No Prep Activities For Big Kids

St. Patrick’s Day

No Prep Activities for Big Kids
This pack contains simple to implement, standards based activities for St. Patrick’s Day. In the past, I rarely did anything special for St.
Patrick’s Day, but when I saw how excited our younger students were for all things green, I felt bad that my third graders were missing
out on the fun! I wanted to create fun, St. Patrick’s Day activities with an academic focus, so I got to work. I’m pretty excited about the
final result, and I hope your students will enjoy these eight printables too.

Reading
• Pg. 3-St. Patrick’s Day Reading Comprehension
• Pg. 4-Rainbow Prefixes and Suffixes
Writing
• Pg. 5-Spin a Story
Grammar
• Pg. 6-St. Patrick’s Day Categories
Math
• Pg. 7-Leprechaun Village (area and perimeter)
• Pg. 8-Spin a Word Problem (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)
• Pg. 9-Spin a Word Problem (addition and subtraction)
Social Studies
• Pg. 10-Cardinal Directions
Science
• Pg. 11-12-Rainbow Experiment
Google Slides Version
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MvL2dWc_jDRqHDGX8hH0aE2ZBQzULOJuCbtiXoSv96s/copy
 Name ______________________

A New Friend Use text evidence to answer the following questions.

Sparky cautiously looked around the tree trunk. His heart
1. Why do you think Sparky’s heart was pounding and his
was pounding and his palms were sweating. He knew he wasn’t
palms were sweating at the beginning of the
supposed to be this far from his home, and his mother had
story?__________________________________________________
warned him a multitude of times about the dangers that
lurked outside his home underneath the old oak tree in Hidden _____
Lakes Forest. When he heard what must have been children’s _______________________________________________________
voices outside his bedroom, he couldn’t resist the temptation
to see real humans for the first time in his young life. Sparky
followed them to see who these children were and what 2. Where did Sparky live? _____________________________
they were doing in the forest. _______________________________________________________

He had been watching the boy and girl for some time and
was amazed to see how tall the children were. His neck was
3. Who did Sparky see in the woods? __________________
starting to ache from looking up for such a long time. Sparky
_______________________________________________________
imagined that he was only knee-high to the children. He
desperately wanted to slip out from his hiding spot so that
he could meet the two children. He could tell from their
smiling faces that the children were kind and happy young 4. Why didn’t Sparky meet the children? ______________
people that would make great friends. _______________________________________________________

Feeling sad, he slowly started to retreat and head back

home. He knew that if the boy and girl saw him, his family’s 5. Why was Sparky willing to become friends with the
secret would be out. Sparky realized that if humans found dog rather than the children? _________________________
out about his leprechaun family people would not stop _______________________________________________________
searching for them for many, many years. All of a sudden
Sparky heard a shrill “Yip, yip” coming from a furry, four
legged animal. “This must be a dog!” He exclaimed. The dog 6. Give a definition or example of the words below.
cautiously multitude
licked him, and Sparky started laughing. They ran and played
together until they were both panting from exhaustion.
Sparky was so happy to have made a new friend,
especially one who would definitely be able to keep his resist exhaustion
secret!
 Name _______________________________

Rainbow Prefixes and Suffixes

Using the prefix or suffix on the clouds, write four words on each rainbow.

un- re-

dis-

-ment -
ness
-ful
 Spin a Story
Write a St. Patrick’s Day story with Lucky the
Leprechaun as the main character! Use the
____________________________________________________________
spinners to determine his character traits and
the setting of your story. Shade the sections ____________________________________________________________
your spinner lands on.
____________________________________________________________
Character Trait ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Bashful Grouchy ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Curious Cheerful ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Mysterious ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Setting ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Forest Your ____________________________________________________________
Floor School
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Large Lucky’s
____________________________________________________________
City House
____________________________________________________________
Mountain
Top
 St. Patrick’s Day Categories
Directions: Think of words that begin with the letters on the left side of the grid that fit with
the parts of speech on the top of the grid. For example, a verb that begins with the letter G
could be ‘grasp’. Try to find two or three answers for each box.

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB

girl

G
offer

O
lazy

L
dangerously

D
Leprechaun Village Guide Name ________________________________

q Green House-perimeter of 12 Leprechaun Village

units
Using the Leprechaun Village Guide, design a village for a community of
q Shamrock Market-area of 14 sq. leprechauns. Be sure to pay careful attention to the perimeter and/or area
units of each of the buildings in your town. You may add your own details and
decorations after you add the buildings. Be sure to label each building.
q Golden Gate Park-area of 10 sq.
units

q Lucky’s Bakery-perimeter of 10
units

q Mitzy’s Restaurant-perimeter
of 8 units

q Rainbow Flower Shop-area of 9

square units

q Leprechaun Police Station-area

of 15 sq. units

q Leprechaun Fire Station-

perimeter of 16 units

Add Two More Items

q _______________________________
A-_________________________________
P-_________________________________

q ________________________________
A-_________________________________
P-_________________________________
 Operation

+-
Spin a Word Problem
Write and solve two St. Patrick’s Day word problems with Lucky the Leprechaun!
Use the spinners to determine the operation and setting of your word problem.
(Shade the section your spinner lands on.) You must also include the number you

÷x
spun somewhere within, or as the answer of your word problem.

Number

12 36
24 18
48
Setting

Forest Your
Floor School

New York Lucky’s

City House

Mountain
Top
 Operation

+-
Spin a Word Problem
Write two St. Patrick’s Day word problems with Lucky the Leprechaun! Use
the spinners to determine the operation and setting of your word problem.

-+
(Shade the section your spinner lands on.) You must also include the number
you spun somewhere within, or as the answer of your word problem.

Number

12 36
24 18
48
Setting

Forest Your
Floor School

New York Lucky’s

City House

Mountain
Top
 Name ________________________

Cardinal Directions
1. Which direction would you walk to go from the
clover to the rainbow?
_______________________________________

2. Which direction would you walk to go from the

girl to the pot of gold?
_______________________________________

3. Which direction would you walk to go from the

polka dot hat to the plain hat?
_______________________________________

4. Which direction would you walk to go from the

boy to the horseshoe?
_______________________________________

5. Which direction would you walk to go from the

clover to the horseshoe?
_______________________________________

6. What is northwest of the pot of gold?

______________________________
 Rainbow Experiment
Materials
• Clear tube or cylinder • Vegetable Oil
• Droppers • Water
• Food coloring • Rubbing Alcohol
• Four cups • Corn Syrup (light)

Purpose
• The purpose of this experiment is to see if all liquids have the same density.

Directions
• Use food coloring to color each liquid (except the vegetable oil).
• Slowly and carefully pour an inch of the corn syrup into the cylinder.
• Use a dropper to add an inch of water on top of the corn syrup.
• Next, use a dropper to add an inch of vegetable oil on top of the water.
• Finish it off with an inch of colored rubbing alcohol.

Notes
• Each of the liquids had a different density. They were added to the cylinder in order of most
dense to least dense. Since each new liquid was less dense than the one before it, it floated on
top instead of mixing together.
 Rainbow Experiment
Write a question that explains the purpose of this experiment. What are we trying to discover?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What type of liquid do you think has the least density? Write your hypothesis.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What materials do you need for this experiment?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What are the procedures for this experiment?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Picture of Results What was the result of the experiment?

Was your hypothesis correct?

_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
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