Educational technician Tammy Lyn Perry, left, sits with pre-kindergartner Kiley Gould, 4, during a St. Patrick’s Day celebration Thursday at Meroby Elementary School in Mexico. Students searched for shamrocks and evidence of an imaginary elf, Roy G Biv. The letters in the elf’s name stand for names of rainbow colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, Perry said. The hunt was part of a positive behavior program for students.

Students in Maggie Corlett’s kindergarten class line up after finding their hidden shamrocks in Kristen Giberson’s kindergarten classroom during a St. Patrick’s Day celebration Thursday at Meroby Elementary School in Mexico. The classroom shamrock hunts were part of a schoolwide program meant to support students in their positive behaviors.

Pre-kindergarten student Sophia Garcia is happy she found her shamrock during a St. Patrick’s Day celebration Thursday at Meroby Elementary School in Mexico.