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CoursesClassesLet’s Grow Literacy Outdoors Master Class
  • Welcome
    5
    • Lecture1.1
      0-1: A Welcome Note from Victoria 30 min
    • Lecture1.2
      0-2: Good Things to Know 30 min
    • Lecture1.3
      0-3: Why Literacy Outdoors? 30 min
    • Lecture1.4
      0-4: Ideas to Kick Start Your Literacy Garden 30 min
    • Lecture1.5
      0-5: Supply List for Reading, Writing, Listening, and Talking Outdoors 30 min
  • Module 1: Gardens that Feed
    5
    • Lecture2.1
      1-1: Welcome to The Gardens that Feed 30 min
    • Lecture2.2
      1-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 min
    • Lecture2.3
      1-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 min
    • Lecture2.4
      1-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 min
    • Lecture2.5
      1-5: Harvest Curriculum-on-the-Go Kits 30 min
  • Module 2: Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations that Inspire Themes
    6
    • Lecture3.1
      2-1: Welcome to Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations that Inspire Themes 30 min
    • Lecture3.2
      2-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 min
    • Lecture3.3
      2-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 min
    • Lecture3.4
      2-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 min
    • Lecture3.5
      2-5: Harvest Literacy Curriculum Kits 30 min
    • Lecture3.6
      LIVE Workshop #1
  • Module 3: Gardens that Attract Wildlife
    5
    • Lecture4.1
      3-1: Welcome The Gardens that Attract Wildlife 30 min
    • Lecture4.2
      3-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 min
    • Lecture4.3
      3-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 min
    • Lecture4.4
      3-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 min
    • Lecture4.5
      3-5: Harvest Literacy Curriculum Kits 30 min
  • Module 4: Gardens for Beauty and Art
    6
    • Lecture5.1
      4-1: Welcome to The Gardens for Beauty and Art 30 min
    • Lecture5.2
      4-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 min
    • Lecture5.3
      4-3: Plant Ideas 30 min
    • Lecture5.4
      4-4: Grow Activities 30 min
    • Lecture5.5
      4-5: Harvest Curriculum Kits 30 min
    • Lecture5.6
      LIVE Workshop #2
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      45 Comments

    1. Gina Ferreira
      June 26, 2020
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      This type of curriculum kit is so new to me, but I love it. I can picture even the youngest in my group creating a stick figure and using different materials and I can even imagine them using them for pretend play. This will be another of activity I’ll be adding to my toolbox!

    2. Yu Kwan Mok
      June 26, 2020
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      I would include play dough, twigs, leaves, pipe cleaners, feathers, yarns and plastic spoons or folks in my kit.

    3. Mary Guzman
      June 23, 2020
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      I would base my curriculum on the go based on Alice I wonderland. I would have them create themselves or alicefirst and I would carry the book with me. What I would need first would be zip up bags, pipe cleaners, yarn, google eyes, clay, tape, and felt. I would then have them gather sticks, pine needles, and leaves. I would also carry paper, crayons, and a binder to put their stories in. I would have them gather and use the zip up bags for their gathered materials. I would then have them built their character based on the question “whee would you go if you fell down a rabbit whole. Thinking of this I would give them the option to create Alice, the animals, or themselves. After that I would ask them to create an area or areas where a rabbit whole would be. They would then discuss there they would go. Thinking about setting, characters, or plot. I think it would be great idea to have questions set up. If we are reading a lengthier version of Alice in wonderland, maybe read a part of it a day as a listening option. Then develop an activity based on the chapter. I think it would be good to first do characters and then develop from that. We can also develope other fictional characters in the story or maybe have them make a new character. It would be great to see what they come up with.

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 23, 2020
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        Wow! What great ideas.

    4. Pamela Guzman
      June 23, 2020
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      This is a wonderful idea! I think creating them with sticks is cool but you can also use hay or long pieces of grass, or even corn husk which also is related to Native American dolls are made. They can create a doll using this and some yarn or pipe cleaners to attach it. You can carry modeling clay or play dough to attach as well, and gather different things for eyes, mouth etc. They can even use a nature journal to draw out what they want their dolls to look like. and what they will use.

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 23, 2020
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        πŸ™‚

    5. ANA FERNANDEZ
      June 21, 2020
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      Love the idea of doing stick people with materials that you would find on a nature walk, I can’t wait to do this with my children at the center. And having a curriculum on the go kit is something that I would love to introduce to my director and coworkers.

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 22, 2020
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        Yea!

    6. stella ortiz
      June 12, 2020
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      Wonderful idea!!!

    7. Donna Rose
      June 10, 2020
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      For my curriculum box on the Leaf Man. I would have the children man a leaf man
      Gather nature materials such as sticks and leaves.
      eyes
      material for head
      The leaves would be the clothing
      string or pipe cleaners or natural vine to hold the sticks together

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 11, 2020
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        Great!

