4th Grade Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus week of April 27

Hello, everybody!  I heard that you've been studying oceans 🌊and deserts 🌵 .  Did you know that we have deserts right here in the United States?  You've probably heard about the Sahara Desert in Africa, the Arabian Desert on the Arabian peninsula in Asia, maybe even the Gobi Desert in China, but did you know the LARGEST desert in the world is in Antarctica!  Yes, really!  But today, I'd like for you to hear a story about a cactus 🌵 that grows ONLY in the American desert called the Sonoran Desert.  The desert is out west in Arizona and California, and if you want to see the giant, enormous, huge, gigantic,  mammoth, colossal, massive, monstrous (you get the idea) Saguaro cactus, well, you can do that by taking a Reading Rainbow🌈 field trip with LaVar Burton by clicking right here:        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OSbJLRmudY  You might picture this in your mind:  the largest Saguaro cactus on record was 78 feet tall, the size of 14 grown men standing on each other's shoulders.  Whoa!  Sorry to say it toppled over during a windstorm about 30 years ago. Oops!  Enjoy the Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus by Barbara Bash by watching the Reading Rainbow 🌈 video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OSbJLRmudY

Enjoy your virtual field trip!  🌵