Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books.
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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
Jack’s Garden by Henry Cole is built around the old story The House that Jack Built.
Jack starts with a garden soil filled with creatures.
Then he adds seeds to the soil that makes up the garden.
Rain wets the seeds that are in the soil that makes up the garden.
The seeds become seedling and later plants in the soil that makes up the garden.
The plants grow flowers that attract bugs in the soil that makes up Jack’s garden by the end of the book.
Henry Cole’s well label illustrations are the best part of the book. I was able to tell JDaniel the names of all the bugs and types of flowers, because they were labeled in the book.
What did we do?
We planted seeds about a month and a half ago.
We talked and read to the seeds to help them grow.
The pollen level was high so, I brought the plants inside so that JDaniel could check on their progress. He came up with the wonderful idea of pictures walking them through some of his books.
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I’ve written two Read Explore Learn posts this week. So I’ll be linking up in the near future 😉
Aren’t you soooo excited about your beets?!? 🙂 Nice that you can bring the seeds inside for him.
I should plant some seeds with my grand daughter today. We do a lot of cooking together and she helps me water the plants but I’ve never grown seeds with her. I think this sounds like a good project that she would like.
(mom loop)
It’s so sweet that he wanted to read stories to the plants! Good luck with your garden.
It’s good to see the plants growing inside!
Great ideas…I think kids are fascinated by seeing how things grow like that.
Always great ideas. I’m so sad I haven’t had the chance to make it to the Library so I can link up. I do have 1 book but no ideas for it. Llama Llama Misses Momma- any ideas for this book? I keep coming up blank.
How cute is that! My kids love planting things, me…not so much 🙂
Cool meme, this is a good idea. Great to tie in a fun activity with learning too. That book sounds cool.
What a great idea. My kids always loved watching those little seedlings appear!
I love finding a book and making it come alive like that! Such great ideas : )
~Kristin
Your son is absolutely precious!!! He read to the plants. Now if that isn’t a loving child I don’t know what is. You’re doing an absolutely wonderful job!
I’m in LOVE with this meme! Sharing now… love it! thanks!
So many great ideas!! I wasn’t sure if this link was okay or not? If not, just delete it! Thanks for letting us link up. I LOVE blog hopping;)
Now that the danger of frost has passed (we hope) we finally planted our garden this week. Waiting for the seeds to sprout! We read the book Inch by Inch: The Garden Song.
That sounds like a great book! And I love the talking and reading to the seeds! 🙂 Deb @ LivingMontessoriNow.com
Catching up on neglected links! Thanks for linking up at Feed Me Books Friday! We’ve been carefully monitoring our garden over the last couple weeks. We seem to have some insect issues that the natural methods just aren’t tackling. Perhaps we can identify the culprits with this book!
The book sounds great and it’s given me the idea that i should get my hands on some growing books ready for the summer. Thank you for linking up to Gardening Adventures and always reading my blog xx