    8. Patricia Nash
      January 2, 2020
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      My curriculum kit in this module is based on Dinosaur Garden by Lisa Donnelly. I chose this book because the next school I may be at may not have any woods around it.

      For reading- read the story of course.
      Read the names of dinosaurs you have printed out on index cards or bone-shaped
      cards.
      Read labels for plant-eaters: ferns, magnolias, broccoli, giant asparagus, ginkgoes,
      pine
      read songs on chart paper, poems too

      Writing– In journals, what do you think is in the egg?
      Write labels for plants, dinosaurs
      Draw a picture of how you would make your garden for dinosaurs
      Why do you think the dinosaurs in the book ran away after the egg hatched?
      What is the difference between a plant-eater and a meat-eater?
      Graph paper- which dinosaur do you like best?
      Is your dinosaur a carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore?

      Talking- How can you plant a dinosaur garden?
      What dinosaurs do you know about?
      What do they eat?
      How big would the garden have to be?
      What would you plant in it?

      Listening- listen to each other as you all answer the above questions. Join in.
      Listen to the story.
      Other Books- Dinosaur Roar by Paul and Henrietta Stickland
      Dinosaur Dinners by Lee Davis
      Dinosaurs by Gallimard Jeunesse
      Wee Sing Dinosaurs by Pamela Conn Beall
      Digging up Dinosaurs by Aliki
      Three Little Dinosaurs by Charles Fuge
      Patrick’s Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick
      Sammy and the Dinosaurs by Ian Whybrow
      Dinosaurs by Gail Gibbons
      Dinosaur, Dinosaur by Byron Barton

      This book would be great to read alongside hostas and ferns. Into the backpack would go:
      different dinosaur figures to play with, tape measure to measure a possible garden site, stakes to tie twine with for the garden, journals possibly shaped like an egg, seed packets, sticks for labels, pencils, markers, crayons, clipboards, graph sheet, 3 inch paper squares for graph, plastic egg, photos of the dinosaurs “hiding” among the ferns and hostas for a scavenger hunt, puppets of the dinosaurs, turkey bones that have been cleaned and sanitized, the following poem:
      I’m a mean old dinosaur, big and tall.
      Here is my tail and here is my claw.
      When I get all hungry, I just growl…
      Look out kids, I’m on the prowl!
      The kids LOVE this poem and laugh a lot when the dinosaur runs and tries to catch them. write the key vocabulary words on bone-shaped paper. Add the label for the kit to the handle and you are all set for a dinosaur adventure in the garden!

      • Victoria Hackett
        January 5, 2020
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        The detail in your planning is going to reap wonderful rewards for you. I love these ideas and am sure that teachers in this community will also be inspired by your work. Well done!

    9. Patricia Nash
      December 7, 2019
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      I’ve used the Y sticks for making musical instruments with-never thought of them as bodies and legs but now it will be part of my teaching. I do normally have an open house where I have the children and parents go from one area of the room to another to make something we will be using or to write with. Now I can have them go outside and collect some Y sticks.
      I was able to order this book from Barnes and Noble–it’s a trilogy. Should arrive next Monday. Will send a picture when I get the kit assembled.

      • Victoria Hackett
        December 7, 2019
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        Over the moon excited that you are expanding your parent visit activities to the outdoors!!! I love the stick people and how you are adding the books as accents to all your activities. You will have quite a nature-based library when you are done. Super job!

    10. Mercedes Sanchez
      November 17, 2019
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      I loved this idea.l will do a class plan activity about it.I will do tthis class plan with vegetables and fruits and then we will pretend to be one or other and then we will do a great conversation about it. And then we will talk about the important that the vegetables and fruits are.

    11. Ann Ranger
      November 11, 2019
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      My teachers are working on curriculum kits. I look forward to seeing how they incorporate these.

    12. Pamela Wesley
      November 11, 2019
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      This will be a great idea to add to the classrooms. I have never made stick people before

    13. Olivia Bean
      November 11, 2019
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      Please look at email for picture of curriculum kit!
      Thanks

    14. Kimberly Sheehan
      November 11, 2019
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      Are playground has a lot of available natural materials outside that we could hunt for to get are kits together for various art projects throughout the seasons. Thinking of different projects like the stick people will be fun to organize and see come to life.

    15. Alexandria Cicci
      November 11, 2019
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      The curriculum could consist of creating artwork from nature. For example, they could use leaves for painting or make faces. They could also use sticks to make picture frames or people.

    16. Lisette Lara
      November 11, 2019
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      One of the teachers created a scarecrow doll out of materials and the kids took turns with it on the slide carrying it up the hill and digging in the sandbox.

    17. Julia Best
      November 11, 2019
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      I can’t wait to see what creatures the children create using nature! A person, a cat.. a dog..?! It’s a nice way to see into their minds and what they are visualizing when you give them materials and see what they create.

