I love to be amidst nature and Spring time is the best time in India to enjoy the outdoors because summers are too hot and winters are too cold. So I consider the few weeks that we get of this season a blessing. Its also a great time to take learning outdoors! You can have conversations about plants, bees, butterflies, different kinds of flowers and much more with little children. Planting different seeds and reading books about them are few of our favorite activities during this time.
And the one book we make sure to read is "The Carrot Seed" By Ruth Krauss.
It's an adorable book about a little boy who plants a carrot seed and waits for it to grow. He tends to his seed everyday even though others around him believe that it would never grow.
The book has simple words and illustrations and will appeal to little children. Through this book, they will also learn what does a seed need in order to grow.
I always ask children to sequence the story once we read it in order to find out weather they comprehended the story or not and also to build their language skills. For this story, we made a carrot craft and then used pictures for sequencing.
I got the pictures from HERE.
We also used a real carrot to stamp different sizes of carrots.
We talked about how a carrot seed grows. Get this printable from HERE.
Since we were focusing on letters and reading words we played this fun game. Children had to match letter/word with the picture.
Have you read this book? What activities do you use with this book? Leave a comment to let me know.
Read more about other PLANT BOOKS that we read during this time.
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