the little red hen

We read "The Little Red Hen".  My kids are very familiar with the gardening/growing aspect of the story.  And they are familiar with the baking aspect of the story.  But what they wanted to know was how something that grew in the "garden" was made into bread.  So I got out the wheat berries.  As the wheat berries were ground out, they immediately recognized it as flour.  Then the story made sense to them.  I love helping them make connections and understand things.  They are just sponges ready to soak up information.  I love it!