Daily Teaching Guide Preschool March Week 2 St. Patricks Week Day 3 Circle Time: Shamrock Numbers First, you will need to print out the “shamrock small number file” onto heavy paper such as card stock paper. Then cut the shamrocks out, you may want to just cut around them; like a circle and not actually cut them on the lines. You will need a marker. On each shamrock write a number such as 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5 through number 12. You will need twelve paper plates. On each paper plate write one number 1 – 12. Have the children sit in a circle. Have the children help you place the paper plates on the floor and place them in order 1 – 12. Place the shamrocks with the numbers written on them into a cloth bag. Have the children take turns picking out a shamrock and then have them tell you what number is written on the shamrock. Have the child then take the shamrock and place it onto the correct paper plate by matching the number on the shamrock to the number written on the paper plate. Help the children as needed. Song/Rhyme: Walk Around the Shamrock Tune to: Ring Around the Rosie Walk around the shamrock Pocketful of gold Rainbows, rainbows we all fall down! Print out the large shamrock file onto green cardstock paper and cut out and place onto the floor and have the children hold hands and walk around the shamrock and sing the song above and they all fall down or sit down at the end of the song. Art Time: Textured Shamrock Print out the large shamrock to use as a pattern cut out one shamrock from heavy paper, such as card stock paper, for each child. Have the older children cut out their own shamrock and teacher will cut out the shamrocks for the younger children. Next, give each of the children some glue and have them cover the shamrock with glue. Then pass out some green rice to sprinkle across the glue or place the colored rice onto a paper plate and have the children dip the shamrock, glue side down, onto the rice and press firmly and then lift off and place onto newspaper to dry. Please Note How to color the rice. Recipe One You will need some green rice for tomorrow’s craft. You can color the rice by placing it in a small amount of water and add a few drops of green food coloring. Let it soak until it turns green. Then carefully drain and place the rice on paper towels to dry out. Recipe Two Place rice into a large bowl and put in a small amount of oil, just enough to coat the rice, then put in a few drops of green food coloring and stir until rice is green. Lay out on paper towels to dry. Learning Time: How many shamrocks Teacher will need to print out one shamrock number work sheet per child. Print the file onto copy paper. Have the children count the shamrocks in each section. Have them circle the correct number in each section. Letter/Number Time: Colorful Shamrock Game You will need: White and green cardstock paper, circle stickers and yellow sponge dice (see instructions above - from circle time today). Print out the large shamrock onto white cardstock paper and use as a pattern in cutting out a green shamrock from green cardstock paper, depending on how many children are in your group you may need two or three green shamrocks. Give each child 10 circle stickers and have them take turns shaking the yellow sponge dice and whatever number comes up is the amount of circle stickers that they will put on one of the shamrock print outs, they can put the stickers on either shamrock, on the front or the backs and if they start to run out of room they can put the stickers on top of each other. Whoever uses up all their stickers first, wins. Sponge die: See Day one - circle time - on how to make the sponge die. Special Activity: Shamrock Tracing Teacher will need to print out the small shamrock file and use it as a pattern to cut out a few shamrocks shapes from card board to make stencils for the children to use. Then provide the children with the shamrock stencils you have made. Teacher will show the children how to trace the shamrocks. Teacher will help the children as needed. Provide the children with markers or crayons to color the shamrocks that they make.