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 finished our unit on Space and were able to visit the Franklin Institute and see a planetarium show. That was great!
We were able to visit the Penn Museum of Archaeology and enjoyed their Homeschool day. It was awesome to see artifacts from Ancient China, Africa, Israel and Egypt as well as artifacts from across the Roman Empire.
Our new science will bleed into our summer unit. We are enjoying Apologia's Zoology book, Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day, Fulbright.
This year I let Tristan pick the topic for our unit study and he chose animals. I am excited to get to the summer break so we can dive in head first all day every day. Right now we spend about half an hour a day on science, as per usual.
I promised a book review a while back: Melissa Sweet's Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White. At first I didn't enjoy this book. Sweet includes a lot of exerpts from E.B White's life. The book is like a biography and a scrapbook smashed together. That threw me off at first, but by the end, I loved it! I did not want this little biography to end! The kids liked it too. I can see why Amazon recommended it to me as one of the top 20 Children's books of 2016.
Happy reading!
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 finished our unit on Space and were able to visit the Franklin Institute and see a planetarium show. That was great!
We were able to visit the Penn Museum of Archaeology and enjoyed their Homeschool day. It was awesome to see artifacts from Ancient China, Africa, Israel and Egypt as well as artifacts from across the Roman Empire.
Our new science will bleed into our summer unit. We are enjoying Apologia's Zoology book, Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day, Fulbright.
This year I let Tristan pick the topic for our unit study and he chose animals. I am excited to get to the summer break so we can dive in head first all day every day. Right now we spend about half an hour a day on science, as per usual.I promised a book review a while back: Melissa Sweet's Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White. At first I didn't enjoy this book. Sweet includes a lot of exerpts from E.B White's life. The book is like a biography and a scrapbook smashed together. That threw me off at first, but by the end, I loved it! I did not want this little biography to end! The kids liked it too. I can see why Amazon recommended it to me as one of the top 20 Children's books of 2016.
Happy reading!
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