Luck of the Irish!

Holidays are seriously TEN TIMES more fun when celebrated in elementary school! 

Although St. Patrick's Day is on Saturday, we celebrated it today, learning some things about Ireland, limericks, and other poems about leprechauns/Irish things.  Their favorite were the math centers, one of which being Graphing Skittles (the colors) and doing math problems with the amount of each color.  

And then Lucky the Leprechaun paid a visit:

(aka Mrs. P and I came and rummaged through/destroyed our classroom while the kids were at Art)

 

Please note- boy on the right with hands on his head like "Is this really happening?"  

The best part was:  THEY TOTALLY BOUGHT IT.  Lucky the Leprechaun REALLY visited our classroom.  The kids immediately started searching for him and coming up with traps to catch him. Haha! 

 (And of course they quickly had the disaster cleaned up in like 10 minutes because they are the most OCD 6 year olds I've ever met).  

After/while seeing the FURIOSITY in these little people were over what Lucky did, I decided they should take their anger out on paper by writing him a letter about how they felt when they walked in the classroom and saw it or what they thought of what he did.  The second I finished explaining this, kids were running up to me, grabbing paper, running to their desks, and writing like CRAZY!  I've never seen them so passionate about anything haha...so worth it !

Results:

Boy #1: Dear Lucky, Why are you so mean? Why don't you be nice if you don't no presents from Christmas.

Boy #2: Dear Lucky, You are a bad leprechaun. You're very bad.  Give me your gloud (gold). 

Boy #3: Dear Leprechaun Lucky, Please tell us where you are and where you are hiding. We need to find you Lucky! Or give us cloos (clues) to find you.  

I'm telling you, they totally fell for it. 

Girl #1: Dear Leprechaun, You will get pau bake (pay back) for this! You meany leprechaun poop. 

Girl #2: Dear Lucky, Please do not mess up our class room.  Pleas pretey pleas. Could I see you I would like some gold!!!

Girl #3: Dear Lucky, It was not funny. Maybe it was fun and funny to you.  But it was not fun to me.

Once again, another fulfilling day in 1st grade.  3 weeks down, 3 weeks to go!

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Random

This is for update purposes only...mostly.   This is where someone tells me to write everything that comes to my mind for the next two minutes:
Watched "The Sing Off" last night - so sad to see Vocal Point go home and I promise I won't be watching again to see who won...none of the others are good enough to keep my/our interest.
Yesterday was a beautiful day in Provo, 55 degrees and sunny with a cool breeze AND there are still SO many leaves on the trees, I had a stressful day at school but nothing mattered thanks to that.
Still watching Planet Earth for my science class - breathtaking and makes me want to explore. However, I'm kind of scared of the ocean now.

Dreaded coming to school today. Substitute = I teach all day. Good news: It turned out great and I pretended to give my kids a tour of Alaska to show them how to add detail to their state reports. Thank goodness I had an awesome substitute who helped me a ton.  NO thanks to money for being so confusing to my students (or maybe it's me, or the substitute, or my teacher...no, I think it's the half-dollar. Who uses half-dollars?)
I'm getting observed tomorrow - what time? During math. awesome.

Went to opening game of BYU Basketball season tonight (which will be the only basketball we watch for a little while, no thanks to selfish NBA players) - Brandon Davies rocked the house. But we miss Jimmer.
I come home almost every day to Devin watching youtube videos of nutnfancy, a gun expert from Utah. He's so excited for Thanksgiving when he can go shooting whenever he wants with all his gun shooting uncles and brother and dad (oh and me, ha)

Thanksgiving. We leave in ONE WEEK.



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