Here’s a fun (and free!) parts of speech/writing activity for St. Patrick’s Day. Explain to students that orange, green and white are the colors of the Irish flag. Enjoy!
Click here for the free printable PDF: St Patrick’s Day Word Worm
This page is for helping kids sort words according to part of speech. You could have kids think of holiday words that fit into the various noun, verb and adjective sections or have kids sort words in a list like spelling, vocab, or words from a selected reading passage.
I’m always up for new activities to do with spelling/vocab words. Here’s a new one I’ve come up with for kids to do this year…
1. write each word on its own shamrock
2. lightly color the shamrocks (unless you printed the worksheet on green paper)
3. cut out and glue on to construction paper (also draw a leprechaun, pot of gold, rainbow, etc.) or turn into a necklace, etc… just do something crafty with it.
Click here to download the free printable PDF: Shamrock Spelling
Here’s a free worksheet to help kids practice past tense verbs. Most of the verbs in this worksheet are irregular verbs (e.g. “feel” becomes “felt”), which are especially hard for ESL kids. Enjoy!
Click here for the free printable PDFs: Past Tense Verbs PDF Past Tense Verbs – More!
This fun St. Patrick’s Day writing activity uses the basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) to help kids create a character analysis for a leprechaun. This could easily lead to a story, poem, etc. about the leprechaun.
Click here to download the PDF: Leprechaun Character Analysis
Catching leprechauns is a childhood favorite. Why not write about it!? I love hearing kids’ writing about how you go about catching a leprechaun. Good luck catching those pesky fellows!
Click here for the printable PDF: How To Catch a Leprechaun Writing Activity
Here’s what every kid should know about Veterans’ Day and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This is probably an upper grade worksheet because of the reading level, but it would also be great as a whole class discussion for lower grades. Yay America!
Click here to download the free PDF: Veterans Day Worksheet
Answers:
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Here’s an easy free comprehension worksheet about the history of Columbus Day. Click here for the PDF: Columbus Day worksheet
Here are the answers:
1. October 12, 1492
2. President Benjamin Harrison
3. The United States of America celebrates on the second Monday in October regardless of the date, and other countries celebrate it on October 12.
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