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Four Seasons Make A Year<\/a>\u00a0 <\/em>written by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Megan Halsey is narrated by a\u00a0 young girl who lives on a farm.\u00a0 The story takes the reader from the first day of spring through the first day of winter, while explaining what effect each season has on the farm.\u00a0 In the spring, the fields need to be plowed, flowers begin to bloom, and the young girl plants a sunflower seed.\u00a0 In the early summer, green sprouts appear on the field, bees and butterflies are back, and the young girl’s sunflower seed begins to grow.\u00a0 As the summer goes on the young girl and her family pick corn, squash and summer flowers to sell at their stand and her sunflower has grown taller then she is.\u00a0 When fall arrives the young girl goes back to school.\u00a0 The pumpkins change from green to orange and her sunflower is heavy with seeds.\u00a0 The leaves begin to change, the bees and the butterflies are gone and as fall continues, the girl and her family now sell pumpkins at their stand.\u00a0 As it begins to look and feel like winter, the young girl notices squirrels gathering nuts and acorns and only evergreen trees still have their branches.\u00a0 Finally winter has come and there is a big snow storm one night.\u00a0 When the young girl awakes she finds out school has been canceled for the day!\u00a0 She goes out to make snowman, ice skate on the pond, and feeds sunflower seeds that she saved to the cardinals and decides next year she will plant 2 sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections
\n<\/strong>Four Seasons Make A Year<\/em> is a great book to use to discuss the seasons and the changes they bring.\u00a0 This book could be used to discuss the changes in weather from season to season (VA SoL K.9a, 1.7a&b).\u00a0 The appearance and migration of the birds, and also the growth and changes of sunflower plant would be a good example of the effects the seasons have on living things(Va SoL 2.7a).<\/p>\n

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