The Leprechaun's Came!

What a whirlwind of a week filled with Leprechaun shenanigans! Therefore this post will be all about St. Patrick's Day!

Leprechaun Directed Drawing

I have been so impressed with how well our directed drawings have turned out! We have been doing at least one a month and it is so clear that each kids drawing skills have improved so much. We started by following step by step directions on how to draw our leprechaun. Then we used colored pencils to color in our leprechauns and finally we water colored the rainbow background. They make our room so cheerful and bright :)

Leprechaun Traps

What an absolutely amazing engineering challenge this was for kids! We started the whole project off by talking about the steps of the engineering process, designing a plan, gathering materials, creating your project and then refining your project, and then we set off to complete that process with our leprechaun traps. We started with the design, students got to draw out their plans for their trap and list the materials they would need.

Then students got to gather their materials that they had tracked in their supply list and start building. Here are some photos of the supplies as well as the constructed traps.

Finally we were ready to set up our traps to try and catch a leprechaun! Too bad those tricky buggers got away!

Here is the mess that they left!

Despite the fact that we didn't catch anything, we had so much fun making the traps and I loved seeing them working to fix and make their traps better. It was so wonderful :)

If you missed the video that we caught of leprechauns causing a ruckus in our room you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw0H_sLjEgk

One week until Spring Break!

Smiles,

Miss Adams