St. Patrick's Day. We all know to wear green or we will be pinched. We know St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, which is a land of leprechauns and rolling lush green hills and the blarney stone. Do you know the real story of St. Patrick's day? If not you can ask any of the students in the Communities in Schools (CIS) after school program at Red Springs Middle and they can tell you all about St.Patrick.
The youth learned the legend about St. Patrick and the true story behind the man before getting creative and making St. Patrick's day cards to celebrate the day. Although they liked the legend about the man who drove snakes the covered Ireland into the sea they liked the true story even better. The one of the Brit (yes St. Patrick was actually British) who was kidnapped on a trip to Ireland at the age of 16 and was enslaved for 6 years before his escape. He went home to his family but returned to Ireland later as a missionary and is credited with starting more than 300 churches in the country.
While the youth talked about his adventure they had fun finding secret leprechaun messages, completing traditional Irish word searches and making shamrocks. Every last one of them knew the difference between a shamrock and the 4-H Clover (three leaves versus four), and some could even tell me what all four of the H's stand for.
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