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March Teaching Ideas
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May the luck of the Irish be with you! I have created unique St. Patrick's Day and March resources for English, power point activities, bulletin board displays, and blank writing stationary.
Since St. Patrick's Day is not a very large holiday, I have not created as many themed resources for this holiday as I did for October, November, and winter. All of my St. Patrick's Day teaching resources can be found on this page.
1. St. Patrick's Day Power Point Teaching Resources
This section contains powerpoint lesson plans with a St. Patrick's Day theme. Many students find traditional grammar exercises boring and dull. I encourage you to use powerpoint presentations to bring life to these boring exercises.
My St. Patrick's Day powerpoint lesson plans have been designed using two fonts: Arial Black and Comic Sans. I chose these fonts because they are the most widely found on most computers, and they will not change the style and format when viewed on your classroom computer. I use graphic animations and powerpoint animations when I am designing my powerpoints, and I try to locate colorful background templates for the presentations that I prepare.
Pot of Gold Powerpoint St. Patrick's Day Tricky Word Pairs
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Pot of Gold Powerpoint St. Patrick's Day Tricky Word Pairs
This lesson reviews the following word pairs: its/it's, whose/who's, were/we're, and their/they're.
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There are 14 sets of questions and answers in this St. Patrick's Day Pot of Gold Powerpoint Presentation. There are a total of 35 slides in this presentation.
This powerpoint lesson reviews words that often confuse students that contain, or do not contain, apostrophes using a fun St. Patrick's Day theme.
The following words are reviewed in this lesson: its/it's, whose/who's, were/we're, and their/they're.
Below is an example of a question slide.
Below is an example of a answer slide.
This St. Patrick's Day powerpoint includes a student response answer worksheet. By using this student response worksheet, your students will be actively engaged in participating in this review of tricky word pairs. This response worksheet is found on slide 35 of the presentation. To print this worksheet out for your students, open this document and when you go to print it, select only slide 35 to print, and by doing this, you will not print out all 35 slides that are in this set.
Click on the link below to download a sample of this powerpoint presentation. This sample will show you an example of a sentence slide, and this is the section where students write their answers on their response worksheets. Next, you will see an example of an answer slide, where you review the answers to each question and students grade their work.
This St. Patrick's Day teaching resources section contains examples of colorful St. Patrick's Day reading sticker charts and creative writing assignments.
I hope that these St. Patrick's Day teaching resources help you create some enjoyable reading and writing activities for your students during the month of March.
Leprechauns Love To Read! Reading Sticker Chart Set
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Leprechauns Love To Read! Reading Sticker Chart Set
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"Leprechauns Love To Read" is a sticker chart set that will motivate your students to read at home during the month of March. These St. Patrick's Day teaching resources contain 17 pages of printable resources.
This "Leprechauns Love To Read" sticker chart set contains the following components:
two black and white leprechaun sticker chart templates
two color leprechaun sticker chart templates
a 5 page bulletin board banner (above)
student award certificate in color and black and white
a parent letter and reading record sheet to send home in a Micosoft Word document that you can edit to meet your individual needs and requirements
4 color leprechaun accent pieces for your bulletin board display
You can cut out these reading sticker charts along the thick black lines to have uniquely leprechaun shaped reading sticker charts.
Above: This is a classroom display of these St. Patrick's Day teaching resources used in Teresa's classroom. She teaches 4th Grade in New Jersey.
You can choose to use the template that has a face already on it, or you can use the template with a blank face and students can enjoy drawing their own face for their leprechaun reading sticker chart.
Below are the two black and white leprechaun reading sticker chart templates.
Below are the two color leprechaun reading sticker chart templates.
Below: This set includes a St. Patrick's Day reading student award certificate that you can present to your students when they have completed their Leprechauns Love To Read sticker chart. A black and white copy of this award certificate is also included in this set.
Below is a letter that you can send home to parents that explains this home reading program, along with the worksheet for parents to sign each time their child reads at home. This parent letter is in the form of a Microsoft Word Document so that you can edit it to your own word choice.
Below: This set includes 4 colored leprechauns to use as bulletin board accent pieces to help you create your eye-catching bulletin board display.
The 4 reading slogans that are written inside the leprechaun's hat are:
Put On Your Reading Hat!
"I Tip My Hat To Readers!"
March Away This Month With Books!
Leprechauns Love To Read!
Think Green Creative Writing Stationary and Sticker Chart Set
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Think Green Creative Writing Stationary and Sticker Chart Set
(This Recycling/Environmental themed set can be used anytime of the school year.)
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This Think Green teaching resource set includes a creative writing component and a sticker chart in it.
This is a cross curricular resource that you can link with both language arts and science.
March is the perfect time of year to have your students Think Green and write about recycling or ways to protect the environment. This set could be used any time during the school year though, and I have included it in my March resources because of the green theme.
This set of teaching resources includes 11 pages of teaching resources:
Think Green color stationary
Think Green black and white stationary
Think Green color sticker chart
Think Green black and white sticker chart
Think Green Environmental Award in color
Think Green Environmental Award in black and white
Think Green 5 page bulletin board display banner (above)
I have included a sticker chart in this recycling and environmental set of resources because I used it with my students during the months of March and April. I started this unit in March to tie in with green for St. Patrick's Day and finished it in April to tie in with April 22, Earth Day.
During these two months, my students could do various things to earn a sticker on their Think Green sticker charts. For extra credit, each child found a large box at home and decorated it with recycling decorations and a title. We placed these boxes in classrooms throughout our school, and teachers had their students put paper in our recycling boxes instead of their classroom trash can. Each Friday during recess time, my students would go and collect the paper from their recycling box. In my own classroom, I had a recycling box for newspapers and aluminum cans (I didn't want to collect glass because it could get broken on the way to school), and students brought in newspapers and cans from home. For all of these types of activities, my students earned stickers on their Think Green sticker charts during March and April.
