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Welcome
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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67 Comments
I have no one to do these lessons with yet. But I love all of the ideas from others especially the idea of using a journal and adding color learning by planting a rainbow. Great inspiration from everyone!
Using the book to make a lesson on outdoor learning is exciting. Teachers can make use of the color concept to run a watercolor experiment on flower petals, using different parts of the flowers to make children’s names, help to grow different flowers in the garden.
I think that we incorporate color learning with this book. it’s also a great book to illustrate the lifecycle of a plant or even what do plants need to live. How are they the same as we are? Why is it important to have all types of plant? I think that teaching children about all types of plants is very important. Though we don’t have a flower garden. We do teach the kids about flowers through songs such as the parts of a sunflower, farmers plants the seeds, and even yoga by using the parts of our body as flower parts.
Terrific!
I really think this a great book to start a garden of beauty. I can adapt it by asking questions that get them thinking about what the book is going to be about like what does it mean to plant a rainbow. How are we going to plant it, what do we need? What kinds of seeds will we need and what are the plants needs? I would also as it goes along relate it to the plant parts and what they do, the plants life cycle. Also getting them to think about the plants themselves like like what do they see growing identifying the, and asking them what else can we grow that’s that color, in relation to garden that feeds. I think letting them know the different types of seeds, a great book is a suitcase for seeds, and letting them know that seeds can be different, for example a bulb or a pea etc things like that. Letting them explore this and seeing where different seeds com from is also a great idea.
Fantastic reflections!
Some extension activities that I would do with the children are fork painting/printing rainbow of tulips. Using different colored cupcake liners to make a rainbow garden of flowers. pictures of different colored flowers as well as a rainbow of vegetables that can be harvested from the garden-this is a classification and color identity activity. turn the dramatic play area into a flower shop.
While we walk we talk about the flowers and colors in everyone’s yards
I always point out the first spring flowers and their beautiful colors as a sign that the seasons are changing.
Awesome!
We have done this and created great writing prompts for our nature journals using similar guiding questions that you have listed above. We have also used this story to inspire art using collage materials found in nature to create our very own rainbows. I love seeing all of the different perspectives of rainbow art.
Awesome!
what a great book !!! so colorful and great way to use your imagination!!!and do great outdoor planting activities with the kids
Great!
This has been a favorite story and author of mine for a very long time. I like the way she labels the items in her books and her use of color is amazing and enticing to children. The kids just love her books. I have also had the kids make their own versions of this book using the layer method of the pages towards the end of the book. Great selection!
I love the activity that you add to these books providing wonderful extensions for learning. Awesome!
Great story.I think we can read it for fall too.We have fall flowers too and we can teach them the leaves colors with this great story. How all the colors are organized, it is fantastic to teach children with this very good story
Great ideas! Keep them coming!
I like this book. It was beautiful and it has alot of colors on it. They organize nice and neatly to tell which color is which.
I think the names of these flowers are Roses, Sunflowers, Diasys, Lavendar, Phlox, Morning Glory, Zinnia, Aster, Cornflower, Marigold, and Blossms.
The mom and daughter plants garden every year. Yes they plant a rainbow. The bulbs they do plant are they spourt them and the types are Tulip, Daffooil, Hyacnth, and Crocus. They need for to put each one on the ground to organize by color of which grows into and also the need alot of garden stuff like pots, wagon, and stick names to put each pot of one plant. They do order the seeds every winter by getting them from catalogs and wait for them all long. Again from a Catalog. They need to grow by soiling the seeds. We would plant our rainbow garden out of the plants in soil on the ground. The wagon has each pot of one flower each to grow and it has sticks with each one name of seed that is in one flower pot. It would be in our wagon is our flower stuff to build a beautiful flower and sent them to the garden center to select some seedlings. The colors are in the garden are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple and in the rainbow they are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
I did adapt this book or lesson to my Outdoor Classroom by colors that kids can learn and how they can remember their colors.
Great ideas all around! Keep up the fabulous work!
An arts & crafts ideas for the winter months that we could do is using colored papers and scissors to make our own bouquet or at least a collage of different flowers of different shapes and colors.
