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Member FDIC Featured Teacher: Ginger Deitz, Grade 4, Bennett Elementary, Fargo, ND

What Would You Do If You Caught a How I Caught My Leprechaun If I Caught a Leprechaun… The Leprechaun’s Pot of My Writing is Leprechaun? One day I was walking through the park I would make it give me its gold. After I I was ready for bed, and I decided I One day I was walking when I saw a lep- and I saw a thing. It went really bought an I-pad 2, a T.V., and a mansion, would make a trap to catch a lepre- as Good as Gold rechaun eating cheese. I got closer and fast. That’s why I couldn’t figure out I would give some of the money to the chaun. Yes! I waited two years to get a it wasn’t cheese; it was gold! The lepre- what it was, and then I knew it was a animal shelter to help animals find a pot of gold from a leprechaun! I will buy Suppose you caught a leprechaun, chaun saw me, and I started running for leprechaun! I set traps for the lepre- good home. I would pay to put my face a mansion, a pet, and a new one dollar and he led you to a pot of gold? my life. He started running after me until chaun and one day I finally caught him. on a three dollar bill. Also, I would make bill with my face on it. I will also help What would you do with the gold? he caught me. The leprechaun said, “I’ll He begged me to let him go. Then he my leprechaun get a job to pay me for people who need walkers, wheelchairs, give you an ice cream pool, a rainbow brought me right to his gold. He said, not having enough gold. After his day at and other kinds of equipment if they are How I Caught a Leprechaun made of skittles, and a tooth pick if you “You can have all this gold if you let me work, I would have him make me tacos. poor and can’t afford these things. I was reading a book called How to don’t tell anyone where I live.” go.” I bought a mansion and connected I would hire a butler and I would buy By: Mahmoud Catch a Leprechaun. When I finished By: Cole a slide to it. mansions for homeless people. I would the book, I put on a green outfit, I put By: Peyten be a hero and people would love me. My Pot of Gold out a fake pot of gold, and then I hid If I Caught a Leprechaun After having my leprechaun living with I put a trap in my bedroom. A lepre- and waited for the leprechaun. I waited I would buy a mansion with five How I Caught a Leprechaun me for two years, I would let him go. chaun walked right in it. There was a and finally a little man wearing green hundred thousand flat-screen T.V.’s. I One day when I tried to attract a cat By: Emily pot of gold on my bed, and another took the pot of gold. He left something would also get sixty indoor pools with with fresh baked cookies, I saw a leprechaun was on the bed and said it behind. It had a screen and a button. sixty-foot slides. I would also get a maid leprechaun! I chased after it. Finally, I A , Very Tall Leprechaun was all mine. He wanted me to take I pressed it and it told me to go to the and a butler. caught it. Then I took the gold and ran. I saw a leaf that was pure purple. It it to charity. He said I could be a hero forest. I went to the forest and found By: Michaela When I got away, I took the gold and jumped out of the ground and exploded, if I brought it there, and I said, “Ok, I a real pot of gold! Then, I bought a bought a mansion with a hot tub, a pool leaving plenty of ash in the air. When would love to be a hero!” mansion, a stable and some horses. I’m My Millionbajillion Dollars with a water park, an amusement park, the ash cleared up, I could see a man By: Parth happy I read that book! I would take my millionbajillion dollars and three king-sized beds for me. I also as tall as a basketball player was sitting By: Vivianne (from the leprechauns and pots of gold), bought a limo made of PURE GOLD! there. He was holding a pot. He told me The Happy Friend and spend it on a giant house, a bunch By: Kara that he was a leprechaun. I was so sur- I was walking down the street and I saw If I Caught a Leprechaun of butlers and maids, lots of Legos, a prised that I slapped him. He slapped a leprechaun. I took a net and climbed a I would turn half of it into real money private jet, a movie theater, a water How I Caught a Leprechaun me back. He handed me the pot saying tree. Then, I threw the net down on her. and give it to charities like the Make a park with the biggest slide ever, and a First, I made a trap with really sticky I deserved it for what an awesome guy She took me to a pot of gold. I bought a Wish Foundation, the Humane Society REAL LIGHTSABER!! glue all over