If you have not been able to tell so far, I LOVE teaching with themes. This St. Patrick’s Day Blend Match-Up will be the perfect addition to your literacy centers. Your students will be having so much fun that they will not even know that they are learning.18
St. Patrick’s Day Blend Match-Up covers twenty different blends (l blends, r blends, and s blends). There are three pieces for each blend: one has a pot of gold that contains the blend and then the other two are coins that have a picture on it that starts with the corresponding blend.
Getting St. Patrick’s Day Blend Match-Up Ready
Print the match-ups, laminate and cut using a paper trimmer. Gather all of the pieces and place in a plastic container. I love using plastic pencil cases to store centers like these. It keeps everything in one place and does not take up a ton of space.
This obviously doesn’t take a ton of time to put together and makes a wonderful activity to help your kids have fun and learn at the same time.
Doing St. Patrick’s Day Blend Match-Up
Students will start the activity by choosing a pot of gold blend card.
They will then sort through all of the picture cards looking for the pictures that start with that blend.
Each pot of gold card has two picture cards. Once the pot of gold has has two cards, they can move on to a new blend and start again.
Another way this could be completed, is to have all of the pot of fold cards laid out on a table or even the floor. Students will then sort the remaining puzzles pieces according to their blend.
If you have younger (or struggling) students that would be overwhelmed by the number of puzzle pieces in this activity, scale it back. Provide them with only a handful of blends. Once they master those, you can slowly add in more.
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I hope that you and your students enjoy St. Patrick’s Day Blend Match-Up to use in your classroom this year! Are you looking for more St. Patrick’s Day ideas, activities, and printables to do at home or in the classroom? If so don’t miss out on all of our St. Patrick’s Day Lessons!
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You will press “get my printable” and then you will be taken to the freebie. If that doesn’t work, I would try a different browser. Please let me know if that doesn’t work.