The Carrot Seed- Part One

Wow! What a week!! This one was one for the books- it was good, it had some bad, it had hard times, and victories, moments of incredible weakness and moments of success and such thankfulness for others. Because of such a busy week, I decided the book we studied this week will carry into next week too. The Carrot Seed, although simple, had so much more we wanted to do with it. So this week's blog will be The Carrot Seed part one.

The Carrot Seed is a lovely simple little book about believing and waiting and tending to a seed when others tell you it won't grow or amount to anything and then one day it sprouts into a huge beautiful carrot. (Yes, I hear you God) Silas and Ezra both enjoyed this story and because of the simplicity it is easy enough to be memorized and for Silas to read on his own and that always makes him feel very big. As I'm learning more about my children as students, I think I've said before but will say again Silas is a very auditory learner. He hears things once or twice and can remember and quote them for forever. He has always loved to sit and listen to books. Ezra, on the other hand, is completely hands on. He is WAY to busy to listen to a story and if you start to read one it only reminds him of a different book that he wants to read himself, without you. BUT if you have art supplies out or one of our bins- he is ready to participate FULLY. This middle child of mine is 100% hands on, kinesthetic learner. It is in these moments that I value my education background very much so I can appeal to the different learning styles of my most favorite students.

On Monday, we read our story for the first time. We also, finally got the fancy carrots with the carrot tops, that Silas has been begging for. Thank goodness I got 2 bunches because these kids cleaned and ate an entire bunch that morning. With ranch, even though Silas called it yummy tarter sauce. Haha. 

 

After we cleaned, ate, and discussed carrots and that they are a vegetable but also a root. We used a couple of carrots to do a carrot impression painting. The boys loved this and were busy with this a while. 

We also "planted" some seeds to see how they grow under ground. 

Each day, we checked the progress of our seeds and they have already begun sprouting, how cool. We also worked on writing number 3. Before bed, we read Peter Rabbit, because Peter liked carrots too, and Silas was invited to see his first play, The Tale of Peter Rabbit on Tuesday.

Tuesday, Silas was so excited to go on a field trip to see Peter Rabbit with his favorite friend, Luciana. They had so much fun together and played all day! Silas' first "without mommy" field trip was such a success and still went so great with our weekly story. I wish I would have gotten a picture of him before or after but I forgot :(

Wednesday, was quite different because we had a big youth service and not a lot of help because a lot of our leaders were sick. The boys learned about the importance of serving others, helping family (dad), and how it is important to do hard work especially if it means that other people will come to church to hear about Jesus' love. So Wednesday, we brought daddy lunch, and the boys helped move chairs, count rows, and put up curtains to set up our youth service. They worked as hard as the best workers I know with just a few breaks to play hide and seek.

Thursday, we read our story and also watched a YouTube video of the story. We worked on cutting triangles and gluing them to paper to make carrots. Three of our seeds had begun to sprout and they look like they have little tails. We worked on our 4 worksheet and I was so surprised that Silas remembered the songs for 0-3 all on his own. His memory is outstanding.

We didn't get a whole lot of activities in with this book so we are going to continue on with it this week and read even more Peter Rabbit books. I think it'll be a great week that continues to build on the previous.