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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 5
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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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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 5
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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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I forgot to add a favorite poem:
I am a pumpkin, big and round
I start out as a seed in the ground.
Next I grow a vine, my, I look fine.
Out pops a blossom, white and yellow
that will turn into a green little fellow.
Let him sit on the ground until
he turns big, yellow, and round.
Love this…I have not seen it before. Thanks for sharing.
I made 5 cubes out of orange juice boxes. Each of the six sides has a different nursery rhyme on it so we learn 30 rhymes each year. The children love to toss these cubes to see which rhyme comes up for them to participate in. Their favorite each year is Jack Be Nimble because they get to jump over a toy. I’m a firm believer that nursery rhymes, poetry, help children to become great readers because of the repetition, rhythm, and just plain fun words. I have had kindergarteners write poems once the “light bulb” went off in their heads. They loved it. I do believe preschoolers would love to
create poems too, once they get the hang of it.
Oh my goodness…I love the idea of using 5 cubes for nursery rhymes. I may have to borrow this idea from you. Also thrilled that you found a way to recycle…take it all outside, add a few physical activities…and whola! Great job!
My favorite poem is The garden:
This is my garden, l will plant it with care .
Here are the seeds l will plant in there.
The sun will shine,
The rain will fall,
The seeds will sprout and grow up tall.
My favorite poem is Planting by Dick Wilmes. I cannot write a poem while using one of these formats with my children and share it in the comments. This experience was like for me is like when you do something nice and gentle it becomes amazing on what you are doing and this poem can turn into a storybook with the children on learning how to grow a plant. One page each can have one line each to create this poem and turn into a book to read for them.
Planting by Dick Wilmes:
I took a little seed one day
About a month ago.
I put it in a pot of dirt,
In hopes that it would grow.
I poured a little water
To make the soil right.
I set the pot upon the sill,
Where the sun would give it light.
I checked the pot most every day,
And turned it once or twice.
With a little care and water
I helped it grow so nice.
Dick Wilmes
This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing and spelling it out. I am sure others will love it too. 🙂
I haven’t had any experience with poems with preschool. Maybe you have ideas for what I could use for poems in the classroom
I absolutely LOVE this idea! Thrilled that you are thinking about Winer activities.
Just find poems you enjoy and share them. Keep it simple.
My favorite poem is called, ” Stopping by the woods on snowy evening” by Robert Frost. I think with this poem and with my preschoolers I would definitely do a poem walk during the winter and have the students look for different parts of winter outside.
Lov this idea.
Alexandria and I would like to create our own poem with our classroom about Caterpillars. We could tie it into the story the hungry Caterpillar and possibly get a butterfly kit. When we watch caterpillars transform into butterfly’s and then let them fly away once they come out of their cocoons. It would be interesting to base an entire theme off of this and create our own poems in the process.
Great ideas!
Im not much of a poet but will try to use a song like 5 speckle frogs sitting on a speckle log… and recreate the song with log and 5 stuff animals.
Sounds fun!
I have never been a fan of poetry. I don’t know why but it was just never intriguing to me. However the idea of a little rhyming poem about nature for the kids to have is a wonderful idea. I mean if you think about it, most of the children’s books nowadays are short and rhyme. These could potentially be considered a poem. I believe the kids would enjoy the poem about nature.
YES!!! This this way if the idea of poetry doesn’t turn you on.
I have never really indugled in the area of poetry personally or know how I would introduce its concepts to a class of 5-6 year old students. Has anyone else had any success in it for them to take anything positive or different from the expirience?
Good question. Keep an eye out on the reply.
Ahhh, this just reminded me of story stones! Collect a bunch of smaller rocks, paint various items on them, and use them to create a story. You could easily bring this bag of rocks outdoors. I have a preschool class so using images for them to tell a story all together is a great tool for us.
Awesome! I love when things spark excitement
This actually inspired me to have the kids learn about writing Haiku’s.
Perfect!
I have so many favorite children’s poems I can’t think of one off the top of my head! We could definitely create a class poem (preferably an acrostic) after an observation.