    18. Daniel Lemke
      November 11, 2019
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      Like in the last lesson, I don’t currently have access to this, but ill make sure to post it on the Facebook group when I get a chance to take a photo of it.

    19. Brendan O'Donnell
      November 11, 2019
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      In our outdoor play area we have a good number of stumps that the children use for chairs, building, and other fun games. I am thinking that we could use them as another way to practice letters to expose them to some early literacy. The idea I have would be to hold up an uppercase letter and then the children could try and mimic the letter with the logs to make the letter.

    20. Shawna Szczechowicz
      November 11, 2019
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      I love the creative idea of using outdoor materials to create the characters. I think that is something we could utilize more of; bringing in outdoor materials to use fr any project or to contribute to our outdoor classroom.

    21. Doreen Hathaway
      November 11, 2019
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      would work great in our rock garden using a rock to start the stick figure

    22. Christina Morneau
      November 11, 2019
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      My grandchildren and I walk in the woods to find walking sticks and decorate them for gifts

    23. Aimee Provencher
      November 11, 2019
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      This is great! I love how inexpensive and easy these crafts are!

    24. Kyle Silva
      November 11, 2019
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      Look forward to teaching this lesson in our outdoor space.

    25. Zachary Liriano
      November 11, 2019
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      We could also try to model animals and pets for the kids.

    26. Madeleine Law
      November 11, 2019
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      I am a support educator who floats from classroom to classroom to help with the kids. The educators I work with each have backpacks in their classroom with supplies for the children to use in outdoor learning. I may bring a few things with me to contribute to their supplies and discuss what supplies they already have so I know what I am working with when it is time for outdoor play.

    27. Heather LeMay
      November 11, 2019
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      I think that my kids would really like the idea of making stick figures. They all love playing with sticks on our playground as it is, so the idea of transforming them into figures would be great.

    28. Bonnie Ellard
      November 11, 2019
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      The stick people idea is awesome my young kids will love this. Having the children gather materials will make it even more fun !!

    29. Emily Walsh
      November 11, 2019
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      Our kids love putting sticks in their mouths; we definitely have a lot of sticks! We could definitely put our sticks to better use!

    30. KATHLEEN CARROLL
      November 11, 2019
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      We are discussing body parts with the toddlers so it would be nice to see what they were capable of doing with sticks.

    31. Hyacinth Griffin
      November 11, 2019
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      i like the idea of stick people

    32. Halto
      March 26, 2018
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      Super fun! I remember my son naming a favorite walking path off a trail near our home “The Y trail” because he found a Y shaped twig on it. Children love making these connections and do so naturally when free to explore.

      • Victoria Hackett
        March 26, 2018
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        Fun! πŸ™‚ Love when they see the world a bit differently than we do.

    33. jrobins
      March 13, 2018
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      We do a lot with sticks in September, we collect them to make pictures, letters, we sort them, etc. We also do clothing in the fall. We make people usually using Popsicle sticks, clothespins, different fabric scraps, foam, googly eyes and other random bits and pieces we find. Next year we’ll add sticks the children have collected. Normally we invite the parents to join us for this activity, I’m thinking it would be fun to send the parents outside with their children to collect materials to use instead of just us proving everything ready to go.

      • Victoria Hackett
        March 13, 2018
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        Fabulous! I love the idea of sending the children outdoors with their parents to collect sticks. Could you do the entire activity outdoors? Some food for thought. πŸ™‚

    34. psawyer
      March 10, 2018
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      At the moment, we have quite a lot of snow cover, making it difficult to find a lot of natural materials. On the other hand, this last storm took down many many trees and parts of trees. I will be checking around school to see what can be scavenged. Haven’t seen the school grounds as yet, as the storm knocked out the power and school was closed Thursday and Friday!! That has never happened before in all the years I’ve been working here! I’ll keep you posted on the progress we make in collecting parts, putting together an On-the-Go kit, and then building our stick people. The study that my class is currently focused on is CLOTHING, and we have a large collection of fabric scraps on hand, a wide variety of textures and colors, so you can be sure that our characters will be fabulously dressed!

      • Victoria Hackett
        March 10, 2018
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        Great idea to scavenge for sticks and branches after the storm! I usually recommend teachers do this before winter–but this winter is VERY different. I know teachers that are taking advantage of all the trees down and opportunities to add stumps to their outdoor landscape. I can’t wait to hear (see) your stick characters and learn how you bring all this together in your Curriculum-on-the-go Kit. Very exciting.

    35. calamityjayne85
      March 5, 2018
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      Love the stick people. Going to bring supplies in we gather together out in the woods and have class make their own.

      • Victoria Hackett
        March 5, 2018
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        Can’t wait to see the pictures. I love this activity as the stick characters can be any size…even life-size.

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