St. Patrick's Day 2015

Time for another holiday celebration!!  We are not Irish, but any excuse to have a fun party day and I will take it.  This is the first year we have done much with St. Patrick's Day.  We had so much fun and we were SOOOO close to catching a Leprechaun!

 We read this book to learn a little about the holiday. There was so much I didn't know about St. Patrick. Interesting how the holiday has been turned into such a big party day from the original meaning of the holiday. 

The boys made a leprechaun trap the day before.  Britton was very nervous about what would happen if we did catch a leprechaun.  He said he was just going to stay upstairs if we caught that "little guy". 

 Looks like we might have caught something...

 The leprechaun left lucky pennies and shamrock stickers.

 He also left a bowl of gold (Chocolate coins) , rainbows (skittles) & clouds  (marshmallows)

 The boys just woke up and ready to see what they caught

 What is it?

The Leprechaun tricked us!

 Britton did some St. Patrick's Day graphing

The boys each wrote what they would wish for if we caught a leprechaun. 

For Tea on Tuesday we read a book about Ireland.  Then we read a St. Patrick's Day Limerick and learned how to write them.  We also had a green theme snack, Shamrock shakes and mint brownies.

Here are the Limericks the boys wrote:

The Gnarly Leprechaun
There once was a leprechaun called Marley
He liked to ride his Harley
So he rode all day
And he liked to play
That Leprechaun was pretty gnarly!
                                          Greyson Roth

The Strange Wizard
I once met a wizard from Mars
He liked to watch the stars
But whenever he sneezed
He fell to his knees
That strange wizard from Mars.
                                            Lincoln Roth

 We had a green and rainbow themed lunch. Rainbow salad & goldfish and the rest was green.

And and Irish dinner: Potato Soup and Sausage Rolls

We had a great time celebrating St. Patrick's Day.  How did you celebrate?