The Carrot Seed, a FIAR book

Now that we are done with CC for the year, yet not wanting to stop school this early, I decided to pick up a manual I used with the kids in our first year of homeschooling called Five in a Row (FIAR)
I loved using this program with the kids 6 years ago...I don't remember why we didn't continue with it, but I do remember having fun exploring books in this fashion.  Basically we read the same book for five days in a row and do learning activities--science, history or social studies, English grammar or geography that is exemplified in the book.
Our first rowing expedition is  The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss 

With this book we discussed color--brown and orange.  (all the illustrations we done in these two colors) 

 We talked about the needs of plants and planted some seeds of our own...radish, because they grow so fast.  Carrots` are actually quite slow in germinating.

planting and watering our seeds.

We created another file folder project for this book.  In there we

We discussed 'small medium and large"  read a poem about seeds growing and have a "seed growth chart for them to draw--from day to day--about what they observe of their planted radish seed

We talked about what other words began with the letter 'C' and some more about what seeds need to grow--sun, water, soil and air.



We had fun exploring this book and look forward to more rowing adventures.