Hunting for Leprechauns!

The morning began with an air of mystery and excitement. As I rushed into the gym to join my school's Running Club, I was greeted by 3rd graders anxious to know if our trap had worked. You see, this week my students have been busy devising plans for a trap to catch a leprechaun. We presented all the plans that were submitted and voted as a class on which one we wanted to try out. Lennox, the Leprechaun had already visited our class once this week and left a note wondering where our pot o' gold was. Now all we had to do was catch him and then we would be able to keep our gold as well!

We set the trap up using things that we had in our class- an ottoman and a ruler to prop the lid open. We also use fabric to create a "trail" leading to the gold. What we didn't expect to find when we walked in the door to our classroom was, well...a catastrophe...the pictures speak for themselves!

Admist the chaos that had apparently happened in the middle of the night, we fixed our eyes upon our trap. The lid was closed, which means that our trap had been triggered! We gathered around our trap and counted together, "1, 2, 3!!!" I lifted the lid, and what did we see? No, not a leprechaun! Instead the following note was left for us:

You tried to catch me and made mad, but magical powers I do have...

So I captured me gold and stole it back, so your teacher would have a Heart Attack!!

Our naughty leprechaun did leave us a gift. He scattered chocolate gold pieces for us to find.

As we picked up our classroom and put it back together, I passed out Lucky Charms to end our crazy adventure!