Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Schema: soup, favorite vegetables, gardening, tools
Text-to-Self Connections: bring fresh or canned samples of green beans, green peas, corn, squash, and carrots to show. Open them or mix them if fresh in a pot to cook. Usually the school cafeteria has soup everyday so it might work to get some already made from there for a little sampling after reading.
Cause and Effect: Because we plant seeds and care for them, the effect is that we have fresh vegetables for soup.
Sequencing: If we wanted to grow our own soup, what order would be the way to do it?
Senses: Think about the five senses and see which ones we use when we plant, tend, wash, cook, and eat our vegetables.
Inference: Would these vegetables grow in the snow? There’s not any snow in the book. What season do you infer it is when the vegetables are growing?
Synthesis: I am synthesizing that it would be fun to make soup from growing the vegetables. I am synthesizing that some people have places that they can grow their own food.
Text-to-text connections: Grandma Lena’s Big Ol’ Turnip by Hester
