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. 10. Journal Ideas: If I found a pot of gold, I would... What does it mean to be lucky? What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you? top Math 1. Have your students form patterns using the Lucky Charms. 2. Write math word problems on the board for your student's to solve. Example: 3 Green Clovers + 3 Blue Moons = Total Lucky Charms. (great manipulative for PreK and K) 3. Using a ruler -- have 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. 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! $6.50 at Amazon.com. Gr. K - 2 8. In your math center, put out a jar filled with pennies or candy coins to resemble gold coins. Estimate how many coins are in the "pot of gold." Place the pot at the end of a large laminated rainbow. If you laminate the rainbow, the estimates can be written on the rainbow using a wipe-off pen. Group the pennies or candy coins by tens, and count to check your estimates. (idea found here) 9. Rainbow Spinnger: Create a spinner with 7 seven areas. Label each area a color Give students a blank rainbow sheet. Each time the kids spin the spinner They color in the rainbow. (idea found here) top St. Patrick's Day 1. Visit Billy The Bear's Website about St. Patrick 2. Kid's Domain has good information on the Blarney Stone, Leprechaun's, Shamrocks, and St. Patrick!!! 3. Primary Games has 8 St. Patrick Games for your students to try. (best used with 2nd and 3rd graders) 4. 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!). 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. Shamrock Hop Place shamrock shapes on the floor. Have the children hop from one shamrock to the next. 8. 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.. 9.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) top Computer Skills 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!! Or upload them to an online photo album (such as Bubbleshare) 6. Create an online journal of your Lucky Charm Day! Send me the link and we will list it on this website!! (such as BlogMeister or PBWiki.) 7. Using Paint, Kid Pix, or any other graphics program, create a Lucky Charm Picture. 8. Take pictures and upload them to Voice Thread. Have your students record their reflections of the day. 10. Check out the 30 day trial of Pixie 2 and have your students draw a picture of their day! top