Mrs. Berry's Beach Buddies

St. Patrick's Day During COVID 19

With schools closed here in Virginia, I am now homeschooling my grandson. 

To begin, we watched a video on YouTube about the origins of St. Patrick's Day, focusing on the symbols of Ireland and St. Patrick's Day such as the shamrock. 

Then, because the city library is closed, we watched a video of the children's book, Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato:  

Potato block printing of a shamrock

My grandson added a rainbow after we discussed the colors of the rainbow and how to remember the order: ROY G. BIV.

St. Patrick's Day Math: Sorting Lucky Charms' marshmallows, counting , and comparing groups.

Roy: Red, Orange, Yellow

G.: Green

Big: Blue, Indigo, Violet

Trivia:  Did you know that when you see a double rainbow the other rainbow is the inverse of the first rainbow?

Ten Frames were used to my grandson could add up the total number of marshmallows in his bowl of Lucky Charms.

With the other half of the potato from our potato block printing, we will experiment to see if anything will grow from the potato EYE if put in water.

Starting a potato journal and using a portable Word Wall to help with the spelling of subject-specific words.

Day 1

Day 2

We watched another video on YouTube of the storybook, How to Catch a Leprechaun.  Afterwards we did a directed drawing of a leprechaun.  Then my grandson wrote how he would catch a leprechaun.

When all school work was finished, we made St. Patrick's Day cupcakes.  (They were pretty ugly, but they tasted good!). Both of us were exhausted at the end of the day!