{"id":8719,"date":"2019-02-27T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=8719"},"modified":"2019-02-27T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:28:42","slug":"march-classroom-calendar-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/march-classroom-calendar-st-patricks-day","title":{"rendered":"Our March classroom calendar: St. Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explorica is very proud of our new resource for teachers: our 2018-19 Around the World classroom calendar!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The calendar features a new country and an international holiday or event for you to celebrate with your students each month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/EXP-INTL-FINAL-CALENDAR_March_compressed.pdf\">Download<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a new page each month on this blog (and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/4A322D444EFA67DF\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subscribe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!), hang it up in your classroom, and talk to your students about how the holiday reflects the country\u2019s history and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This March, we\u2019re featuring St. Patrick\u2019s Day. St. Patrick\u2019s Day\u2014celebrated on March 17\u2014marks the death day of St. Patrick, a fifth-century missionary and Ireland\u2019s patron saint. It is said that St. Patrick found God as a slave in Gaelic Ireland before leaving to become a priest and returning to convert the country to Christianity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legend has it that he used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the holy trinity to locals, and that he drove snakes out of the country, a metaphor for driving out the pagan traditions. The holiday began in the ninth and 10th centuries as a religious feast, and is now a day to celebrate Irish culture around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Questions to ask your students:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What does St. Patrick&#8217;s Day mean for you?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why do you think St. Patrick\u2019s Day is such a big deal in the United States? Why do you think it&#8217;s celebrated in countries around the world?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What other holidays have changed in significance over the years?<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think we celebrate on the date of St. Patrick&#8217;s death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explorica is very proud of our new resource for teachers: our 2018-19 Around the World classroom calendar! The calendar features a new country and an international holiday or event for you to celebrate with your students each month. Download\u00a0a new page each month on this blog (and subscribe!), hang it up in your classroom, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/march-classroom-calendar-st-patricks-day\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8723,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions\/8723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}