St. Patrick's Day activities are some of my favorite things to do during the month of March! Of course, we make leprechaun traps and try to catch those little rascals. But I also like my kids to understand a little about the history of the holiday. Take a look at how we add some informational writing into this fun holiday.
Learning About St. Patrick's Day
Before we begin any talk of leprechauns, rainbows and pots of gold, I like to teach my students a little bit about the holiday of St. Patrick's Day. We start our St. Patrick's Day activities with this non-fiction powerpoint that tells a bit about the country of Ireland and some Irish traditions.
After the students had a nice background on why we celebrate this holiday, we worked together to create a graphic organizer where we wrote some of the key facts that we learned about St. Patrick's Day.
Writing Activities
Next, the students created their own graphic organizer using this template. They used our class web to help them choose four ideas to include on their graphic organizer.
The next day, we read the book St. Patrick's Day by Gail Gibbons. This book gave the students a little more history about the holiday in a kid friendly way. I love the way the author, Gail Gibbons, combines fiction and non fiction in her books.
We added a few more details to our graphic organizer when we finished the story.
Finally, it was time for the kids to write their reports about St. Patrick's Day. They used this writing template to help them remember all the parts that should be included in informational writing.
When they were finished with their writing, they made this cute leprechaun craft. We hung their reports and leprechauns in the hallway on our bulletin board for a cute March display!
If you're ready to do some St. Patrick's Day activities with your students, you can take a closer look at this unit here or pin for later.
Looking for more ideas for the month of March? Hop over here to see how we catch some leprechauns!
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