Mrs. Katz and Tush
Last week, in kindergarten, we enjoyed the story Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polocco. This is such a sweet story and it was nice to learn about Passover right here before Easter. We also learned about Cats, Yiddish, New York City and Immigration. We enjoyed lots of fun activities that were simple, for example we learned how to draw a cat. We learned to count in groups by using the patterned clothing in the story and we enjoyed reading the story of the first Passover in Exodus 11-13. Patricia Polocco's G is for Goats, is a lovely companion book to this for younger siblings who are learning their alphabet. Also the Beautiful Yetta: the Yiddish Chicken, series by Daniel Pinkwater. These are super fun books. What I enjoy about these stories is that they come from a real place and each of the authors are telling stories about what they know to be true, even if the characters are fictional. Second grade is also going well. We are tracking along with our curriculum . We fi...