Grouchy Leprechaun: Idea #166

It's so fun to put holidays into your teaching. St. Patrick's Day has a lot of fun aspects to it: clovers, green, luck, pot of gold, and my personal favorite: leprechauns. Leprechauns are supposed to be so grouchy. I loved watching my students draw an angry leprechaun's face for St. Patrick's Day. Here is how you can make it into a reading practice activity:

1. Print off a picture of a leprechaun that does not have a face.

I found this worksheet here.

2. Get out your sight word flash cards, or any special words that your student needs practice with.

3. Show student a card, if your student can read the word on the card, your student can draw one thing on the leprechaun's face (a mouth, an eye, an eyebrow, etc).

4. By the time your student has read about ten words, the leprechaun's face will be almost finished. Let your student be as detailed as they wish. 

5. When the leprechaun's face is completely drawn, you can continue showing your student flash cards and allow them to color in one thing on the leprechaun's face each time they read a card. If you don't have the time, just let your student color the entire leprechaun face.

I hope this gets you excited for St. Patrick's Day!