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Going Green in March

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March is a great time to teach students about the much-loved holiday St. Patrick’s Day! Who can resist those adorable little leprechauns and all the magic that surrounds them and their pot of gold! I know I certainly can’t.

Why not spend this March doing some fun activities that allow students to be a part of this magical month.

Vocab

Here’s a great St. Patrick’s day vocabulary list that students are sure to love.

1)fairy
2)Ireland
3)leprechaun
4)lucky
5)mischief
6)pot of gold
7)Saint Patrick
8)tricky
9)shamrock
10)pinch
11)rainbow

What Exactly is a Limerick you Ask?

• Limericks are humorous rhyming poems which have a pattern
• Limericks were originally written by Edward Lear
• Limericks combine a couplet with a triplet
• Line 1 usually introduces the character
• Lines 1, 2 & 5 rhyme with each other
• Lines 3 and 4 also rhyme

Below I have listed other activities you might like to do with your class to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day:

St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Activities (for k-elementary students):

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/coloring/xstpatscolor.htm
http://www.kidsturncentral.com/coloring/xstpatscolor1.htm
http://bogglesworldesl.com/files4/potofgold.doc
http://www.mes-english.com/coloring/patricks.php

St. Patrick’s Day – Song and Crafts
http://childfun.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26

Reading Activity (intermediate to advanced)
http://www.5minuteenglish.com/mar17.htm


Grammar Activities:

http://www.k12.nf.ca/stedwards/grassroots/teaching_units
/stpatricksday/patrick9.htm

St. Patrick’s Day Word Search –
http://bogglesworldesl.com/files6/stpatricksday_wordsearch.doc

Fill in the blanks (advanced students):
http://bogglesworldesl.com/files6/stpatricksday_cloze.doc


Flashcards with words:
http://www.esl-kids.com/flashcards/stpatricks/small-stpatricks-
words.pdf

http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=41


Irish Quotes (for advanced students):

http://www.eslteachersboard.com/cgi-bin/quotes/index.pl?
noframes;read=1218

Examples of Limericks

There was an old man of Peru
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe
He woke in the night
With a terrible fright
To find it was perfectly true.

-Edward Lear


A diner while dining at Crewe
Found a very large mouse in his stew.
Said the waiter, "Don't shout
And wave it about,
Or the rest will be wanting one too.

-Author unknown

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/bookzone/limericks.html

 




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