Exploring carrots and a carrot seed book blog linky

“The Carrot Seed” by Ruth Krauss is a classic children’s book and I think I own about 5 copies of the book but when I went to look for a copy to read to my class, all I could find was the oldest copy on the shelf.  So Miss Abby and I took a few minutes to share with the children how to take care of really old books…

And then Miss Abby read this old favorite to the children. “The Carrot Seed” is about a little boy planting a seed  but no one believes it will grow. There are many meanings you can pull from a book like this and we talked briefly about how even though no one else believed the plant would grow – the little boy never gave up.  This kind of reminds me of my own planting experiences with the exception that most times, what I plant rarely ever grows but I don’t give up! I just keep on planting seeds anyway:)…

We read this book for a couple of days during circle time and did many different kinds of activities to extend the book into other content areas of our classroom.  For today’s blog hop, I thought I would share our handprint carrots we made. They are quite beautiful…

The children started by drawing around their hands and arms. We chose the word “carrot” as our new addition to the word wall and often times, we will illustrate our words from the wordwall through our art…

After tracing their hands in pencil, the children chose to retrace the pencil markings with permanent marker. I think all the children did this step but I can’t remember for sure…

Once the children finished tracing their hands and arm up to the elbow, they painted their tracings with orange and green paint…

The green paint was painted on the hand for the leaves of the carrot…

Then the children used the orange paint to paint the arm for the carrot…

Super simple handprint carrot but this process gave us another chance to review and print the word carrot and to extend our book into the art experience as well…

More about this book in my next post and in the linky below. If you are viewing this post by email – you will have to come to the blog to view the linky!

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Deborah J Stewart

Deborah J Stewart

Every time I think I know everything I need to know about teaching young children, God says, "Hold on a minute!" and gives me a new challenge.

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With each new challenge that you overcome, you will find yourself better equipped and more passionate about teaching young children.

God didn't call wimps to lead, teach, or care for His children. Nope, he has high expectations, so get ready. You will have to give your very best but after teaching for over 30 years, I can tell you that it is a wonderful and rewarding journey.

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