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 ways you have learned with and explored books.
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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
The book Whose Garden Is It? By Mary Ann Hoberman is such fun to read. A mother and her son stop by to admire a neighborhood garden while out on a walk.
Mrs. McGee comments and asks who owns it and the man tending the garden says that it is his.
Mrs. McGee hears voice after voice claiming that the garden is theirs. The rabbit, bees, rain, sun, dirt, worms, seeds and about 15 other animals and elements of nature claim that it is theirs.
This book is in rhyme and is such fun to read. The words flow easily of the reader’s tongue and give young children the opportunity to guess that the last rhyme of each page will be.
The pictures are gorgeous. The watercolor painting will each page and surround the words.
This books has quickly become a favorite.
What did we do?
Planted Seeds
I found some wonderful seed kits at the dollar store that contained peat pods, pots, and seeds. The coolest part about them is that the peat pods grow when you place them in warm water. It is amazing to watch the soil rise.
Then we placed the pots into a cute metal tub I aslo found at the dollar store. Oh! We put paper towels under the pots to absorb the water that drained out of the pots.
Created a Upcycled Watering Bottle
What have you been reading and creating this week?
We’ve been working on our garden too. I just got out our spring books this week, so we have a lot of gardening books to enjoy now. I haven’t heard of this one before – it sounds great!
The bottle totally cracked me up.
The girls have several special gardens in our yard. As you know, we are about to start on a big one but they also have their fairie garden which they spend a lot of time in. Yesterday, my 8 yr old daughter pulled up the wild onions and tied them together, blade by blade to make a huge rope for her fairies to zip line on from one branch of a tree to another. I love the peace, imagination and knowledge that can come out of a garden.
We love Mary Ann Hoberman poetry (A House Is a House For Me is one of our absolute favorite poetry books). I am going to put this book on hold right away. Thanks for sharing it!
I love your recycled watter bottle. Such a great idea!
Love how you linked the two of these together@!
Your book sounds delightful and your seed planting lots of fun!
Love the bottle idea!
Sounds like a great book … and those are wonderful activities to go with the book! I pinned your post to my Gardening/Botany Unit Study Pinterest board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/gardening-botany-unit-study/
Great little book. We read it last year and my girls really liked it.
Now that water bottle is a cool and inexpensive way to let kids help you water without a big mess! Love the idea & thanks for sharing all your fun on the Sunday Showcase.
You always have such wonderful book activities! We love gardening here and really need to get started. I’ll have to look into that book! I have that same little dragonfly planter. I love dragonflies. It’s kind of my thing. 🙂 And I love your upcycled plant water bottle! I bet that makes it fun and easy to water your plants. Do you think you’ll post about how they grow? If so, I can’t wait to see it. Sprouting plants really are exciting.
That sounds like so much fun! I know I always say that, but I mean it each time! 😀
Sounds like a book we need to check out! You chose a perfect activity to go along with it. 🙂
i wish we could have a garden… but, no such luck…
one day!
You always find the cutest stories! My kids love flowers and gardens thnks to their grandma and the love of flowers she has instilled in my kids
This gardening book looks great. Can’t go wrong with Mary Ann Hoberman/ Jane Dyer combo!
Just wanted to stop by and say thanks for your kind words at my blog the other day. Your book/activity is a fantastic way to make storytelling interactive! This has given me some great ideas for toddler activities. Thanks again for stopping by…it really means a lot.
We’ve been planting as well last week and in fact this week as well – but haven’t heard of that book must try and find it somewhere. We did however find Grandpa’s garden and got a copy of that to read – really lovely book. I also love you upcycled water bottle – J would love to use that.