Shamrock Art

Hey everyone!  I wanted to share something that my kids create every year.  Shamrocks!  Last year I had the kids create them and write 3 reasons they are "lucky", this year I had them add some examples of personification onto the leaves.  

Here's how we made them... one piece of 9x12 construction paper folded into fourths.  Then we did the final fold and cut out a heart shape.  2 hearts were glued point to point, then the other 2 were glued on to fill in the final shape (all points toward the middle).  The extra green construction paper was then used to cut out a stem.

Here are some pictures from last year:

I used the personification foldable from Jivey's mentor sentence foldable and had them glue the sentences on top before they had to draw a literal example of it.  

Have a wonderful day!

I LOVE March!! {Art, Writing, and a Parts of Speech Freebie}

I absolutely LOVE the month of March.  Some of my best memories are in March.... Falling in love, having our eldest son, and getting married - No, that didn't all happen in the same year.  

March 2001 - Starting to date, had an emergency appendectomy, and fell in love while on heavy medicine.

March 2002 - Got married

March 2004 - Having our eldest son, exactly 3 years after our first date.  I can't believe he's turning 10 next week!!

In the classroom I love to celebrate March too.  I think it's so much fun to bring in some Irish fun.  

Last year I had my class make their own shamrocks out of 4 green hearts.  They wrote ideas why they were LUCKY on each of the hearts.

This year I have also learned how much my students love coloring Parts of Speech.  I decided to dive into trying to create some of my own...

They were duly impressed, and I'm so proud of how they came out.  :)  

It's my March freebie that I'm sharing today with you.  Reviewing 20 nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and prepositions.  I hope it can help you.

I'm linking this up with Joanne over at Head Over Heels for Teaching - because with both activities my students are so motivated to learn, write, and create!


Have a great day!

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Love the graphics in my freebie?  They came from Scrappin Doodles!