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Welcome 5
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0-1: A Welcome Note from Victoria 30 minLecture1.1
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0-2: Good Things to Know 30 minLecture1.2
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0-3: Why Literacy Outdoors? 30 minLecture1.3
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0-4: Ideas to Kick Start Your Literacy Garden 30 minLecture1.4
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0-5: Supply List for Reading, Writing, Listening, and Talking Outdoors 30 minLecture1.5
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Module 1: Gardens that Feed 5
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1-1: Welcome to The Gardens that Feed 30 minLecture2.1
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1-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 minLecture2.2
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1-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 minLecture2.3
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1-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 minLecture2.4
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1-5: Harvest Curriculum-on-the-Go Kits 30 minLecture2.5
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Module 2: Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations that Inspire Themes 6
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2-1: Welcome to Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations that Inspire Themes 30 minLecture3.1
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2-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 minLecture3.2
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2-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 minLecture3.3
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2-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 minLecture3.4
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2-5: Harvest Literacy Curriculum Kits 30 minLecture3.5
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LIVE Workshop #1Lecture3.6
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Module 3: Gardens that Attract Wildlife 5
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3-1: Welcome The Gardens that Attract Wildlife 30 minLecture4.1
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3-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 minLecture4.2
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3-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 minLecture4.3
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3-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 minLecture4.4
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3-5: Harvest Literacy Curriculum Kits 30 minLecture4.5
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Module 4: Gardens for Beauty and Art 6
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4-1: Welcome to The Gardens for Beauty and Art 30 minLecture5.1
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4-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 minLecture5.2
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4-3: Plant Ideas 30 minLecture5.3
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4-4: Grow Activities 30 minLecture5.4
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4-5: Harvest Curriculum Kits 30 minLecture5.5
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LIVE Workshop #2Lecture5.6
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I think as educators many of us use the web concept regularly, this was layed out in a fun way and gave me some great new ideas. I will have to adapt a bit for the age group I work with but it will work.
Reading: repeating vocabs, color words, 5 senses words
Talking: Time order, planting steps and process
Listening: sounds made during story reading, rhymes
Writing: Numbers, letters, drawing pictures, using different art medium or loose parts to form words or pictures
I can try to use this with my 2.9-3.9 but it would be a good idea for my coworkers that work with the older age group of 3.9-5. It would be a good circle time activity for them to do with the children.
Book Inspiration: A School In A Garden by Sara Flannery
Reading: Read and Explain benefits of growing a garden that feeds
Listening: Explain Sara Flannery reason behind the title: A School In A Garden
Taking: Discuss seeds/plants grown in each season and why?
Writing: Keep a Journal to depict: Plants grown by seasons, caring for the garden, reaping and eating
Awesome!
this a great activity for older kids , since I work with infants. I would have to change it a little bit .
For this book we can read about different vegetables or different garden beds to relate to the peas. We can then explain why some plants are different or why some plants grew and others didn’t. We can also talk about what ca we use as a recycled object to work as a trellis. We can talk about what plants need, who contributes to the plant cycle (pollinators), we can make an observation journal on what each plant looks like, we can paint what we see, or we can make a garden story.
Great!
There are great ideas here! I think that we can help children use their observational skills by letting them make their own pea plant using cups or what’s available to them you can even give them different recyclable containers that they can be able to use, then over time they can hypothesis how long it will take the pea plant to grow in a journal and draw out or write down their own observations as the pea plant grows over time. Here they can discuss not only the plants needs as well as the parts of plants and how they work together to function as a whole plant. You can go on talk about compost, what it is and further enhance it by making connections to how compost is not the only thing that helps things grow but things that are beneficial “up in the garden and down in the dirt” which is a another book reference. Not only discussing about the benefits of fertilizing but the benefits of good insects.
Terrific!!
To enhance what the children are learning about planting I would use clear bags with a clear jell (can’t remember its name) inside and a few seeds inside. These bags can be hung on the window and the children can see the seed sprouting roots as well as the initial stages of growth upward. They would be able to describe what is happening to the seeds using their words and drawing. We could talk about what we think is happening to the seeds planted in the soil.
I could find garden songs about planting and gardens
Finding simple recipes to make with the vegetables after they are harvested
talk about animals that would like to eat from our garden
Great ideas! Keep up the great work.
Using the story we would weave the concepts into the different learning centers with a focus on planting peas. During this process we would use the topics of the story to guide discussions and inquiries. Before planting we would discuss some of what worked and didn’t work for planting peas. Maybe start an experiment with soaking seeds and not soaking and see if the results are similar or different to the result in the story. Also, creating a farmers market or stand in dramatic play to extend the story topics into growing, delivering, buying and selling crops.
This would include writing opportunities for store signs, menus etc as wll as listening and speaking opportunities through role play.
So fun!
Awesome!
It looks like I did this activity in the last post. I get excited when I come across a great book to share with the kids that my mind just goes in different directions on what activities to do with the kids.
Should I relist my ideas here?
Thrilled that your ideas are sparking! I love that feeling too. No need to relist your ideas here. Only new ones. Great job!
We can read a story about garden, to plant and grow vegetables.We can pretend to be vegetables who ask and answer.The children can choose their favorite vegetables and we can writing and reading about it.We also can plan an activity about grow a special vegetable.
Yea!
Reading – She wants to make her own garden with plants, beautiful flowers, or both.
Listening – She loves to garden and she decides what type of plants she wants to grow with seeds.
Book Inspiration – Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn.
Writing – Making your own book or paper with any designs and plants/flowers that you want to put on it to make it beautiful just the way you want it.