Worms
W – wriggly
O – outdoors
R – really slimey
M – muddy
I’m guessing the children in my class might write something like this.
LOVE!!!! Great ideas here!
I have never been huge into poetry and don’t have a favorite poem or format. I think this one may be a challenge for me. I may have to do additional research about poems and try to find fun ways to incorporate them with my children. The last thing they want is to learn more after they were just in school for 6 hours and then come to after school and “learn” more. So framing it in a way of them teaching me about poems and having a nature theme may be more fun for both of us.
Playful learning is the name of the game!
My age group of toddlers are too young for poems. Maybe itsy bitsy spider. Preparing children for spring and starting a garden is exciting.
Playful finger plays, songs can be considered a form of poetry. Young children love rhyming.
Our class might be a little too young for this
Think finger plays.
poetry and rhyming books are my favorite to read …I received where the sidewalk ends from a former coworker as a parting gift … I love dr. seuss but hmm don’t think he has a nature book lol
Great!
“It looks appetizing. It snows softly. And gently” is a haiku by japanese poet Kobayashi Issa. I like it because it is short and simple yet speaks so well to our fascination with winter. I believe young children could connect to it easily and we could make an activity of catching snowflakes on tongues and playing with the texture of snow in a sensory bin.
Love this simplicity of this. You are not tripping over the word “poetry”. Keeping it simple as an accent to a larger activity. Great job.
My favorite style of poems have always been Haiku, as they were easy to comprehend and help me learn syllable count and line structure. I really like the example you provided which was the number-adjective-alliteration-object.
Super! Thanks for the feedback!
A lot of my children enjoy writing acrostic poems. I’m sure they would absolutely love to create acrostic poems of different animals/things outside in the playground.
Many of our infant-level nature books in our classroom are rhyming (baby poetry!), and that rhythm helps to keep our kiddos more interested in the subject matter.
love these ideas for older children
I love this idea of creating poetry by describing the wildlife.
I am not sure if my kids are able to comprehend the idea of poetry. So it would have to be something very simple with a lot of rhyming to keep them engaged.
YES!!!
Listening to poetry is all about learning and maybe they recall something new.
Great idea to change it up!
I love poems and I feel they are such an important part of learning to read. Even the toddlers can repeat certain lines. They all seem to enjoy how they sound just like music. I love Shel Silverstein and “skin stealer'” is one of my favorites but many of his works the kids enjoy hearing
Great resource! Thank you!
Informing our children what type of bugs we have outside would be so fun. We could show them pictures of the bugs then go have them find one themselves.
Would probably use pictures from different books and only sight words Have children draw pictures and share story about picture with everyone
Wonderful ideas!
I’m also looking for some suggestions on ways to explain or define the idea of “poetry” or “poems” to preschoolers. We have read poetry together, and I have identified it as such, but I don’t think that they get it. The 4s and 5s are beginning to catch on to rhyming, but of course, not everything that rhymes is a poem and vice-versa. How have other teachers here introduced Poetry to your kiddos? Do you think they just innately catch on by being immersed in it?
This is such a great question. I will make sure I write a post about it and add it to the Facebook page.
The playgrounds are finally snow-free, and we are looking forward to finally being able to spend some quality time outdoors! In addition, our program is sending classrooms to participate in a local offering where their nature educators are going to lead the kids in some activities around “Looking for Spring.” We are going on April 4th; this may be our class’ first opportunity to see What’s Under a Log. I’ll let you know what we find. I asked my little guys what they thought they might find if they looked under a log, but most of them do not have any experience with the idea, so there weren’t a lot of satisfactory responses. Several of them were hoping for dinosaurs… and the rest kept referencing the animals from The Mitten. (We just finished a week-long compare and contrast of multiple versions of The Mitten and similar stories, including the Jan Brett and Alvin Tresselt versions, as well as a book called The Elf’s Hat with amusing illustrations.)
My favorite poem is Nature’s First Green is gold by Robert Frost.
I think this will be really easy to get children to create poems using these examples.
If you create any new poems with your kids…please post. I took a stab at it and it was fun.