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The Giant Carrot
by
Jan Peck,
Barry Root
A TALL tale about the power of teamwork When sweet Little Isabelle?s family plants a carrot seed one day, tall Papa Joe, wide Mama Bess, and strong Brother Abel all do their part. But when Little Isabelle wants to help too, Brother Abel just laughs. ?What can you do?? he asks. ?I?ll sing and dance to the carrot to make it grow,? she says. ?And come summer, we?ll have littl...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
March 1st 1998
by Dial
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Oct 08, 2012
Rachael
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The Giant Carrot, J. Peck, Grade 3, Life Cycle of a Plant, Label the Parts of a Plant, Discovery,
Part of a unit on life cycles, or simply life cycle of a plant. A great experiment to have kids start from seed and grow the plant in a clear container to actually see the carrot getting larger. Students will talk about what the plant needs to survive. Connect to self - what do you need to survive?
Connect to literacy - what happened first in the story? what happened next? could we do a retelling of...more
Part of a unit on life cycles, or simply life cycle of a plant. A great experiment to have kids start from seed and grow the plant in a clear container to actually see the carrot getting larger. Students will talk about what the plant needs to survive. Connect to self - what do you need to survive?
Connect to literacy - what happened first in the story? what happened next? could we do a retelling of...more
This would be a good book to read during a unit on plants. While reading the book, you can discuss the basic needs for a plant to grow. In this book, it talked about soil to inform students on how to plant carrots. It also discussed seeds as being an important part of growing a plant. Since this book was about growing carrots, it provided great ideas for the teacher and the students to make in the classroom after the class plants the carrots. Some examples are carrot juice, carrot stew, carrot p...more
Oct 10, 2012
Kelly Whelchel
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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Science Grade 1 Science Literature Topic: Plant growth/carrot
Use this book to teach carrot growth. Teach the growth of carrot by introducing carrot seeds and the carrot seed planted. Then have the store to read to the students. Have students fill out a graphic organizer with the four stages of carrot growth. 1. seed 2. root 3. small carrot under ground 4. full carrot under ground. Lastly have picture of the stages and have the students put in correct order.
Use this book to teach carrot growth. Teach the growth of carrot by introducing carrot seeds and the carrot seed planted. Then have the store to read to the students. Have students fill out a graphic organizer with the four stages of carrot growth. 1. seed 2. root 3. small carrot under ground 4. full carrot under ground. Lastly have picture of the stages and have the students put in correct order.
This is a fun book for second through fourth grade students to learn about plant growth and plant life cycles. In the story a family grows a giant carrot, with each member wanting to use it for a different purpose. In the end they end up growing a super giant carrot and being able to use it for what everyone wanted. You could also talk to your students about all of the different things that are needed to help a plant grow and which from the story are not.
An Appalachian re-telling of the classic Russian folklore story "The Turnip." Bright colors and a fun text make this a good read aloud for older kids. If you are good at accents, pile on your fake southern accent (unless, of course, you are from the south). I particularly love Little Isabelle, whose dancing makes the carrot grow. Barry Root's illustrations of Little Isabelle's wild dancing is what made me start reading this book in the first place.
Papa Joe, Mama Bess, Brother Abel, and Little Isabelle plant and care for a carrot plant so that when summer comes they will have carrot juice, stew, relish, and pudding. Papa tends the plant, Mama pulls weeds, Abel waters, and Isabelle sings. When Isabelle sings, they watch the plant grow and grow until it is as tall as Papa Joe. Working together to pull the carrot from the ground, they discover how the fruits of their labor have paid off!
This book could easily be developed into a science lesson as we observed in our Science methods class. Compare how to grow carrots and the book, then compare the size of the carrot versus a typical carrot. Then have students grow a carrot from seeds in the classroom. Track the amount of water and fertilizer they give the carrot and its size as it grows. Could combine this with a math lesson in graphs by tracking this growth over time.
I think this book would be great to read at the beginning of a unit in science for grades 1-3 on plant life. This book focuses on the growth of carrots. The activity could start out by looking at a carrott seed. I would ask the students to describe that seed to me. What kind of seed do you think it is? Where did the seed come from? This book is a great resource to use while growing the carrot plants in the class.
Somehow I have absolutely never heard the Russian folktale of The Giant Turnip. My students were all totally familiar with it, but I was clueless. At any rate, this is an Appalachia version of the tale. My kids and I enjoyed it ("Miz Houghton, you made that character sound so spunky!"), and it will be perfect to start off our writing unit of fiction stories where an inanimate object is a character.
The Giant Carrot
Jan Peck
Grade: 2
Content:
> Life Cycle of a Plant (Carrot)
This book is a good book to read when you are about to talk about the life cycle of plants in the environment. Throughout the process of their plants growing in the class, the students can reference this book to see what stage their plants are going through and the needs of the plant in order for it to survive.
Jan Peck
Grade: 2
Content:
> Life Cycle of a Plant (Carrot)
This book is a good book to read when you are about to talk about the life cycle of plants in the environment. Throughout the process of their plants growing in the class, the students can reference this book to see what stage their plants are going through and the needs of the plant in order for it to survive.
Author: Jan Peck
Grade Levels: 1-3 grade
Content: life cycle of a carrot, plants and what they need to grow.
This book covers the life cycle of a carrot beginning from a seed to a giant carrot. Story is written as a fiction book because the little girl believes it only need song and dance in order to grow. Each family member partakes in attending the carrot to ensure growth.
Grade Levels: 1-3 grade
Content: life cycle of a carrot, plants and what they need to grow.
This book covers the life cycle of a carrot beginning from a seed to a giant carrot. Story is written as a fiction book because the little girl believes it only need song and dance in order to grow. Each family member partakes in attending the carrot to ensure growth.
