Sunday Scrambling: St. Patrick’s Day Activities and a FREEBIE!

Mmmmm…..I used to love getting a Shamrock shake from McDonalds.  This I’m going to try making “Shamrock shakes” with some of my older clients.  I love Kale shakes and think that I can probably convince some of my clients that the kale leaves are from Shamrocks.  We will work on sequencing, vocabulary and verb tense forms.  Plus it’s a great way for me to use that extra blender my husband thought I wanted one year.

2.  Rainbow Gold Toss:  
I used a similar game with plastic spiders and a spider web rug this fall.  I love quick and easy games that are also motivating.  I picked up the rug at Target’s dollar spot and borrowed the gold from my son’s secret stash of gold things.  (gold coins, fools gold from colorado, gold pirate earring and some costume jewelry he pilfered from my room all stored in a pirate box-I kind of love that he’s already categorizing things.)

I’ll let them come up with their own rules OR we will just try to throw the gold into the bucket of the rug.

3.  St. Patrick’s Day Conversations and the Blarney Stone:
I’m going to try to find a rock to paint green from under the massive amounts of snow in our yard.  It’s finally starting to thaw out.  It’s been SO cold that we actually found a giant icicle in my attic this week.  I hadn’t heard the legend of the Blarney Stone before.  Apparently whoever kisses it with be gifted with eloquence and persuasiveness.  Pretty much my whole caseload could benefit from that-including me!  Not sure that I will be able to motivate any middle schoolers to kiss it but maybe we can change it to whoever holds it in the speech room is given the gift of gab.