St. Patrick's Day

I thought it would be hard to "catch" a leprechaun when we had already tried so hard to catch him last year, but I was wrong!    The kids wrote all about how to catch a leprechaun then built traps in groups to set out.  Alas, no leprechaun was caught, but he did leave us a rainbow cake to snack on. 

Monday morning everyone was checking out their traps to see if they had caught one.  We of course only got his pants and hats.

After snacking on some fruit, we got to keep the leprechaun hats that the fruit came in.  We then got mathematical. Not only did we sort the marshmallows in a Lucky Charm box.... we counted ALL of the oat pieces.  Over 3,000 in all!

The next day we used SKYPE to talk to a first grade in Alabama to compare their box of cereal to ours.