Farmer Boy

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We started reading 'Farmer Boy" by Laura Ingalls Wilder last night. I enjoyed it as a kid, so I thought it would be good to read. I thought it would go well enough with the unit we're doing. We have to stop and make comments throughout any book like this, of course, and our first set of comments last night was how all that wool that Almanzo was wearing, even woolen underwear, would be very itchy. Then we went on reading for a little while. In the book Almanzo was doing his chores and the book said "the hay smelled dusty-sweet. There was a smell, too, of horses and cows and a wooly smell of sheep." and my youngest commented "Maybe its his wool underwear giving him the wooly smell."