The children are celebrating Saint Patrick's Day (March, the 17th) with a decorated ribbon they wear on their heads and a special present for other classrooms!
We have moved on to sentence dictation. The teacher shows three sentences to the children in the board. They read them all together. Then, the teacher read out one of them and they have to copy exactly the same sentence.
It's a slow process, but it's working!
Finally, they can play the last few minutes of the classroom copying english words from the books: