Would you like to share your love of gardening with the children in your life?
Reading is such a powerful tool for cultivating curiosity…both for yourself and for kiddos!
Meghan Groves is a teacher, gardener, and mom. She is creating a brand new Grow Your Own Vegetables Microcourse to teach the little ones in your life about plants and how they grow!
As a reading specialist, Meg loves using books as a foundation for learning new ideas and new skills.
That’s why she created this video read-aloud with the book
The Enormous Carrot by Vladimir Vagin!
>>> Watch Meg’s Read-Aloud of The Enormous Carrot
The Enormous Carrot is a story about two gardeners who accidentally grow a carrot SO BIG they can’t pull it out of the ground themselves. They ask friends and neighbors to help. And by working together, the team finally harvests the enormous carrot! All of the friends celebrate their harvest by eating the enormous carrot together at a picnic.
The Enormous Carrot shows us the importance of working together, especially in the garden. The story will also help cultivate kids’ curiosity about how their food grows. It might even inspire them to grow their own enormous carrot!
After you watch the read-aloud together with a child in your life, you can take that curiosity into the real world!
Shop for carrot seeds, and discover all off the incredible varieties of carrots.
See what carrot seeds look like (they’re so tiny!).
Use the seed package or search the internet to learn what carrots need to grow.
Plant those seeds, and watch your carrots grow big and strong.
Later in the season, harvest your carrots together and cook up something yummy!
Learning more about vegetables also gives you an opportunity to expand a child’s palate. You could try some of the many carrot-based foods mentioned in the text, such as carrot pie (
Meg likes this recipe).
Engaging children in cooking is a powerful way to connect them with nutrients and can help even the pickiest eaters get excited to eat their vegetables!
Cooking with kids also:
Reinforces following directions
Gives an opportunity to practice measurements and math
Helps you connect with the children in your life over delicious, nutritious food!
It’s incredible what one well-chosen book can inspire. Watch Meg’s read-aloud of The Enormous Carrot with the children in your life, and see their curiosity grow…enormous!
To growing curiosity–together!
The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team
P.S. Know of any other kiddos who would love The Enormous Carrot? Forward this email to their adults!
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