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. Patrick's Day is one of the most popular annual festivals in the world. See how many famous structures you can identify in the photo slideshow below.

celebrating around the world
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History of St. Patrick's Day
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In the past stained glass windows were used to tell stories, primarily religious stories, what can you tell about St. Patrick from these windows?
using stained glass windows as way to tell stories
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Question:
If St. Patrick died on March 17, 461 what century would that have been? Show your work and explain your answer. 

history of St. Patrick's day video
st. Patrick's day according to irish children
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st. Patrick's day song
Questions:
1.What are some of the things that you learned about St. Patrick's Day from the song?
2.Do you think this song is a good teaching tool for elementary students? Explain.
3.Define the following words: vowed, shamrock, vision.

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St. Patrick's Day in Canada
The Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Newfoundland and Labrador and a small island in the Caribbean called Montserrat are the only places that recognize St. Patrick’s Day as a public holiday. Canada is home to about 4,544,870 people claiming to have Irish blood.

Question:
1.In your opinion, why might St. Patrick's Day be a public holiday in Newfoundland and Labrador and not one in other parts of Canada? Explain your answer.
2. As a fraction, what is the number of provinces that celebrate as a public holiday to those that do not.


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St. John's Ice Caps Alternate Jersey's
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Cabot Tower, Signal Hill, NL
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Niagara Falls, ON
st. Patrick's Day in canada
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what are legends?
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history of leprechauns video
leprechauns video
Question:
Write your own legend about leprechauns. Remember to include descriptive details in your written answer.

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Are Leprechauns Real?
If so, are they abstract or concrete???

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abstract or concrete
Questions:
1.In your opinion, do you think leprechauns are abstract or concrete nouns? Can they be seen or are they ghost-like figures? explain your answer.
2.Using some of the information you have learned from the history and legends of leprechauns, draw a picture of what you think a leprechaun might look like.
3.Using your knowledge about collective nouns, what do you think a group of leprechauns might be called?

collective nouns
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group of leprechauns
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have you seen a leprechaun song
I'm a little leprechaun song
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Dance
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dance
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dance II
Using the videos above as a guide, create your own leprechaun dance movement sequence.
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read aloud
Questions:
1.Do the descriptions/characteristics of leprechauns in this story compliment or contrast what you have learned about leprechauns in our section on legends? Explain your answer.
2. What audience level is this book written for? Explain.
3. Draw an illustration of a line or phrase that you most enjoyed in the story?

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read aloud
Questions:
1.Did this story remind you of any other stories you have read? If so, which ones?
2.Although it may appear that this book is intended for a young audience, did you find value in it as a teaching tool about leprechauns. Explain?
3.This story is written in rhyme... do you think this worked well for the story? Justify your answer.
4.Did you enjoy listening to this story with the reader having had an accent? Explain.
 

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read aloud
worksheet
Questions:
1.Do you think this is a good title for the book. Explain your answer.

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Boy, these guys can be pretty confident and such braggarts!!!
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leprechaun trap kit
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simple machines
simple machines webpage
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what kind of a trap will you make?
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Shamrocks and Four Leaf Clover - what is the Difference?
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The word shamrock comes from the Gaelic word Seamrog, meaning “little clover”.  A clover is the commonly used name for any number of plants belonging to the genus Trifolium, meaning “having three leaves.”  Even among botanists, there is some disagreement on what species is the “true” shamrock, but most agree that the White Clover is probably the original shamrock of Irish symbolic heritage.  While trying to convert the Irish into Christians, St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the holy trinity with each leaf representing the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.The three leaves of a shamrock are also said to stand for faith, hope and love.  A fourth leaf is where we get the luck from.  The four-leafed clover, or “lucky clover”, is an uncommon variation of the three-leafed clover, and widely considered to be a symbol of good luck.  Because they are a mutation, they are rare, and not found in the same abundance as the shamrock, and thus, considered lucky.  The traditional Irish symbol of a shamrock does not include the fourth leaf.

What's the difference?
Four Leaf Clover
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The four leaf clover is one of the most common good luck symbols of the Western world. The four leaves represent hope, faith, love and luck. This is the most shared belief. Some say the four leaves represent fame, wealth, love and health.  All agree that the four leaf clover is one of the most auspicious good luck symbols around.
Chances of discovering a four leaf clover are 1:10 000. For that reason alone we see it is lucky indeed.



folklore and clovers
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Using Math to Explore Clovers
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symmetry webpage
Using a mira draw the rest of the 4 leaf clover.
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Using the above as a guide, create your own dot to dot drawing of a shamrock or 4 leaf clover.
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Using the above as a guide, create a mystery mosaic using numbers for colours in order to create a shamrock or 4 leaf clover.
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Using a grid, create coordinates in order to recreate the picture on the following graph paper.
Using the positive and negative axis below, create a shamrock or 4 leaf clover with coordinates.

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The Arts
Visual Arts
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Pipecleaner Craft
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Using the above as a guide, write clear instructions for creating a pipe leprechaun using pipe cleaners. Don't forget to include your materials list.
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4 leaf clover
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Select one of the art projects above, and write clear instructions for creating the craft... don't forget to include the materials list.
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Other Visual Art Ideas
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light spectrum and rainbows
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read aloud
ROYGBIV or Roy G. Biv is an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
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colours of the rainbow
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Questions:
Using the tables below, how many nickels/quarters/dimes/loonies/toonies could a pot of gold hold? How much money might that be? Explain your answer.
Using the tables, how much would would each of those amounts weigh in grams/kilograms? Which coin do you think would weigh the most. Explain your answer.

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magical legend of leprechauns
the last leprechaun
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