| Language |
1.
Encourage your students to write General Mills with the
results from this project or with any questions they might
have.
General Mills, Inc.
P.O. Box 9452
Minneapolis, MN 55440 |
2.
RAINBOW WRITE
Rather than having kids write their words 3-5 times each
every week, allow them to pick 3-5 colors and "rainbow
write" their words |
| 3.
Cut shapes (like the Lucky Charm shapes) and have your
students make a story book about their experience with
this project. |
| 4.
Have your students write a paragraph on what shape would
they like to add to the Lucky Charms cereal and why. |
| 5.
Write a poem, a haiku, a limerick, or acrostic verse about
Lucky Charms. |
| 6.
Make up a story about the day in the life of a Lucky Charms! |
| 7.
Take the words General Mills Lucky Charms Cereal and create
as many words as you can. |
| 8.Visit
the General
Mills Cereal Box website and scroll down to Lucky
Charms. Pick 2 of the old boxes and have your students
find 3 things that are the same and 3 things that are
different. |
| 9.
Marci McGowan has created a very usable Readers's
Theatre which can be adapted to use in all classrooms. |
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| Math |
| 1.
Have your students form patterns using the Lucky Charms.
|
| 2.
Write math word problems on the board for your students
to solve. Example: 3 Green Clovers + 3 Blue Moons = Total
Lucky Charms. |
| 3.
Using a ruler -- put your Lucky Charms on that line to
figure out how many LC it takes to make 1 foot. Encourage
your students to use different measurements and then chart
down their data. FOR FUN -- have your students pick items
around the room and use LC to measure their length.
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| 4.
Have your students count out Lucky Charms in 2's, 5's,
10's, etc. |
| 5.
Cut out several LARGE shapes of various colors -- (triangle,
circle, squares, trapezoids, etc) and have your student's
trace the edges with Lucky Charms. Have them chart down
their counts. |
| 6.
Assign currency value to each Lucky Charm (heart = 1cent,
moon = 5cent, etc) Assign prices to certain items in your
class and have your students figure out how many Lucky
Charms they would need to purchase that item. |
| 7.
Purchase the book "Cereal Math". Boost kids'
math skills with these irresistible, hands-on activities
using cereal! Students will create a cereal abacus, estimate
how many raisins are in "two scoops", use Venn
diagrams to sort and classify cereal by attributes, collect
and graph data, explore patterns, and more! $8.76
at Amazon.com. Gr. K - 2 |
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| St.
Patrick's Day |
| 1.
Visit Billy
The Bear's Website about St. Patrick |
| 2.
Grab some St. Patrick's Day Clipart by visiting Awesome
Clipart! |
| 3.
Kid's
Domain has good information on the Blarney Stone,
Leprechaun's, Shamrocks, and St. Patrick!!! |
| 4.
BONUS.COM
has 7 St. Patrick Games for your students to try. (best
used with 2nd and 3rd graders) |
5.
Green Shaving Cream Art
Add a few drops of green paint to shaving cream. Have
the children use this to paint with. (To clean quickly
-- add soap to paint FIRST!). |
6.
Rain and Rainbow Collage
Look in a magazine or newspaper for pictures of rain,
or rainbows, cut them out, and let your child glue them
onto a piece of paper for a collage. |
7.
Shamrock Rubbings
Cut shamrock shapes from paper doilies or sandpaper. Tape
these shamrocks to the table. Have the children place
a piece of thin white paper over the shamrocks and rub
a crayon over the shamrock. |
8.
Shamrock Hop
Place shamrock shapes on the floor. Have the children
hop from one shamrock to the next. |
9.
Treasure Hunt
Draw a simple map of your class/school. Cut out large
shapes of Lucky Charms. Hide each shape somewhere in your
classroom/school. Explain the map to your child. Draw
X's on the map where you have hidden the shapes. Let your
students find the shapes by using the map.. |
10.Leprechaun
mischief
While the children are out playing or before they arrive
make some silly changes in the room like putting things
out of place, hiding things, leaving gold chocolate coins,
etc. Leave green footprints Blame it on the leprechaun
when they come in. Explain all about St. Patrick's day
and leprechauns. (found
at ChildFun website) |
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| Technology |
| 1.
Download the data from the Results Page into Excel and
create graphs of the project. If you don't have EXCEL,
you can print out the data and use an online graphing
program called Create
A Graph! |
| 2.
Using the downloaded data, teach your students how to
sort data and create graphs based on state participation. |
| 3.
Using Inspiration/Kidspiration, create a color visual
learning experience. Free 30 day trial available here
-- INSPIRATION
KIDSPIRATION |
| 4.
Create PowerPoint/Hyperstudio presentation (including
pictures) of your Lucky Charm Project!! |
| 5.
Using a digital or regular camera -- make a collage of
your Lucky Charm Day! Scan your pictures and print them
out on T-Shirt transfer paper as an added memory for your
kids!! |
| 6.
Create a webpage of your Lucky Charm Day! Send me the
link and we will list it on this website!! |
| 7.
Using Paint, Kid Pix, or any other graphics program, create
a Lucky Charm Picture. |
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