March Morning Work Materials

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March Morning Work

Materials Used In Activities

I always encourage teachers to use what they have or use what’s cheap. However, there are always teachers who would like to locate specific items that I may have used in activities. So I created a list below to help. Just click on any highlighted text to see where I secured various items.

1.Pot of Gold Sight Word Links.

  • Editable Sight Word Cards-(Activity #1)
  • Gold Coin Letter Cards –Included in this packet
  • Plastic Clips or Clothespins

2.  Somewhere Over The Rainbow CVC Self-Correcting Cards.

3.  Linking Lucky Numbers and Quantities.

4.  Rainbow Sand Tray Sight Words.

  • Rainbow Sight Word Cards (available in this set)
  • Small cake pan or cookie sheet painted with Acrylic Paint in rainbow colors
  • Thematic St. Patrick’s Pencil
  • Salt

5.  Fill Your Pot Counting Math Mats.

  • Laminated number mats printed on cardstock for durability
  • Dough for making number and pieces of ‘gold’ to fill your pot ‘box.’  Gold can be yellow pompoms, play-doh or gold coins.

6.  Luck of the Irish Ten Frame Mats.

  • Laminated number mats
  • Dough for making a number (and representing a quantity in a ten frame)
  • Optional: manipulatives for showing the quantity

7.  Luck of the Irish How Many More To Make Ten.

  • Dough Laminated number mats on cardstock for durability
  • Dough
  • Dry erase markers
  • Mr. Clean Magic Erasers for erasing (optional)
  • Manipulatives (Optional if you wish to use something other than dough: pompoms, buttons or seasonal manipulatives.)

8.  St. Pat’s Dough Pictures.

  • Playdoh or homemade dough in various colors
  • Plastic dough extruders
  • Child size scissors
  • Rainbow Dough Mat and Dress a Leprechaun Mat

9.  Making St. Patrick’s Day Items With Dough

  • Various colors of dough
  • St. Patrick’s Day item cards laminated for durability

10. Lucky Q-tip pictures.

11.  Colors of the Rainbow Therapy Putty Sort.

12.Colors of the Rainbow Sort and Graph.

13. Colors of the Rainbow Sort Find, Sort, Graph, And Count.

Please note:  I also added a Hidden Shamrock version of the above stations.  With these stations, I found a plastic St. Patrick’s Day necklace and cut the beads off.  I hid the different sized shamrocks and balls in my therapy putty.  It’s just another option for you to consider.  Enjoy!

14.  Race To Fill Your Hat.

  • 1 dice (use different types of dice to differentiate this activity)
  • Shamrocks, plastic coins, imitation gold pieces, green pompoms, or green mini ping pong
  • 2 Tongs
  • Leprechaun hat (you can find them at the Dollar Tree) or thematic buckets

15.  Fill Your Pot (0-10).

  • Fill Your Pot self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated, and secured with a clothespin.
  • Fill Your Pot playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student. You could also use a small plastic mini pot.)
  • Tongs
  • Plastic gold or gold coins (or you could use yellow pompoms or flat glass marbles, buttons or beads)

16.  Fill Your Pot With One More.

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student or you could use a mini, plastic pot.)
  • Tongs
  • Plastic Gold Coins (or you could use yellow pompoms or flat glass marbles)
  • Dry erase marker

17.  Empty Your Pot With One Less.

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student or you could use a mini, plastic pot.)
  • Tongs
  • Plastic Gold Coins (or you could use yellow pompoms or flat glass marbles)
  • Dry erase marker

18.  Lucky Spin To Win.

19. Counting On Shamrocks.

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Plastic shamrocks (or you could use green pompoms or flat green glass marbles)
  • Dry erase marker

20. Counting Back Shamrocks.

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Plastic shamrocks (or you could use green pompoms or flat green glass marbles)
  • Dry erase marker

21.Lucky Number Bonds.

