Miguel's latest fascination is George Washington Carver. We've been reading a book about him. I always thought of him as just the person that invented peanut butter. Did you know that peanut butter came out of his efforts to promote crop rotation? Peanuts fix the nitrogen in soil for growing better cotton. The problem was, no one liked peanuts; they were used mostly in animal feed. So he invented peanut butter, along with other things, to make peanuts more popular so that farmers would grow them.
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I'm really enjoying being learning about things by following Miguel's interests. My knowledge of the Titanic has expanded 100-fold since the day he saw his friend Levar Burton read a book about it on Reading Rainbow (OPB, 3 p.m. weekdays). I'll never forget that evening when he told us about it while he was in the bathtub: "There was a big ship called the Titanic, and it sank, and many people died."
Happy Thursday!
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