I finished this unit on April 22, Earth Day. On this day, we had a Think Green Earth Day Party. All of the food items that the students brought in had to be green in color or healthy vegetables. My students were eating cucumber sticks, green pasta with peas and broccoli in it, tossed salad, tabouli, and for dessert I made green jello. We had to use paper plates (no plastic allowed) and students had to bring in their own fork or spoon because we didn't want to throw plastic forks and spoons in the trash. If they brought in food to share with the class, it had to be in plastic containers from home (which they would bring back home), and not in containers that we would have to throw away. Although my students were having a party with primarily healthy food, they had a great time and enjoyed every minute of it. By talking about how we could prepare for our party so that we wouldn't have to throw away any plastic or aluminum foil, it made them think about how they could also do this with other similar events.
This set of recycling and environmental resources includes a creative writing stationary worksheet for students to complete a creative writing assignment on. There is also a black and white copy of this stationary template in this set.
This set of recycling and environmental resources includes a Think Green Sticker Chart. This sticker chart can be cut out along the thick black borders so that you have a uniquely shaped recycling trash can sticker chart. There are 20 boxes for students to earn stickers for performing tasks that are related to recycling or that are helpful to the environment. There is also a black and white copy of this sticker chart template in this set.
This set of recycling and environmental resources includes a Think Green Environmental Award that you can present to your students at the end of this thematic unit or when they complete their sticker charts. There is also a black and white copy of this award in this set.
St. Patrick's Day Poetry Set
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St. Patrick's Day Poetry Set
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This St. Patrick's Day Poetry Set includes:
5 page poetry bulletin board banner
Black and white poetry template
Color poetry template
3. St. Patrick's Day and March Stationary Sets
This St. Patrick's Day teaching resources section contains examples of colorful St. Patrick's Day stationary and matching display banners.
It is often difficult to get students enthusiastic about writing assignments, but I have found that students instantly become more interested in writing activities when the response worksheets are unique and/or colorful. For final draft writing assignments, when I give my students colored worksheets to write on, I have found that they tend to use their best effort and they are more careful to not make careless spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
I have designed my St. Patrick's Day teaching resources stationary and worksheets to have large border trims on them. I cut the white edges off of my students' color stationary, as I think that they look better displayed on the bulletin board this way.
Each of my sets of St. Patrick's Day stationary sets contain the following:
5 page matching banner for your bulletin board display
Black and white worksheet for students to write their first drafts
Color worksheet for your students to write their final drafts
St. Patricks's Day and March Creative Writing Stationary Set
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St. Patrick's Day and March Creative Writing Stationary Set
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This St. Patrick's Day and March Creative Writing Stationary Set includes a 5 page bulletin board display banner and color stationary (shown below), as well as a black and white page of the same stationary to use for your students' first drafts.
Finding a Pot of Gold Creative Writing Stationary Set
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Finding a Pot of Gold Creative Writing Stationary Set
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This Finding a Pot of Gold Creative Writing Stationary Set includes a 5 page bulletin board display banner and color stationary (shown below), as well as a black and white page of the same stationary to use for your students' first drafts.
4. St. Patrick's Day Bulletin Board Sets
This St. Patrick's Day teaching resources section contains examples of sticker chart sets that you can use to motivate and reward your students for any goal that you choose. These sticker chart sets will make a colorful bulletin board display for your classroom during the month of March.
It is helpful to have a calendar posted at the front of your classroom. I like to add each new calendar date at the beginning of each school day. By having a calendar in the front of my classroom, I never have to answer the question, "What is today's date?" and instead I refer my students to the calendar and they learn to look there, instead of asking what the date is. I recommend purchasing a calendar pocket chart to place your calendar set in because they are fast and easy to use and change each month, and you do not damage the calendar pieces by placing staples or thumbtacks on them.
Pot of Gold Sticker Chart Set
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Pot of Gold Sticker Chart Set
(Use this sticker chart set to motivate and reward your students for any goal that you choose.)
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"My Pot of Gold" is a sticker chart set that you can use to motivate and reward your students during the month of March. These St. Patrick's Day teaching resources contain 11 pages of printable resources.
This set of sticker charts does not have a goal (ex. reading 20 books, completing homework), so you can choose the goal to set for your students for this sticker chart set.
This "My Pot of Gold" sticker chart set contains the following components:
two black and white sticker chart templates
two color sticker chart templates
a 5 page bulletin board banner (above)
student award certificate in color and black and white
You can cut out these sticker charts along the thick black lines to have uniquely shaped sticker charts.
Below are the two color sticker chart templates. One set has clover leaves inside the gold coins where you place the students' stickers, and the other one has plain gold coins. There are also black and white versions of each template in this set.
Below: This set includes a matching Golden Achievement Award certificate that you can present to your students when they have completed the goal that you have set for them. A black and white copy of this award certificate is also included in this set.
March St. Patrick's Day Calendar Set
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March St. Patrick's Day Calendar Set St. Patrick's Day Teaching Resources
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The first thing that teachers do each month is change their calendar. Below is my March St. Patrick's Day Calendar Set. The March title is a 2 page banner that should fit in most standardized monthly pocket charts that many teachers use. I have designed large March days of the week that you may find useful. The calendar number dates also fit in pocket charts, and I have included a blank square and a birthday square to use. There are 11 pages of printable resources in this March St. Patrick's Day teaching resources calendar set.
Thank you for visiting my St. Patrick's Day Teaching Resources page. I hope to see you back here at Unique Teaching Resources! Happy St. Patrick's Day! Heidi McDonald
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