  • Self-correcting missing addend cards
  • Lucky Number Bonds playing mats (one for each player)
  • Tongs
  • Gold pieces (use plastic gold nuggets, coins, yellow pompoms, buttons or gold flat glass marbles

22.  Lucky Sticker Count.

  • Sticker recording sheet printed on paper. One for each child. (There are two to choose from.)
  • One sheet allows students to trace and total up all the stickers used.
  • One sheet allows you to place a specific sticker next to a box. Students use those three types to outline the template and then count up the individual stickers of each type and record the number next to the sticker in the box.
  • Small thematic stickers or any small stickers you can find or you can use colored sticker dots.

23.  Lucky Addition.

  • Shamrock paper punches
  • Glue sticks
  • Lucky Heart Addition booklet (included in this packet)
  • There are equations from 0-5 and others from 5-10. Select and print off the pages you wish to include, staple and cut in half.
  • If you can’t get shamrock paper punches you can always use stamps.

24.  Gel Bead Sort By Color.

25.  Gel Bead Roll and Win.

26.  Lucky Lego Challenge.

27.  St. Patrick’s Day Straws Cut and Thread Necklaces.

28.  Lucky Constructing Letters And Words.

29.    Rainbow Containers Count and Record.

  • Small Dollar mini white Surerite containers with rainbows painted on the lid. (Or you can use those mini plastic pots, but I like the lids because they have a top and the pots do not.
  • Paint pens to make a rainbow (if necessary)
  • Small rainbow erasers, buttons, beads, pompoms, Skittles or I painted flat white marbles with rainbows.
  • Recording mat printed on cardstock and laminated

30.  Pot of Gold Add and Record.

  • Small-dollar store container (Or you can use those mini plastic pots, but I like the lids because they have a top and the pots do not.)
  • Paint Pens or Sharpie to make a pot if necessary
  • Plastic green and gold-colored coins (or you could use buttons, pompoms or beads of the same color.
  • Recording sheet printed on cardstock and laminated.

31.  Leprechaun’s Gold Capital/Lowercase Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with fun thematic filler
  • Capital/Lowercase Letter puzzles printed on one color of cardstock, laminated and cut apart.

32  Leprechaun’s Gold Letter Sounds Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with fun thematic filler
  • Lowercase/Beginning Letter Sounds puzzles printed on one color of cardstock, laminated and cut apart.

33. Leprechaun’s Gold CVC Word Puzzles.

  • Small sensory bin with thematic filler
  • CVC/Picture puzzle pieces printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.

34.  Leprechaun’s Gold Blend Puzzles.

  • Small sensory bin with thematic filler
  • Blend/Picture puzzles pieces printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.

35.  Colors of the Rainbow Patterns

  • Skittles candy (or pompoms, buttons or beads in rainbow colors.  (You can also use small flat glass white beads and use paint pens to paint the colors on them.)
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated
  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and folded to hide the answer.
  • Clothespins (fun thematic foamy or item hot glued to clothespin optional)
  • Tongs or tweezers for moving items

36.  Lucky Letter Match Up

  • Flat green glass marbles programmed with letters of your choice using paint pens
  • One editable playing mat per student at the station with your selected letters (Included in this set.)
  • Tongs
  • Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)

37.  Lucky Sight Word Match Up:

  • Flat green glass marbles that are programmed with sight words of your choice. (You can get them at the Dollar Tree)
  • One editable playing mat per student at the station with your selected sight words. (Included in this set.)
  • Tongs
  • Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)

38. Unlock your Luck Math.

  • Small sensory box
  • Thematic items including poly beads, shamrocks, horseshoes and gold coins.
  • Fun thematic tongs or chopsticks
  • Several differently keyed lock and key sets. I bought mine individually from discount and dollar stores. Do not buy a ‘lot’ of keys as they will be keyed all the same way.  You can also ask parents to donate any old, unused locks and keys.  It’s a great way to assure they aren’t all keyed the same way.
  • Key fobs/tags with labeling capability.

39.  Collecting Lucky Clovers.

  • Small Basket with holes on the sides.  I got mine at the Dollar Tree.
  • Yarn or pipe cleaners to make a web.
  • Small white ping pong balls or white flat marbles
  • Paint clovers on one side and letters (or words) on the other.
  • On one paint two shamrocks
  • On one, paint just one shamrock and not words.