My first Saint Patrick

We are a class of 24 3-year-old kids from Virgen de Atocha School in Madrid.

We all got class dressed in green, which is our favourite colour, not only because our class is green, but also because green represents our rite emotion: calm. We use a story book called “Monster of Colours” to learn how to recognise and deal with our emotions. Every morning we use colour green for meditation.

The mascot of our class is Harry the wizard, who serves us as a link with the English language and British culture. But one of his friends from Hogwarts is Seamus Finnigan, from Dublin, and he taught us different and fun stuff about his culture. He talked about a special day Irish people celebrate 17^th March.

He talked about a men, Saint Patrick, who taught the Christianity to the Irish people, banished all snakes from Ireland and used shamrock in order to teach of three persons in one God. We pray to Infant Jesus and we thanked him for that.

He introduced us into the Irish folklore. We already have an Irish fairy at class, called Ciara, who comes sometimes to give us some presents, such us birthday crowns – when is somenone’s birthday -, story books about dinosaurs or prehistoric people – because we’re learning the prehistory-. Our fairy was visited by a naughty leprechaun, called Oisín,    who was sorrowful because he lost his treasure: a pot of gold. He promised to give us a special plant if we help him. He showed us that extraordinary plant, which was a three-leafed shamrock. Seamus taught us how to draw shamrocks and to draw the number three, and count some stuff until three. It was entertaining to learn this new number in such a special day.

Seamus taught us a special song to learn the rainbow colours and to do a rainbow for the leprechaun.  “Red and yellow and pink and green. Purple and orange and blue. I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow. Sing a rainbow too”.

We were practicing our fine motor skills doing small balls with colourful papers, in order to do an enormous rainbow and help the leprechaun to find his pot of gold. When we finished, he was so grateful. Inside his pot of gold, there was a birthday crown –decorated with shamrocks- for one of our peers, and all together sang the birthday song.