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Yum! Mmmm! Que Rico! Americas' Sproutings

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Already beginning in Kindergarten, content standards across the nation include economics, and the topic of natural resources is usually one of the first that students learn. What better way to introduce children to natural resources than this delightful book, with its interesting discussions, vivid illustrations, multicultural characters, and illuminating facts. The reader learns how chocolate is made, how to harvest pecans, the importance of potatoes as an international food source, the reason why tomatoes are considered a vegetable, where papayas come from, and why the United States is the world's largest consumer of vanilla. While older children may be more drawn to the fact-filled backgrounds of these food items, readers of all ages will appreciate the accompanying haiku poetry. At first glance this book appears to be about food, but lurking within are valuable economics lessons about natural resources, consumers, producers, and international trade.

This book is a great addition to the Language Arts classroom! Very bright and colorful and appealing to kiddos. Traditional 5-7-5 haikus about grown products from the Americas. Great information about each product. Kids will definitely appreciate a new, fun way to read non-fiction.

Use to teach main idea, author's purpose, text structure. Cross-curricular - natural resources, Americas, culture, fruits and vegetables.

Bluebonnet nominee 2009-2010.

linguists everywhere disagree with mixing languages while speaking or reading to a child. This book does just that. I ended up donating it to the library.