The Carrot Seed

I'm catching up my blog posts on some of the books we've been doing lately. We studied, "The Carrot Seed" by Ruth Krauss (illustrated by Crockett Johnson) a couple of weeks ago.

We enjoyed this nice little book about patience and perseverance. We covered most of the curriculum and I found some other fun things to do.

It was a carroty week around here.

Books we read:
The Enormous Carrot by Vladimir Vagin
The Giant Carrot by Jan Peck
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
The Little Fish that Got Away by Bernadine Cook and illustrated by Crockett Johnson (same illustrator).

We talked about the illustrators style. Through the book he uses the same colors and only draws the characters in profile. We talked about "profile" and practiced showing each other our profiles. He know profile as when you only see one of the person's eyes. We looked at another book illustrated by Crockett Johnson and noticed that the people in that book are also drawn in profile.

I bought carrots at the store that still had their tops (or at least some of them). Grom arranged them by length and determined which was the longest carrot both the orange vegetable part and including the greens. Then we cut the the greens off and cut the carrots to different lengths. The carrots were put in a bowl and kept watered. We speculated as to which carrot would sprout more greens the fastest. Grom's carrot won. It was the one with equal lengths of carrot and greens.


I found lapbook stuff at homeschoolshare.com. Grom is having more fun with letters and completing projects. His coloring is getting better and he is sometimes using multiple colors instead of his usual monochrome.