Poem April 3+4+Pippi Longstocking

April 3 we read:

Stars in Alabama By Jessie Redmon Fauset 2024

In Alabama

Stars hang down so low,

So low, they purge the soul

With their infinity.

Beneath their holy glance

Essential good

Rises to mingle with them

In that skiey sea.

At noon

Within the sandy cotton-field

Beyond the clay, red road

Bordered with green,

A Negro lad and lass

Cling hand in hand,

And passion, hot-eyed, hot-lipped,

Lurks unseen.

But in the evening

When the skies lean down,

He’s but a wistful boy,

A saintly maiden she,

For Alabama stars

Hang down so low,

So low, they purge the soul

With their infinity.

Source: https://poets.org/poem/stars-alabama

Barron's word selection: 

Our Paw:

April 4: 

Our daily poem: 

Little Things By Marion Strobel 2024

Little things I’ll give to you—

Till your fingers learn to press 

Gently 

On a loveliness;

Little things and new—

Till your fingers learn to hold

Love that’s fragile,

Love that’s old.

Source: https://poets.org/poem/little-things

Barron's word selection:

We purchased this game at our local Walmart should you be wondering.

Our PAW:

This week we began reading Pippi Longstocking and Barron read two other books by Astrid Lindgren which were The Tomten and The Tomten and the Fox. 

We were blessed to find this reasonably priced resource from As We Walk Shop at TPT: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dollar-Deals-Pippi-Longstocking-Notebooking-Printable-Pack-4751900

In our book so far Pippi has made some lovely cookies called pepparkakor and lives in a house called Villa Villekulla which gives us an idea to try next Christmas a gingerbread house in the style of Pippi. We found this neat book at our local library and thought the cozy cabin creation was lovley.

A quick search shows us that those cookies, pepparkakor, are similar to our gingerbread cookies: