St. Patrick’s Day and Jazz Game

We had a low-key St. Patrick’s Day this year.  Although really…I guess it’s never all that grand!

We started off the morning discovering a trail of shamrocks that led from the back door to a surprise under the table!

The Leprechaun had left the kids “Puss in Boots”, necklaces, glasses, and his Pot of Gold!  What a generous Leprechaun since normally you have to catch them to get their gold! :)

What happens when Pregnant Brain strikes and Mom realizes we’re out of syrup for the green pancakes/bacon/milk breakfast she had planned?  Dad runs to Burger King so we at least have green ketchup!

That night we went to the Jazz game with my whole family.  My Dad had bought a suite at an auction so we had good food, comfy chairs, and lots of fun!

Abby especially loved the game.  Nat is hoping she’ll be a sports enthusiast with him!

Very intense about the defense…..or something. :)


Yummy ice cream!

It was a fun day!

Tot School/Preschool–St. Patrick’s Day

- Abigail is 25 months old -	- Adam is 4.25 years old -

We had some fun during the week of St. Patrick’s Day!  We didn’t get to everything I had planned, but such is life.  I used the pack from Musings of Me (which is no longer available), and ideas collected from the internet.

Letters

Get to the Gold!
Adam had to trace from a-z to get the Leprechaun to the pot of gold.

Abby also had a page and she colored a letter and named it for me.  I need to sit down and quiz her to see if she actually does know all upper/lower case letters.

Numbers & Math

Both kids enjoyed placing the Leprechauns under the mushroom to match the number I had chosen.

Abby

Adam

I did a little bit of addition with Adam.

Adam did some patterning.

Abby did some size sorting and we used the words “large”, “medium” and “small” while she worked.

Puzzles, Matching, & Games

A favorite was playing Roll a Leprechaun.
We took turns rolling a dice and adding a piece of our Leprechaun that corresponded to the number.

Adam and I worked on a puzzle together.

Pre-Writing, Fine Motor and Manipulatives

Pre-Writing pages for Adam.

“Let’s Cut Paper!” Kumon workbook.
Adam struggles with opening the scissors back up so I just bought a spring-loaded pair.  Hopefully that will ease the frustration for him. 

“Same or Different” Preschool workbook.
He loves workbooks!  He’d do 10 pages a day if I let him.
And this is what Abby was doing….coloring right on top of the table as close as she could possibly get to her brother.  Maybe I need to pick up a few cheap workbooks just for her to scribble in since she obviously knows that his is “cooler” than her coloring book. :)

For some Fine Motor play, both kids spooned beads into an ice cube tray.

Ping-pong balls through a tube.
This was meant just for Abby, but both kids had fun together.

And then they played golf!

“Busy Bugs” from Discovery Toys….a favorite!
Adam worked on patterning.

Abby worked on color matching.

But the most fun is just playing with the bugs!

And this is my location of choice after sitting on the floor for a while….nothing better than laying on the couch and having birthday parties for bugs!

Art & Fun

We made Shamrock Sun Catchers one day.
First we tore up green tissue paper…

Then we stuck the pieces onto clear contact paper…

Then we folded the contact paper over and Mom cut out shamrocks shapes to stick on the window.  Cute, easy, and fun!

On another day we made Marshmallow Rainbows.

Lots of snacking took place!

One of the highlights was making Shamrock Rice Krispie Treats!  I think I’ve made Rice Krispie Treats once so this was a new and fun experience for them.

Man were they hard to cut out!
Finished shamrocks.  Yum!

Sensory Bin

For the Sensory Bin I used split peas as the base and added in foam shamrocks, little shamrocks torn off of a garland, and plastic gold coins.
They had fun digging for gold coins and transferring everything into a “pot of gold”.

 

On St. Patrick’s Day morning they discovered a trail from the door to a pot of gold under the table!
A little Leprechaun had left some goodies for them!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!