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Every March 17th people around the world join the Irish to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Wearing green, eating corned beef and cabbage, learning about leprechauns’ pots of gold, and looking for lucky shamrocks are some of the practices associated with this greenest of holidays. In this issue you’ll discover why green is the color of choice, how to measure the length of the legendary leprechaun, and how they fill their pots of gold. Then hunt through the newspaper for words describing this special day, and use them in a story about your own four-leaf clover adventure. Get ready for St. Patrick’s Day by joining Kid Scoop on a magical journey to Ireland for a wee bit of Irish fun!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about a holiday
- understand beliefs and traditions of another culture
- measure using non-standard units
- learn the legend of leprechauns’ gold
- locate abbreviations in the news
- discover a hidden shape
- use the newspaper to locate descriptive adjectives
- write imaginatively about your luck finding a four-leaf clover
- follow visual instructions to illustrate a leprechaun
7 page PDF
