Ok it's 7:30pm. But, I don't know many other Irish phrases.

This week we've been studying Ireland and St. Patricks Day.

Monday we baked shamrock shaped sugar cookies and frosted them with green frosting. The package (yes, prepackaged) had yellow frosting but Sophie saw how we could turn it green by adding blue food coloring. While the cookies were baking we took a blanket out to the front lawn to sit and hunt for 4 leaf clovers. We found 2 of them! They are currently being pressed inside a Strong's Concordance. lol.

Tuesday we went to the library and checked out some fun story books about Leprechauns. We had a chance to talk about the difference between real and make believe as well as the difference between making up stories for fun and telling lies in order to decieve. We learned about St. Patrick and how he used the 3 leaves on a shamrock to tell people about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.

Wednesday we read a book about Ireland and had fun trying to dance a jig!

Today, Thursday, we did a project involving a box of lucky charms! We set out to find out if there were more green clover marshmellows than any of the other shapes. We sorted, tallied, graphed, and estimated! In the end we found that there were more star shapes than any other! Then Sophie had fun eating just the marshmellows which is something she NEVER gets to do! :D

Sunday we'll be enjoying Corned Beef and Cabbage at Grandma and Papa's house!

What a fun week we've had! I'm sorry I didn't take any pictures. It didn't occur to me until I sat down to blog that I should have!

in case you're interested, we got the idea for the Lucky Charms project from:

http://www.technospudprojects.com/