Happy Pi Day and Making Pots of Gold

As you know the sneaky leprechaun has been paying us visits when we are out of the room! Today he had a blast decorating our cubbies which we found when we arrived today! We still haven't caught him yet, but we sure are trying. We tried to lure him into our room with our fake gold during one of our math lessons. No luck here! But we did strengthen our number recognition skills, our counting skills, following direction skills, and even vocabulary skills (next, before, after) while we made 6 pots of gold! 

Later we were excited to celebrate National Pi Day! Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter -- which is a bit heavy of a concept for our young, bright minds. So we kept it exciting and relevent by working with circles! We worked on our fine motor skills, handwriting skills, and shape identification skills while we made a pig! Check it out, and Happy Pi Day!

OT Mini-Gym and The Playground

It was a great day full of learning and adventures. Here is a peek into our day in the mini-gym and on the playground!

Lucky Charms and Green Peppers

We had a visitor today and boy did we have a blast! We have really been working on our sorting, graphing, counting, patterns, and the comparison vocabulary (more of, less of, least of, most of) and it paid off in today's lesson! In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day we used Lucky Charms to do our math activity and when we were finished we had the opportunity to enjoy a sweet tasty treat! Later we made used a green pepper as a stamp to make shamrocks! We talked about what happens when yellow and blue paint are mixed (it makes GREEN!). 

If you are interested in a Lucky Charm Graphing sheet please scroll to the bottom of the blog and look under "Resource Pages"

Rainbows

Today we welcomed one of our classmates back from his trip. We really wanted to include him in our Cat in the Hat poster! Check it out! (original Cat in the Hat blogpost)

St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner! Today we made rainbows to attract the sneaky leprechauns. Our rainbows helped us work on number recognition, number sequencing (both froward and backward), comparison vocabulary, fine motor control, following directions, color recognition, etc..

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the blog (under resource pages) to see the inspiration behind this project and how you can also make your own rainbow!

Educators:

For other grade levels you could turn this into a measuring activity. Students could measure starting with 12 inches and going down an inch at a time for each color.