Feeling lucky at Lawrence Primary School

Growing leprechaun hair by putting soil, seed and water in plastic cups was one of the many activities Lawrence Primary School students took part to learn about and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

To mark the Irish holiday, the students created rooms for the leprechauns, usually depicted in Irish folklore as short, bearded men, wearing a coat and hat involved in mischief. The children wrote descriptions of their rooms and created four-leaf clovers, and also wrote about their former teachers and how lucky they are to know those educators.

In math class, the students used four-leaf clovers to represent numbers in a variety of ways, including expanded, pictorial, standard forms in word.

During science, technology, engineering art and math (STEAM) lessons. The children made leprechaun traps applying engineering skills.

After the learning there was a green party that featured cookies, fruits, juices, snacks and vegetables all colored green.