My Learning Jungle!: St. Patrick's Day

So I decided to go all out for St. Patrick's Day and teach my kids all about leprechauns and shamrocks, and how if you follow the rainbow you might just strike gold. They LOVED it!! They couldn't believe that rainbows could hold so much magic. Now I'm not allowed having any religious connections when teaching about St. Patrick's Day so I couldn't fully explain what the day was really about so instead we focused on those magical aspects. I sent home many letters informing parents to have their kids wear green on March 17, and I repeatedly enforced this into my students as well by annoying them with the same questions multiple times a day... "What colour do we wear on St. Patrick's Day?" (students chant green) "What day is that on?" (students chant March 17)! Well the day arrived and I could not have been more proud! They all wore green!! (except for one new student who didn't know what was going on as she just arrived that day). One of my students was so adament about wearing green that he went home the night before and kept telling his mom "I have to wear green tomorrow, don't forget" then when he woke up the first thing he said was "I have to wear green tomorrow" not realizing today was tomorrow! I guess its true, there really is such a thing as the luck of the Irish!!