March 17th, is St Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's Day observes the death of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The holiday has evolved into a celebration of Irish culture with parades, special foods, music, dancing, drinking and a whole lot of green. The following provides free Printables and Templates that will enable you to celebrate St Patrick's Day at your service and activities that can be implemented into the curriculum for children.
The Recycling Posters provide images of recycling. These can be used as discussion points for children. These can also be used as part of a recycling display.
This STEAM activity is a great project. It uses shapes, gravity and movement to create art with some awesome colours. Children will learn to create a roly-poly art using a fun technique with balls. Children will begin to understand explore its effects and use it to create a colourful piece of art.
The Recycle, Reuse and Repurpose Parent Poster details what Parents can donate from their homes. This is great to display on the Parent Board to inform Parents.
Recycle Bin Tracing Lines enable children to trace over a variety of different lines in different directions. This will help children in the development of their pre-writing skills, hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.
The National Quality Area Reflection Questions Posters area is to be used as a guide for reflecting on each of the standards within each area. Use the information from these questions to recognize good practise or to change and improve what is not working well. It can also be used as part of a Self-Assessment or Quality Improvement Plan. These can be used as a display within the staff room or put into a folder to assist Educators in reflecting.
On the 16th of March, a free online program Understanding and Supporting Children's Behaviour funded through the NSW Department of Education Sector Development Program, Dr Louise Porter and Sandi Phoenix as they share their extensive knowledge and experience around “Connections with Children".
St Patrick's Day Posters provide images of St Patricks Day celebrations. These can be used as discussion points for children. These can also be used in dramatic play.
The Coalition has pledged to invest $1 billion this year to begin the construction of 500 new preschools, moving forward with its core education programme of providing free pre-kindergarten to all four-year-olds.
Counting beards is a fun "St Patrick's Day" counting activity from 1 to 20. Children need to recognise and identify the number on the leprechaun had and add the correct number of orange balls as a beard. This is a great way for children to recognise and learn numbers and for one to one correspondence. This can be used in a variety of ways including with playdough where children can make their own beards out of playdough when laminated children can draw their own beards.
Create colourful soaked prints using a paper towel and watercolours.
Pot Gold Tracing Lines enables children to use hand-eye coordination and encourages them to draw in a specific direction. These are great for children who are developing their pre-writing skills.
