Teaching Tales Along the Yellow Brick Road: St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope you remembered to wear your green!!

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We are on spring break this week (yipee!!) but I wanted to share a couple of St. Patrick's day freebies with you. I used one of the activities during a homeroom day earlier in the month. I enjoy homeroom days: I usually set up centers for a variety of content areas, not just language arts; it's a fun change up for me.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Luck-of-the-Irish-Rounding-to-the-10000s-Place-591731

The activity we did, was a rounding activity. Just color the shamrocks based on the number that they would round to. Below I'm including another freebie fit for younger students needing review for number order.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hidden-Numbers-St-Patricks-Identifying-Numbers-Activity-594061

Hopefully I can get myself to school today so that I can take a few pictures to update you all on life in my room. We've been super busy I've just been really bad a taking pictures!

While your celebrating St. Patrick's be sure to jump over to visit my blogging buddy Jivey. It's her birthday and she's having a huge giveaway to celebrate!

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I still cannot believe that it's already March! This year has absolutely flown.

Something almost as crazy is that, including today, there are only 14 instructional days in March...say what??? With those oh so wonderful {no sarcasm whatsoever...} tests looming, and several standards I still need to cover/want to review; there is just too much to do in so little time!!

Today I am linking up with Manic Monday to share a copy of St. Patrick's Day freebies.

The first is for upper elementary.

My kiddos still struggle with rounding. This coloring sheet works on rounding to the nearest 10,000. Student's color the shamrock a certain color based on what it is rounded to.

The second freebie is for primary students.

This center helps review missing numbers. Students pick a card and figure out which number is hidden by the shamrock. Students record their answer on the recording sheet by coloring the shamrock on their recording sheet the same color as the square on the card they drew, and filling in the box with the missing number.

I hope that these festive freebies are enjoyed by you and your students!

While your here, I hope you will stop by some AMAZING giveaways that are going on that I'm contributing to.

First up, Where the Wild Things Learn is having their 100 follower giveaway. The drawing ends in just a couple of days, so hurry and join in by clicking their name or the picture below.

Next, Diane from Fifth in the Middle is having her March Madness Giveaway. So many prizes tied to great tournament action. Check it out!! {Oh, and if you haven't already linked up by state you should... what a wonderful way to connect with others, both near and far!}

Joanne from Head Over Heals for Teaching is also celebrating 100 followers! She has an amazing give away going on too! Check them out!

Jessica from Joy in the Journey is also having her 100th Follower Giveaway.... what a great time in blogland! She's such a sweet blogger, you need to check out her blog and giveaway too!

Last but certainly not least, the wonderful gals from Collaboration Cuties, Amanda & Stacia are celebrating 300 followers!! They are having a mega giveaway of prizes for primary, upper elementary and a surprise giveaway too, so be sure to read their whole post!