St. Patrick's Day

I love celebrating holidays around our home.  Doesn't have to be a huge party, but simple touches help turn another ordinary school day into something fun and memorable.
When Cole was little, St. Patrick's Day was mostly green scavenger hunts, fun leprechaun books, and searching for shamrocks in the backyard.  As he's grown, we've come to LOVE this holiday as we learn more and more about Saint Patrick, his faith, and his journey to spread God's love to the Irish people.  We've minimized this holiday to cabbage and beer in America, but it's so much more - and that is what I love about spending the day (and week) teaching about a man that wasn't afraid to follow in obedience...even when it wasn't popular or pretty.

This past Tuesday we still enjoyed a fun breakfast, graphing Lucky Charms, hunting for four-leaf clovers, and colorful science experiments, but my favorite was watching the boys begin to understand and digest the story behind the day and what the common symbols truly mean.  Makes my heart happy!

You would've thought it was Christmas...Mommy bought sugary cereal!!

Ready for our day!

We began our activities outside, but had to move indoors because of the crazy wind.

Such a great book we found at the library.  All about Saint Patrick's life and the symbols /legends that surround the holiday.

Graphing Lucky Charms and answering/recording oodles of math questions/observations.

Little man simply enjoyed graphing and eating :)

Gracious...he looks so big!

 

Seriously...such a GREAT book!

Finished the day with a science experiment...molecules, density, and a rainbow in a jar.