What isMs. Martin's favoritegreen drink? 
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By the Numbers
Web Quest and Leprechaun Hunt
Snoopy Word Search
Find the Lucky Four Leaf Clover
Find the Leprechaun
Lucky Four Leaf Clover
St. Patty's Puppy Puzzle
Another Word Search
A Green Crossword Puzzle
Help the Leprecaun get his gold back!
A STORYNORY St. Patrick Audio Story
Spot the Leprechaun Differences
Shamrock Sudoku
Shamrock Solitaire
St. Patrick Day SnakeFacts
A Little More History
St. Patrick's Day honors a 5th-century saint who not only spread Christianity in Ireland, but also supposedly ridded the island of snakes by herding them out to sea. As a popular Irish folk song puts it, "Success to bold St. Patty's fist / he was a saint so clever / He gave the snakes and toads a twist / and banished them forever."
Is that true? Did St. Patrick really banish all snakes (and toads) from Ireland?
Not exactly. Ireland didn't have snakes in the first place, due to its geographic location and glacial history. When snakes first evolved 100 million years ago - slithering around the ancient supercontinent of Gondwanaland - Ireland was still underwater. As continents drifted and sea levels changed, Ireland eventually rose up from the Atlantic, and was even briefly linked to Britain and mainland Europe by land bridges. But as the Smithsonian Institution explains, "any snake that may have slithered its way to Ireland would have turned into a popsicle when the ice ages hit."
Perennially frozen ground is unkind to cold-blooded animals, so Ireland stayed snake-free until it finally thawed about 15,000 years ago. And while snakes could have invaded after that, there was still one problem: the ocean. Thanks to 12 miles of chilly seawater separating it from Britain, Ireland is now one of just five major landmasses on Earth with no native snakes, joining Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland and New Zealand.
Yes, Ms. Martin does love Mountain Dew!