Luck 'O The Irish!

Saint Joan of Arc was all Irish during March. First graders enjoyed reading many books about leprechauns throughout the month. The students were also challenged to build creative leprechaun traps in order to "snatch up" one of the leprechauns that visited our classroom. It was so exciting to see how creative the kids got with these traps, and how much they enjoyed the project. Many of the traps had green colors, rainbows, pots of gold, Lucky Charms, candy, etc. GREAT JOB FIRST GRADERS! I think we have some future engineers in our class. In the end, we weren't able to catch any of these sneaky creatures, but we sure had fun trying. And boy, did they get ahold of our classroom and destroy it. We had green paint and footprints EVERYWHERE, green glitter, chairs and desks overturned, pencil containers spilt, etc. As a class, we are determined to catch these little fellas' next year! :)

During March, we also incorporated some green cooking as part of our measuring unit in math. The students enjoyed making shamrock jello jigglers and leprechaun pie. A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped with the cooking and providing materials.

Finally, on St. Patrick's Day Saint Joan of Arc was fortunate enough to send their Kindergarten, First, and Second grades downtown to march in the parade. The students did a FABULOUS job marching, smiling, chanting, waving, and representing the best school in the city-St. Joan of Arc. I am sure the chant, "SJA, ALL THE WAY!" was stuck in the students' heads for days! A big thank you to all of our parent volunteers who came along to make the day so successful.

Click below to watch a slideshow of highlights from the day!