GROWING
The flour that makes the bread you toast, or the breakfast cereal you
eat, comes from wheat. Wheat plants are grown from seeds, which are
planted in the ground by the farmer.
Like you, a seed needs things to help it grow. Look at these
pictures.
A farmer plants the seed
The seed grows in the soil.
Rain gives the seed water.
The seed needs sunshine to grow.
The seed grows into a wheat plant.
The farmer toils all day long
(act weary)
To grow the wheat that makes me strong
(flex muscles)
The rain falls down to swell the grain
(pitter, patter action with the hands)
The sun comes out to warm again
(big circle of arms)
Like me - the wheat just grows and grows!
(crouch down small, then slowly grow to standing)
I can stretch up high! I can touch my toes!
(stretch high, then bend to touch toes)
The wheat plant contains grains of wheat. One grain can make about
20,000 very, very tiny particles of flour. Flour is used to make bread.
