HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

 

St. Patrick’s Day observes of the death of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The holiday has evolved into a celebration of Irish culture with parades, special foods, music, dancing, drinking and a whole lot of green.  Read here.

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

MARCH

MARCH

Dear March  -  Come in  -
How glad I am  -
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HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

Here you can find a lesson plan about St Patrick’s Day.

MARCH

MARCH

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

MARCH

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:  when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

Charles Dickens 

MARCH

"Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;

And give us not to think so far away

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here

All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,

Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;

And make us happy in the happy bees,

The swarm dilating round the perfect trees."

Robert Frost, A Prayer in Spring

HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!

To celebrate International Women’s Day, I suggest reading  this article about Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban on 9 October 2012 and snatched from death miraculously. 

Malala, who is the outspoken daughter of a devoted schoolmaster who encouraged her love of learning, defied the Taliban’s obscurantist resolve to keep girls in the dark and raised her voice in defence of their education in a country where the illiteracy rate for women is 60 %.

When she was only 11, she started giving  inspiring public speeches; she also began writing a blog for the BBC under a pseudonym, in which she wrote about maltreatment and restrictions imposed by the Taliban and the horrible limitations of life under their reign of terror. 

MARCH

Dear March - Come in

Dear March - Come in -    

How glad I am -

I hoped for you before -

Put down your Hat -           

You must have walked -

How out of Breath you are -             

Dear March, how are you, and the Rest -

Did you leave Nature well -              

Oh March, Come right upstairs with me -

I have so much to tell -

I got your Letter, and the Birds -     

The Maples never knew that you were coming -

I declare - how Red their Faces grew -                  

But March, forgive me -    

And all those Hills you left for me to Hue -    

There was no Purple suitable -         

You took it all with you -            

 

Who knocks? That April -

Lock the Door -

I will not be pursued -

He stayed away a Year to call           

When I am occupied -               

But trifles look so trivial     

As soon as you have come

              

That blame is just as dear as Praise

And Praise as mere as Blame.

Emily Dickinson