We had an extremely busy day! We had our daily writing lesson and made it through to the end without any interruptions from mysterious gift-givers! We created rainbows and talked about the legend of the leprechaun and how he hides his gold at the end of a rainbow and should you catch one, he has to take you to his pot of gold. I told them about Roy G. Biv, the order of the color of the rainbow....red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Unfortunately, I turned the colors around and started with red on the inside cure instead of the outside and after a quick correction from Will and Anna, I fixed my mistake and the kids made some pretty rainbows!
This is McDuff, the main character of a series of books I've read to the kids. In the story, Fred and Lucy, his owners, treat him with vanilla rice pudding. I love rice pudding and think the one I make is particularly delicious!
I made 2 big pans of it to share this morning. You can tell by the expressions who liked it and who didn't!
While we were eating the rice pudding, we heard a knock on the door and once again, no one could be found, but there was a package at the door! Once again, we opened the gift bag and found another leprechaun wind sock and a shamrock wreath:
and bandannas for Murphy (who is thrilled!!) and Tommy:
After the excitement died down a bit, a very tiny bit, we went to lunch, recess, then back outside where we took our binoculars, science journals, and a pencil. We'd made the binoculars yesterday out of toilet rolls. The kids were amazed at how much more and better they could see through them!!!
While outside, the objective was to observe 3 things and draw them in the journal, complete with circles around the items.....drawn as they'd be seen through the binoculars. We walked around the playground, making observations and looking for leprechaun clues. The outdoor observation was my assignment and the leprechaun clues were the kids' assignment!
It was a busy, busy, busy day and one full of mystery!!!
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