Our rainbow was hanging from the ceiling. Chairs were all wrong.
Those tricky leprechauns came and played a lot of tricks on us this past week but they saved their best tricks for last! This is what the room looked like when we arrived after the weekend!
They left us a message on the white board.
I think they scared our stuffed dinosaur who was hanging or hiding from our flag.
They left a message for Maggie inside her trap too!
The students thought we might have captured one or more of the leprechauns because Avery’s catcher was sealed shut. The children all breathlessly peaked inside to see what they had caught.
Cautiously checking inside Avery’s catcher!
There were NO LEPRECHAUNS inside! But these two looked as if THEY were leprechauns!
C8’s resident leprechauns….Katie and Gabe!
Although the students didn’t catch a leprechaun this time, they did get a special Lucky Charms breakfast treat from Mrs. Riordan. They also got to sample some wonderful homemade Irish soda bread made by Maggie’s grandmother and delivered by Maggie’s mom! It was so yummy again this year. And this year, many more children were brave and tried the Irish bread with raisins. I couldn’t take a photo because it was gobbled up so fast!
Lucky teacher, Lucky children, Green tongues!
We did a special writing project today where the children wrote about someone who was worth more than gold to them. It was interesting to read the wide variety of responses which ranged from parents and grandparents, siblings and cousins, to their dog and Tuukka Rask!
St. Patrick’s Day Writing
We did some St. Patrick’s themed worksheets and read stories from Ireland by my favorite Irish writer, Eve Bunting. Then we practiced our reading comprehension by reading an article about St. Patrick and looking for key information in the article to answer the questions. At the end of the day, we were surprise to find that the leprechauns left a gift for us in the office. A pot of gold….candy! Those tricky leprechauns also hid all the items they had stolen from our traps underneath the candy.
All in all, it was a pretty magical day in C-8!
Yummy Gold!
If you would like to see all of the students’ awesome leprechaun catchers, you can see them on the student work page of this blog! Check them out!
Lowell Sun Reporter John Collins visits second grade.
On another note, I forgot to post a couple photos from last week. We had a visit with the Lowell Sun Local News reporter, John Collins. The children went to Mrs. Porcello’s classroom and got to learn what it like to be a newspaper reporter. The children asked great questions and learned a lot.
Second graders make a body clock!
One last photo of our students learning kinesthetically how to tell time….or in other words, with their bodies. Some children were the numbers on the clock and two students were the hands of the clock. They also used individual plastic clocks to record the time. They enjoyed this hands-on learning!
