Mrs. Katz and Tush

It's a really beautiful day today! Our church had a yard-cleaning day and 2 people cut our grass, too. Wasn't that kind? After Abby finished her schoolwork, she went out into the sunshine with Katie to hoe in the garden. Thomas joined them after he finished working at the church and Carrie has been outside cleaning out and washing the cars. Just a great day to be outside!

We've been slowly working on Mrs. Katz and Tush this week. We've read The Wedding That Saved a Town by Yale Strom (the only Jewish book my library had). We've talked about immigrants and I told Abby about why my family came to America from Ireland and England and Italy and David's family from Scotland. We looked at a big book we found at a library sale called Ellis Island by Wilton S. Tifft, which has great photos. We looked up Poland in the atlas and read about a Polish girl in Children Just Like Me. (This book has been a happy addition to our FIAR this year!) We're really enjoying All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. The older girls have loved this book for a long time and it's sweet to introduce it to Abby! This afternoon, Abby is going to help me make Paska dough for rolls to take to the Palm Sunday breakfast tomorrow and we'll make a little dough without yeast for her to see how that works. And just this morning we read a book about cats.

Our neighbor came over to bring some hay to cover our strawberries and invited Thomas and Abby to see some new kittens he found when he was loading the hay. Katie took them next door and she made a few pictures in the barn. It was fun to listen to Abby tell me all about it when they got home! They have a cat without a tail just like Tush!