the floor of the trap. Then I I was. The pot had millions of dollars mansion and I asked her, “Do you want or the American Heart Association. With By: Sam went to bed. When I woke up, my room worth of gold in it. I gave him a high to live with me?” She said yes, and we the other half, I would buy a mansion was trashed and there was a noise five and the best pencil I had. lived happily together. and make every room look amazing! My Leprechaun Story coming from my closet. I opened the By: Andrew By: Hannah By: Isabelle I was walking home from school and I closet and there was a little leprechaun had a feeling I was being watched. Sud- stuck in the glue trap. I quickly asked Leprechaun’s Gift My Pot of Gold My Leprechaun Story denly, I noticed something behind a rock her where I could find her gold. She told I was walking home from school and I was playing in my back yard with my One day when I was walking home and then I heard a crack! I pretended I me it was buried under my house. I ran looking around, when I saw a bush that net when a leprechaun walked by. I from school, I saw a sleeping lep- didn’t hear it. Then I started following outside in my pajamas and grabbed a had never been there before. I went up grabbed my net and started swatting at rechaun. I pulled a net out of my it. I went into the woods. There stood a shovel. I dug under the house at 6 a.m. to the bush and saw a leprechaun hiding the ground. When I lifted my net, I saw backpack and caught him. I asked him pot of gold. So, I trapped the little green with a really bright flashlight. I kept on in it. The leprechaun said to me, “You the leprechaun in it. With Patrick’s gold, to lead me to his pot of gold, so he did. leprechaun, got his pot of gold, and digging and found a box filled with rare are the first person to find me. I will I would buy the biggest mansion in He tried to trick me a couple of times, spent it on a private game room. coins and Irish jewelry. give you my pot of gold.” At last, I saw the world with one million flat- but he finally led me to it. I decided to By: Jason By: Emily D. the largest safe of money ever. I told screen TVs. My mansion donate most of it to charity, but I still the leprechaun I would give it all to the would have eighty had almost a million dollars left, so I If I Caught a Leprechaun How I Caught My Leprechaun hospital. He said that was a good idea. indoor pools and one bought every good video game. I would use the gold to help endan- I was walking through my house and a The hospital got better equipment and hundred outdoor pools. I would By: Zach gered, sick, and homeless animals. I leprechaun got caught in my slingshot. everyone felt better and thanked me. also buy five I-phones. would also pay for the animal shelters He went flying through the house and hit By: Andy By: Taylor Leprechaun’s Loot to be built and the healing and research my arm while I was reading. I grabbed I was walking home from school and of animals. Then, I would buy a rescued him with my hands and I made him had to walk through a forest to get to and name her Bailey. I would give me all his gold. Then, I gave half of my house. I saw a little dude laughing become a crazy dog person and adopt the money to the space center, so they like Rumplestiltskin. Then snap! She fourteen more dogs. could start their exploration to . was gone! I looked around and found By: Faith By: Mark her in a trap. She said, “Will you get me out, and I’ll show you a pot of gold.” If I Caught a Leprechaun The Leprechaun’s Gold When we found it I said, “Wow! That’s I’d make him lead me to his pot of gold. I was walking down a hill and I saw a a lot of gold! There must be a million I would take the gold and run away leprechaun. I took out the net that I had pieces of gold in there!” I’ll get a tablet and climb a cliff. Next, I would buy a brought, and I threw it at him. I said, “I and lots of gift cards for it. Then, I will HUMUNGOUS flat-screen TV and hang caught a leprechaun!” I asked him if he get a puppy named Bear. Finally, if I it up in my room. I would buy an X-box could show me his gold and he did. I have any left over, I will split it in-half. 360 and a 3DS. I would also use that asked if I could have some of it and he One half will either be money for a car gold to buy a private jet. let me. I spent some of my gold on a or money for college. The other half will By: Eli mansion and a hot tub. I bought a dog go to the Red Cross. named Billy. I also got a nice back and By: Grace front yard where Billy and I could play. By: London

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