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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 Inspired by Themes 5
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2-1: Welcome to The Gardens Inspired by 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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Every year my brother brings me a stack of seed and bulb catalogs (after he has thoroughly perused them of course, and has chosen and ordered what he plans to grow come spring). We usually put them in the art area for the kids to access as they choose. They usually look through the pages for a week or two, then start cutting them up for collage. This may be the year when we actually utilize those catalogs as they were meant to be used! We may not be able to plant an actual rainbow garden, but I think we could plan out a large, colorful flower bed on paper, using pictures from the catalogs. Not just Art (and Beauty!) but some sorting/matching/classifying/ordering & sequencing MATH as well!
And as for this wonderful book, we have read it every year as Spring arrives in our neighborhood, and we sometimes carry it with us when we take a walk outside around our little pond, looking for the new colors popping up all over. When we see a plant, tree, or bush with buds growing, we predict what color we think the blooms might be (this is one place where the clipboards come in handy — and we have sometimes even “tagged” the tree or bush for future reference), and when we have had a working camera at our disposal, we document everything we see. We could make our own Rainbow book!
I use this book every year, but have never extended it past talking about bulbs. I am wondering if we could plant a rainbow garden, label the color areas with signs, and wait for blooms. Then on a snowy day in winter, to keep the interest alive, have children “plant” artificial flowers in the snow in each color area.
Love how you are extending the garden through the seasons. This is the beauty of signs as well. They provide a foundation to work from. 🙂
This book makes me want to do the science experiment where you put the carnation or piece of celery in cups with different colored water and watch as the color creeps up into the flower and celery.
What a great idea!
Looking for flowers of each color in our garden.
Looking for flowers from our garden that are in the book.
Drawing the flowers in the garden.
Examining seeds and bulbs.
Grow a bulb garden where you can watch the roots and plant emerge.
When I was starting the Cove School Children’s Garden, I found myself eager to get all the classes outdoors doing something. Planting bulbs were the easiest activities to do. They especially loved cutting open a bulb and seeing the inside. Kinda neat! I remember taking my young kids (at the time) to school one day in spring and getting goosebumps seeing all the flowers everywhere! Part of the beauty was the random nature of it all. Enjoy!