St. Patrick's Day week

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Ana's Week
 
Any week spent celebrating a holiday is a fun week, but on a week spent celebrating a holiday that I’ve always loved but never known much about, I enjoyed myself more than usual! I love having corned beef and wearing green, but I never knew much about St. Patrick and why we celebrated the day (other than that it is believed that he sent all of the snakes out of Ireland and therefore is my hero). Both of my girls loved playing in the St. Patrick’s Day rice bucket (always a favorite of them both), but the big hit of the week was the pot of gold scavenger hunt. Over and over again, Aria and I would take turns being leprechauns and hunting for gold hidden throughout the house to fill up our pot. The green scavenger hunt was also fun, easy, and Aria was really proud of herself for finding everything on the list. Aria also loved the skittles science activities that we did, especially the part where she got to enjoy eating skittles at the end. (I know, I know, ruining all the hard work of our healthy lifestyles week)! My biggest success of the week was spending time baking Irish soda bread for friends. Aria helped with every part of the baking and was super enthusiastic about the activity. I love that she loves spending time with me in the kitchen these days!

The hardest thing to find for this week was information and activities focused on St. Patrick. Either they were too complex for PK-3 or didn’t exist at all, so the video that I found about St. Patrick was a massively helpful find and actually taught me information about St. Patrick too! Aria watched it a few times and seemed to enjoy his story, so I highly recommend watching the St. Patrick Youtube video. Also, if you don’t want to spend a ton of money buying books or the time running to the library, there are actually a lot of St. Patrick’s Day books that you can find being read on Youtube. Aria loved the Night Before St. Patrick’s Day the best! 
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Make sure to spend the week above all else having fun and celebrating! We had several playdates during the week and Aria loved gifting her friends bread or doing St. Patrick’s Day themed tea parties. Getting friends to join in the party is a good way for the kids to get even more excited about the unit of the week! Though we will have to spend more time talking about Ireland in the future, we had a great time reviewing rainbows, pretending to be leprechauns, celebrating St. Patrick, and getting as green and festive as possible! Can’t wait to do it all again next year!
 

Jessica's Week