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Just wondering, is anyone else taking a rabbit trail from St. Patrick's Day to Ireland? 
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Michaela,
We'll be making some soda bread, playing some good
celtic music, pretend to be "riverdancers", read some
good books, and copy the breastplate of St. Patrick.
I just noticed you are from Wa St.....eastern or western? We are northwestern corner.....you can PM
the answer if that is ok? Your twins and one of mine
are the same age.
Blessings,
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We just read the picture book _Katie's Wish_ by Barbara Shook Hazen. It is set in Ireland and is a tale of forgiveness. The Catholic priest is favorably treated. The story itself is touching and would make for excellent discussion of the Sacrament of Confession also.
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Victoria in AZ wrote:
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Katie's Wish is one of the books we read as well! 
I hope no one minds if I share what we've done with the three books we read on the potato famine and immigration. It's not an organized, nor thought out lesson plan.
Since it was spur of the moment, most books I wanted were already checked out from our library. We just followed the trail.
Katie's Wish started our rabbit trail on the potato famine.
vocab ---- blight, famine, immigration, pratties, landlord, and hedgemaster
Nicholas read Genesis 41
Copywork -- The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe. Genesis 41:31
--Discussed how they think the Irish people felt during the famine.
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Explaining immigration lead to a quick read Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel Illustrated by Mary Azarian (illustrator of SnowFlake Bentely )
Miss Bridie immigrates to American. She takes one special item -- a shovel.
Discussed why she couldn't bring all she owned.
I asked my children what would be their ONE  special item.
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Then we read Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story
It's a fictionalized telling of Annie Moore, an Irish teen who was the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island.
Map Work ---- Traced her journey from her hometown to Ellis Island
--Discussed Ellis Island & Statue of Liberty
--Took an Interactive tour of Ellis Island
--Researched Famous Irish-Americans and put a few pictures into their Ireland lapbook.(JFK, Judy Garland, John Wayne..........)
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discussed potatoes -- plenty of vocab - tuber, perennial, cultivation, roots, eye
Potato biology has more vocab, clip art, and nutrient info (made a graph for nutrient info) put all of it into lapbook.
compared visually a variety of potatoes (weighed and measured)
Science
Why Fruits and Vegetables turn brown
Experimented by peeling and chopping a potato.
Leaving 1/4 exposed to air, 1/4 in cold water, 1/4 brushed lemon juice, 1/4 in ziplock
Had them tell me what they thought would happen to each portion.
Observation skills -- what actually happened?
-Cut from old magazines pictures of foods made from potatoes.(tater tots, potato salad, french fries, mashed potatoes) Listed others not found -- German potato salad, potato pancakes
FUN with potato stamping (carved shapes on potato and stamped)
Played "Hot Potato" with a real potato -- lots of laughs
We aren't finished with Ireland, yet.
My children have asked me to read Look What Came From Ireland
We might be running around the rabbit trails of Ireland a couple more days. 
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Michaela wrote:
| I hope no one minds if I share what we've done with the three books we read on the potato famine and immigration. It's not an organized, nor thought out lesson plan. |
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Michaela, it's wonderful!!  Thank you so much for posting these ideas. I'll find them very helpful as we celebrate St. Patrick's this week and move our history studies into American immigration later this month.
I thought I'd mention another book - The St. Patrick's Day Shillelagh - that is on Irish immigration and the potato famine. I haven't seen it yet (waiting for a library request) but it looks nice.
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Mary Ellen has an excellent series of posts and recommendations at the Bonny Blue House. (Also, don't miss the posts preceding and following the one I linked!)
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Dawn wrote:
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We read it this morning and it is very lovely, the story and the pictures. For some reason, I got a little teary-eyed. It's not that sad, really. It is actually a pretty simple story of a family shillelagh (an Irish walking stick) that is passed down through seven generations.
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Erica Sanchez wrote:
| We read it this morning and it is very lovely, the story and the pictures. For some reason, I got a little teary-eyed. It's not that sad, really. |
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Anything sentimental gets me teary-eyed when reading to the kids - doesn't have to be sad at all.
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The kids are watching "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" right now. On one of the additions to DVD there is a piece about how the leprechauns came to be. (I listened while cooking so I hope I get this right.)
When St. Michael battled the bad angels, some angels did not take sides. After the battle was over these angels were not allowed to stay in Heaven, but did not merit Hell either so....they were sent to Ireland.
I'm sure there's more, but I can't remember it. I had never heard the story before. I think that segment goes on and on after the angel story. We may just watch that part again today.
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