12A • COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • MARCH 13, 2019
© 2019 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
Vol. 35, No. 14
By selling fairy shoes,
Lily Leprechaun has earned
a lot of golden lepre-coins
(that’s Leprechaun money).
We make shoes
for fairies!
round St. Patrick’s Day, you
will often hear legends
about leprechauns
and their pot of
gold at the end of the
rainbow. Have you
ever wondered
where they get
all of that gold?
So, we are always busy making
new shoes for them. And they pay
us in gold – LOTS of gold!
Their shoes wear out
very quickly because
fairies dance all night.
Circle in BLUE:
$1.30 worth of Lepre-coins
W
hat if the leprechaun spent more gold coins to make
the shoes than he charged the fairies? He would run
out of gold pretty quickly!
Just making and selling shoes isn’t
enough to collect the gold needed
to fill a leprechaun’s pot.
Leprechauns have to keep
an eye on the costs of
making fairy shoes, too.
If it costs 7 gold coins for the
supplies to make one pair of
fairy shoes, what should the
leprechaun charge so that
he covers his costs and has
some money left over to
pay himself for his work
to make the shoes?
Take a look at the cost
of shoe supplies on
this list.
Work with a parent and help
Lily count her money. You’ll
need a RED, BLUE and
GREEN crayon to circle the
coins that add up to each
amount. IMPORTANT: You
can only circle each coin once,
and when you’re done, every
coin should be circled.
50 gold coins!?
That’s way too
expensive for me!
Circle in RED:
55¢ worth of Lepre-coins
Circle in GREEN:
45¢ worth of Lepre-coins
How many
shamrocks
can you find Picking the right price is important. If the leprechaun
on this page? charges too little, he will lose money. But if he charges
too much, he will lose customers.
Use these worksheets to add up the costs of making each pair
of shoes. Then find the difference between the costs and the
selling price to determine the profit for each pair of shoes.
Pixie Prancers
LEPRECHAUN’S GOLDEN VOCABULARY WORD:
PROFIT: Money earned after
the expenses are paid.
TREE BARK ..............
DAISY PETALS .........
PINE NEEDLES .........
LILAC PETALS ..........
TOTAL COST:
PRICE:
PROFIT:
Pretty Petunias
TREE BARK ..............
DAISY PETALS .........
PINE NEEDLES .........
PETUNIA PETALS .....
TOTAL COST:
PRICE:
PROFIT:
Refined Rosies
TREE BARK ..............
DAISY PETALS .........
PINE NEEDLES .........
ROSE PETALS ..........
TOTAL COST:
PRICE:
PROFIT:
Add up the coins on each path that leads to the Leprechaun piggy bank. Which path has the most gold coins?
Math is
GOLDEN!
Numbers are
useful every day.
Look through the
newspaper to find a
number that tells each
of the following:
An address
A price
A phone number
An age
A year
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to
locate information.
Fairy Shoe Sorter
Draw lines between each pair of fairy shoes to make exact
matches. Look carefully!
Standards Link: Follow simple written directions.
the words in the puzzle.
LEPRECHAUN Find
How many of them can you
CUSTOMERS
find on this page?
PATRICK
Y S U B S R H K O P
LEGENDS
G O L D I E P C S R
FAIRIES
L A N A T O O I P O
PETALS
PROFIT
E D P H T S S R R F
COSTS
G P G R T E O T I I
SHOES
E I F S O I P A C T
PRICE
N U A H C E R P E L
NIGHT
D T S E I R I A F S
GOLD
PAIR
S C U S T O M E R S
BUSY
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
POT
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
DETERMINE
The verb determine
means to learn or find
out exactly.
The number of coins he
collects will determine
what he can buy.
Use the word determine in a
sentence today when talking
with your friends and family.
Four-leaf
Clover
Small, Large, Larger
and Largest
Find four numbers in today’s newspaper. Cut
them out and glue them on a piece of paper in
order from the smallest to the largest.
ANSWER: When they are French fries!
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate
information.
This week’s word:
I knew my luck would change
the moment I picked up a
beautiful four-leaf clover.
Finish this story.
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