The Giant Carrot would be a great story to use for a lesson on life cycles (of plants. This book would be appropriate for grades 1-3.This book would be a great resource to use, and students could even carry out experiments to along with the book. A teacher could have students plant seeds and watch how the plant grows to show the life cycle of a plant.
Author: Jan Peck
Title: The Giant Carrot
Grade: 3rd through 5th
This literary treasure is a great science tool to teach the plant life cycle. It engages student by how large the carrot can grow (when in all actuality, a carrot could probably not grow that large),and it teaches students the purpose of different natural resources.
Title: The Giant Carrot
Grade: 3rd through 5th
This literary treasure is a great science tool to teach the plant life cycle. It engages student by how large the carrot can grow (when in all actuality, a carrot could probably not grow that large),and it teaches students the purpose of different natural resources.
The Giant Carrot book is about a farmer that plans a carrot seed and watches it go through its cycles as it forms into a gigantic carrot. This would be wonderful to read and discuss to children in kindergarten to third grade. Teachers can discuss realistic and unrealistic carrot sizes in this book and discuss the cycle of plant growth.
Grade: 2nd
This is a very classic book that not only teaches children who reads this book about the life cycle of a butterfly, but some math, and great artistic skills. This book is very illustrative and short and simple and to the point. It will be a good addition to your classroom library for young expeditionaries.
This is a very classic book that not only teaches children who reads this book about the life cycle of a butterfly, but some math, and great artistic skills. This book is very illustrative and short and simple and to the point. It will be a good addition to your classroom library for young expeditionaries.
This would be suitable to read for kindergarten up to third grade.
The topic to focus with this book is about how plants grow. There are certain requirements that plants need in order to grow, and this book talks about them.
I think this book was a pretty cute book. We can also talk about what is real and what is not real.
The topic to focus with this book is about how plants grow. There are certain requirements that plants need in order to grow, and this book talks about them.
I think this book was a pretty cute book. We can also talk about what is real and what is not real.
The Giant Carrot by Jan Peck is about a a farmer and his family who plant a carrot seed and watches it go through its cycle as it grows. This would be an excellent book to read to students from Kindergarten to third grade. Using this book, a lesson on the plant cycle could be taught. Students could plant their own carrot seed or any other plant seed and watch the phases it goes through to grow.
This book is good for a science unit on plants. The story describes the growth cycle of the carrot plant and the resources needed to help a plant grow. Students can use this book as a resource while they are growing their own plants in the classroom. I would use this book for Kindergarten-Second grade.
This is a fun book about a family that grows a giant carrot. Each member of the family wants to use it for a different purpose, and the little girl sings and dances around the carrot. You can use this book to begin a conversation about what plants really need to grow. Recommended for 1st-4th grade.
This book would be great for a 3rd grade classroom when teaching the kids about the parts of a plant. Creating a foldable, drawing and labeling what happens in each step in order for a carrot to grow and labeling the parts of the carrot would focus both on literacy and on science.
This book has a great way of illustrating the life cycle of a carrot. It would be great to use with students when learning about plants. It easily lends itself to using with an experiment. I think it would be really fun for themes. I would use this with any grade above second.
This book is for: k-5
Topic: Plant life cycles; What plants need to grow
Reflection:
This book is about teamwork and about carrot life cycles. The students can watch as a tiny carrot seed grows into a HUGE carrot because everyone did their part to take care of it.
Topic: Plant life cycles; What plants need to grow
Reflection:
This book is about teamwork and about carrot life cycles. The students can watch as a tiny carrot seed grows into a HUGE carrot because everyone did their part to take care of it.
This book is great for a life unit in science. The story goes in great detail on the growth cycle of the carrot plant and the resources needed to help a plant grow. Students can use this book as a resource while they are growing their own plants in the classroom.
Apr 19, 2012
Angela
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Grade: k-5
Topic: Plants, needs of living things
This is such a cute book about a family's determination to grow a carrot for various purposes. Their teamwork pays off when a huge carrot is pulled from the ground and provides plenty of food to go around.
Topic: Plants, needs of living things
This is such a cute book about a family's determination to grow a carrot for various purposes. Their teamwork pays off when a huge carrot is pulled from the ground and provides plenty of food to go around.
This book cleverly follows one family on a farm as they prepare and plant carrots. Of course, one of the carrots ends up being gigantic and it takes the whole family to pull it form the ground. It is a great introductory story for the plant life cycle or plants in general. This could also be a great book for cause and effect or predicting.
Grade: 2nd- life cycle
Grade: 2nd- life cycle
Get your kids to eat their carrots! Little Isabelle's dance grows the biggest carrot in the land, and gets her some sweet carrot pudding afterwards. The readers get a recipe for "Little Isabelle's Carrot Puddin' " at the end as well. Illustrations are playful, and kids just may find eating their veggies a bit less remorseful after this book.
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This book is about a family working together to grow carrot. They sing and dance to it to make it bigger. This is good story to share with children when teaching them about the life cycles of a plant. Grades 1-4
Ever wonder what it takes to grow a carrot? Well, this book gives children a step-by-step process on growing carrots...in a very humorous-imaginative way. Students will enjoy making predictions and it's a fun way to introduce the plant cycle lesson. What's best: is that there's a carrot pudding recipe in the back, yum!
What I love about this book is that not only is the story a good one, it can be easily used to create a science lesson. I would use this to work on prediction on the lifecycle of a carrot and what happens if we do certain things to it.
Apr 22, 2012
Elizabeth
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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third-grade,
second-grade,
kindergarten,
plants,
nature
This is a great book to use in all grade levels to teach about teamwork and imagination. This could also be used in a science class to teach about seeds and the life cycle of a carrot.
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