: A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
• Art: Fruit Loop Rainbow
• Math: How Many Colors Do You See?

Wednesday:

• Circle Time: What is a Leprechaun?
• Literature: What is St. Patrick’s Day by Elaine Landau
• Art: Yellow and Blue Makes a Green Leprechaun
• Math: St. Patrick’s size order

Thursday:

• Circle Time: How Can We Catch a Leprechaun?
• Literature: Colors: The Rainbow of the Natural World by Scholastic
• Art: Rainbow Mobile
• Math: Counting My Pot O' Gold

Friday:

• Circle Time: What is St. Patrick's Day?
• Literature: The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• Art: Thumbprint Rainbow
• Math: How many colors?

This Week:

• Game/Movement: Catch the Leprechaun

Music:

• The Colors Song (Tune: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes)

Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Purple, orange, brown and black
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue.

·         I'm a Little Leprechaun (Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a little leprechaun
Dressed in green,
The tiniest man
That you ever seen.
If you ever catch me, it is told,
I'll give you my pot of gold!

2/3 Class Schedule (3/10-3/14): Rainbows and Leprechauns

Theme: Rainbows and Leprechauns

Monday:

• Circle Time: What is a Rainbow?
• Literature: What Makes a Rainbow? by Betty Ann Schwartz
• Art: Rainbow Tear Art
• Math: How Many Colors Do You See?

Tuesday: 

• Circle Time: What Makes a Rainbow?
• Literature: What Makes a Rainbow? by Betty Ann Schwartz
• Art: Cotton Ball Clouds and Tissue Paper Rainbows
• Math: How Many Colors Do You See?

Wednesday:

• Circle Time: What is a Leprechaun?
• Literature: Colors: The Rainbow of the Natural World by Scholastic
• Art: Paper Plate Leprechauns
• Math: Counting My Pot O' Gold

Thursday:

• Circle Time: How Can We Catch a Leprechaun?
• Literature: Colors: The Rainbow of the Natural World by Scholastic
• Art: Coffee Filter Shamrocks
• Math: Counting My Pot O' Gold

Friday:

• Circle Time: What is St. Patrick's Day?
• Literature: The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• Art: Leprechaun Hats and Sun-catcher Rainbows
• Math: Counting Shamrocks

This Week:

• Letter: Yy
• Fine Motor: Making Green
• Game/Movement: Catch the Leprechaun!

Music:

• The Colors Song (Tune: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes)

Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Purple, orange, brown and black
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue.

• I'm a Little Leprechaun (Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a little leprechaun
Dressed in green,
The tiniest man
That you ever seen.
If you ever catch me, it is told,
I'll give you my pot of gold!

 
 
 
 

2/3 Class Schedule: Rainbows and Leprechauns

Theme: Rainbows and Leprechauns

Literature:

• A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
• Leprechaun, Leprechaun What Do You See? (Emergent Reader)
• The Leprechaun's Gold by Pamela Duncan Edwards
• What Makes a Rainbow? by Betty Ann Schwartz

Letter: Zz

• Z is For Zebra
• Z is For Zipper
• My Little Z Book

Art:

• Leprechaun Tear Art
• Cotton Ball Rainbow Painting
• St. Patrick's Day Hand Print Rainbow Craft
• Leprechaun Traps
• Shamrock Tissue Paper Craft
• Fruit Loop Rainbows

Math:

• Counting Gold Coins
• How Many Clovers Do You See?
• Find the Missing Leprechauns

Fine Motor:

• Cutting Squares
• Gluing Tissue Paper onto Rainbows

Music:

• I See Rainbows (Tune: Frere Jacques)

I see rainbows,
I see rainbows,
Way up high
In the sky.

They are red and orange,
Yellow, green and blue.
Purple, too.
What a view!

I see rainbows,
I see rainbows,
Way up high
In the sky.

They are made from sunshine,
Shinning through the rain.
What a view
In skies so blue!

• Rainbows In My Bubbles (Tune: She'll Be Coming' Round the Mountain)

I’ve got rainbows in my bubbles, yes I do.
I’ve got rainbows in my bubbles, yes I so.
When I blow up towards the sun,
They have rainbows, every one.
I’ve got rainbows in my bubbles, yes I do.

3/4 Schedule: Rainbows and Leprechauns

Theme: Rainbow and Leprechauns
 
Literature:
A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day by Natasha Wing
Leprechaun, Leprechaun, Who Do You See? (Emergent Reader)
The Leprechaun’s Gold by Pamela Duncan Edwards
The Luckiest Leprechaun by Justine Korman
 
Letter:
Animal Puppet: Zebra
Z is for Zebra
Z is for Zipper

Leprechaun Letter Hunt

 

Journal Activity:
If I had one wish, I’d wish for ______.
 
Art/Science:
Cookie Cutter Shamrock Painting
Thumb Print Four Leaf Clovers
Fruit Loop Rainbows
Shamrock hats
Leprechaun Traps
Magic Fizzing Shamrocks
 
Math:
How much gold at the end of the rainbow?
Leprechaun and Clover Puzzle
Leprechaun Counting
 
Fine Motor:
Don’t Cut the Leprechaun (Cutting Practice)
Line Lines and Big Lines
 
Music:
Great Big Rainbow
Tune: I’m a Little Teapot 

There’s a great, big rainbow

In the sky,

With pretty colors
Way up high.
When it starts to rain
And the sun comes out-
A beautiful rainbow
Will pop out!
 

Rainbow Song

Tune: Pop Goes the Weasel
 
Let’s all name our colors right now
Red and orange and yellow
Green and blue and purple, too
Look! It’s a rainbow.

PM Preschool Schedule: Rainbow and Leprechauns

Week of 11-15

Theme: Rainbow and Leprechauns

Literature:

A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman

The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day by Natasha Wing

Letter:

Z is for Zebra

Z is for Zipper

Art/Science:

Rainbow Paint

Rainbow Pipe Cleaners

St. Patrick’s Art Mobile

Tissue Paper & Pom Pom Shamrocks

Math:

How much gold at the end of the rainbow?

Color numbers

Fine Motor:

Cut out the clover activity

Music:

GREAT BIG RAINBOW

Tune: I’m a Little Teapot

There’s a great, big rainbow

In the sky,

With pretty colors

Way up high.

When it starts to rain

And the sun comes out-

A beautiful rainbow

Will pop out!