Activities Your Kinders will LOVE for March

March is here! Already?!? It feels like this school year is flying by!

Although March is a short month (and broken up because of March Break), there's still a lot of fun activities I've set up!

Since St. Patrick's Day will fall during our March Break and the students won't be in school, I set up some fun activities starting last week and will continue for next week.

LUCKY HAT LETTERS

I made a small sensory bin (filled with black beans) and placed letter cards inside. Students can choose a card, find the matching letter on their mat and trace it. Both uppercase and lowercase are included.

DOT A RAINBOW

I like prepping fine motor activities for students every week or so. I set up paint and Q-tips for students to dot a rainbow.

MATCHING RAINBOWS

I originally made this matching activities for letters (uppercase and lowercase) but then went back and also added rhyming words!

FILL THE POT

My favourite math games are those that are simple and easy to prep! I showed the students how to play this game once and they were set to play with a friend, small group or even alone!

You need 2 dice - numbers (1-3) and +/-. I made my own using wooden cubes I found at Michaels.

Roll both die and either add or take away that many coins from the pot.

CVC SPELLING

To challenge a few of my Year 2 (SK) students, I set them up with this activity. They had to say and listen to the word, then find the letters to spell the CVC word. I made the vowels red to help.

SHAMROCK ADDITION

There are a few students who love addition! I see them adding materials in our class, counting the children and figuring out how many are at school and how many are away, etc. so I made this game for them to try.

COIN STAMPING NUMBER FUN

With my Year 1 (JK) students, I gave them a yellow bingo dabber (you can also use marker, finger paints or stampers) and had them show me the number of coins on each page.

NUMBER LINE

We have been practicing skip counting daily and when I set this huge number line up in the hallway and had students skip count down it, they loved it!

WRITING CENTRE

At the Writing Centre, I prepped a variety of paper and this vocabulary chart to encourage students to write about St. Patrick's Day.

We have been reading a few books and they have really been enjoying them!

CAPTURE THE GOLD - A SIGHT WORD GAME

The group I have this year always asks to play games. ALL.THE.TIME! So I knew they would have fun with this one.

I placed all of these sight word cards in a large pot (I had this one from Halloween believe it or not!). There are also a few leprechaun cards.

Students reach in and choose a card and say the sight word. They keep the card as a point.

If they get the leprechaun card they must put all of their cards back!

We played this during our whole group morning circle time and they wanted to set it up where girls were versing boys.

I also included a recording sheet if you'd like to have your students write all the words they found.

PLAY DOUGH NUMBERS

At our Playdough centre, I left out green play dough and these number mats.

You can find all of the above activities in my NEW "Let's Play - St. Patrick's Day" pack on TpT if you'd like to see more.

FIND IT! ST. PATRICK'S DAY

I have set up this Find It! game before (Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day) so the students knew how to play. It comes with an editable file and includes numbers and sight words. This time I used the sight words.

Students read a word, flip the card over and try to find the pot of gold.

This makes for a great whole group activity or leave it out for students to play during centre time!

You can find this in my "Find It! St. Patrick's Day" pack in my TpT store.

CREATE A MAZE

We just ordered this at our school and I was so excited to try it out! It's called "Create-a-Maze". Students can use the pieces to build a maze and have the ball travel through. The nice thing about this activity is that it isn't flat. There is a ball underneath that allows the board to wobble!

MATH STORIES

The book Ten Tiny Fairies is perfect for showing students how numbers decrease, or get smaller, when you take one away. I had a few fairy items and left them out with the book for students to explore telling a math story of their own.

LIGHT TABLE GAMES

I also set up loose parts at the light table, inviting students to think of their own game to play!

And since it's almost St. Patrick's Day, I printed these rainbows on transparency paper and added them.

SOUND PROVOCATION

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed students taken an interest in music. They have been asking to play classical music such as the Nutcracker, Beethoven and Mozart!

They have also been using the tin cans at the Blocks Centre as drums. So I set up a simple provocation inviting them to think about sound.

Inside the plastic yellow containers (which are just empty Playdough canisters) I filled beans, buttons, rice, small scraps of fabric and jewels for students to guess the sound and also to think about loud sounds versus soft sounds.

I can't wait to see where this provocation leads us!

ST. PATRICK'S DAY WORDS
I made these picture cards to help students spell St. Patrick's Day words. They have a lot of fun with them! (Check on my older blog posts to download Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day ones too!).
Click on the picture below to download these cards for FREE.