“This place is a mess!” exclaimed Lauren Cranford, as she surveyed Cindy Norman’s kindergarten classroom at Fletcher Elementary on Saint Patrick’s Day.
Overturned chairs, green bathroom water, bursts of glitter and tiny footprints tracked through spilled green paint were the telltale signs of a leprechaun run amok, Norman told her class.
They’d been expecting the leprechaun’s antics, and the students had spent Monday devising and illustrating traps to capture the leprechaun, should he come calling.
The children gathered around an overturned box in the center of Norman’s classroom, hoping to find that the leprechaun had been lured in by the pot of gold they’d set as bait. But the mischievous creature had left a leprechaun figurine in his place – and made off with the gold!
Norman pointed out the leprechaun was kind enough to leave chocolate gold coins for the students’ snack time, but several kindergarteners said they would’ve preferred the gold.
Eager to restore his classroom, Alex Hubbard said, “I’m cleaning up,” and began repositioning all the chairs while his classmates set to scrubbing off the green footprints.
“At the end of the day, everything gets washed really good,” Norman said, laughing.
(Article written by Molly McGowan Gorsuch, HCPS Public Information Officer.)