Talking – What does he/she loves to do outdoors while gardening.
This is fantastic!!! Great job!
I can’t print out these, because I’m using my phone. I like the ideas though.
Great job!
Perhaps there could be a discussion on some of the challenges in growing a garden to feed as presented by the book or from outside knowledge, and what can be done to mitigate potential issues.
Great idea!!! Something to bring to the Zoom workshop calls.
For the
Reading section -I would talk about peas with them. That is probably it for this section since my age group can’t really read yet.
Listen- For this section I would have my kids listen to the story again. I would make them listen to the sound of snap peas.
Write- Have the children draw with green on paper and have them possibly draw circles if they can. Show them that peas are little so you would draw them little.
Talking- ask them if they like peas and have them taste them and see if they like them or not. Take a class vote.
I would love to do a gathering of vegetables and have a tasting activity and then make a salad for lunch with the kids.
I like using the Web forms, I tend to make my own webs and down them to my room.
Hmm, this has me thinking about doing an author study. How fun would it be for children to “hear” back from an author. Whether it is a phone call, email or letter in the mail.
This made me so excited. I think it would be fun for the kids too!
Some additional ideas that you can add are finding outside sources about peas. You can read and talk about those. With the older kids you can compare the two or three books or idea talked about.
Our after school program is limited on time, we are open for 5 hours after school for the kids. We have snack, homework, and outside time that cannot be negotiated. One way we could incorporate this is through our club time. we could have an Outdoor classroom club that each week touched upon reading writing, talking, and listening. Then it could go into extension activities of applying what they learn to gardens and the outdoor space.
I Really like the idea of these worksheets. I feel like this could be incorporated into other forms of creative based learning…such as art…or even a dream journal exercise that incorporate outdoor, and literacy based learning.
The children in my classroom are to young be doing those worksheets. They are just starting to learn how to read and write. In our classroom we would have to adapt another way that they can all do.Maybe by drawing pictures instead or something i can model for them first or that we could all work on as a whole class. We would have to get creative.
The worksheets are for your planning….not for the kids.
For our classroom I would be interested in using a similarly styled worksheet but use a more visual and manipulative approach for the students to use on their own. For instance, putting out the sheets and having, in small groups, the students pick a vegetable/fruit based book and as we read through the book see if they can recognize any of the fruits/vegetables. For the ones that they do identify I could provide clip arts of those plants for the students to glue or cut out and glue to the sheet inside the different circles. Just an idea but one I think my students would enjoy doing, they just love anything to do with using their hands and gluing things down to color afterward.
These worksheet are extremely helpful with older children. However, again I find it difficult to use with my group of children. We would need to adapt them in a way that they could understand them. Such as use more pictures, colors and simplifying the concepts on different worksheets or even crating a number posters, one for each concept. The simpler the better.
Use the worksheets for YOUR planning. You don’t have to use them with the kids unless you want to.
Book is to complex for young toddlers. Gives me ideas to look for more appropriate books or songs.
I also agree with Calamityjayne.
cannot print out web but I would modify a web using the carrot seed book ..
Working with toddlers, I would make the garden sensory. We feel the leaves some are soft some are dry or smooth. We look at the colors and gather other things from nature. We gather on a parachute outside.
I like this idea. It really gives you a way to break down the story to gear it toward the age level that you are working with.
This is suck a wonderful idea for older children. I have all infants
Reading: a story about the process of seeds being planted and growing
Writing: designing and coloring their own gardens or copying letters to form vegetable names (the children I work with are still learning how to write)
Listening: Listening to the process of how a seed grows into a plant being explained.
Talking: talking about the different stages and maybe trying to put them in order on a velcro diagram.
I love how each piece of this lesson is thought out so that the children aren’t even realizing that they are doing literacy based things throughout. I would love to end it with some sort of “feast” the children can bring their peas to, and collectively talk about the process together
When teaching with this idea web I might include another section for drawing. I have a few kids at the program who are more art focused and gravitate more to the sketching and illustration side of learning.
Having hands-on vegetables, planting tools, soil, and books paper and crayons to draw what garden might look like
Reading old stories about harvest and ancient legends should be a good way to adapt history and story telling. Gardens and growing food is a very old practice.
Doing worksheets with our toddlers won’t work, but we can adapt it to their age
The children I have would not be able to do this as they are all under 2. But, it’s things we can discuss during circle time. We can talk about seed packets and planting them. Watch them grow and talk about them.
I like this, but it won’t work for what I will do. However, I could have similar worksheets like this for parents who want to access them online and then bring the kids for a play date. I can also keep this in mind if we want to bring in younger groups in the summer.
I like how you are adapting the content to for your Outdoor Classroom. I love the idea of providing an educational page for parents and families that would prompt them to come visit the Farm. You could offer special themed programs over the summer. A great way to showcase the farm too. Great ideas!
Reading-Discuss peas, trellises, explore plant growth stages (plant seeds in a plastic bag and paper towel to watch growth.)
Listen- have children retell the story, predict how a trellis works, add bells to hear when the wind blows.
Write-have children draw trellises and then build them from natural materials (sticks, branches, etc…) Draw peas, read more books about peas.
Talking- Describe peas (color, shape, texture, taste) look at real peas in the pod and shell them, describe what the find in the pod. Count and graph the number of peas in a pod.
Fabulous ideas! All before Spring too! Good luck!Can’t wait to see the pictures.
I really like your ideas, calamityjayne85 (sorry, I don’t think I know your actual name — perhaps I’ll check on the Facebook page??). I don’t think I could put it any better!!
Pat