Great fun! Paper play is so much fun. Older kids also love Origami.
I would have pics of the flowers and plants that are in the book in the classroom I would have real flowers that are going to grow outside in the classroom. I would bring in the seedlings or the seeds that are in the book and then we would bring them out to our gardens and then we would watch all season as they grow.
Great ideas! Keep em coming!
I have not adapted this book to a lesson or my outdoor classroom but I would love to adapt it to my preschool classroom. One way that I can adapt this book is by teaching my students about all the different colors in the rainbow. Have the students paint or draw with the different type of colors. Show and tell to the class the different types of plants and flowers and ask them what colors they are and make sure they identify the right color with each plant and flower.
Awesome!
I wonder if we could incorporate the idea from earlier in this course of if you could be named after a flower what would it be? I could pose this question to our class and then ask about the colors of that flower, is it their favorite color? From there based on responses we could expand on parts of a flower, are they the same parts as other plants that we have seen or learned about. Additionally, using the flower beds outside our classroom during the spring time we could ask what are the different colors of flowers that they have seen in our own gardens.
Brilliant ideas are flowing. Great job stringing in activities from earlier in the course. Keep up the great work.
Ive use this book for our planting theme and the children enjoy the colors and identify flowers.
The idea of creating a “rainbow” in the garden is wonderful for younger children. These children are just now learning their colors and the colors of the rainbow. Being able to plant flowers and food to creat a rainbow will help them understand the colors better then by looking at a sheet of paper or listening to a song. Instead they will be able to touch the colors.
Yes. Making it real is the best!
I would first want to take a walk around the school area and look at gardens ..what are your favorite flowers etc.. then maybe plant some inside to later bring outside
Yes!! Do both!
I believe this would be a good read for the younger kids or infants.
Yea!!!!
Alexandria and I found this story very cool. It is really age appropriate for our kids so it is kind of perfect. We like how the story explained how the flowers grow over time and can look like a rainbow. We would like to read this book with our class in the spring before we start our own garden to help the children understand the process of gardening.
Can’t wait til Spring!
We have no color in our outdoor classroom besides green and brown. I think researching flowers and plants of all colors and planting the rainbow with our children will add a lot of color to our outdoor classroom.
Great observation!
Planting a Rainbow is the perfect book to explain beauty in art. I would get flowers in each of the colors mentioned in the book; red, orange, yellow, green, violet and blue and have the children plant them in any order that they would like. It would create a rainbow, even if it was an abstract one.
Planting bulbs every year is also a really fun way to add color. Maybe on parts of the hill.
Starting with colors with young toddlers. Matching colors to nature. Staying with dirt and sand. Moving to grass and plants.
Awesome!
Gardening catalogs could be collected and pictures of bulbs, seeds, flowers, etc. cut out to make collages. An opportunity for the children to design and make their own rainbow gardens!
Brilliant! A great activity to do in the winter.
I really enjoyed this book. The older children could extend this indoors with technology. They could research the different colored flowers and how each flower needs their habitat to be in order to live, etc. The children could go as far as figuring out which plants could coexist together, and create their garden that way.
Great thinking of adapting the book and ideas to older kids.
I like the idea of having the kids learn what seeds and bulbs produce which flowers. I think most kids see the end result when it comes to flowers, but not the entire growth cycle. I also would like to implement the idea of a rainbow garden. Last year we just planted what the kids wanted to see wherever. I think a little more structure could go a long way next spring.
Awesome. I have also cut the bulbs in half so kids could see the inside. It’s fascinating.
Using the changing season to add to and enhance existing art seems like an exciting idea.
Terrific!
When taking our infants on walks we do frequently stop to show them different flowers, trees and bugs. We name the colors as we go
I’m sure they love it too!
I am so excited to read this book with my children and plant a “Rainbow Garden”.
They will feel your excitement too! Keep up the great work.
I think that this book could help my toddlers to learn about colors. Most of the other ideas that you can learn from this particular book is not something that they could comprehend at this age level.
journals.. pictures..hunting for flowers you may seen in book. What fun
SO many beautiful colors and images in that book! I love how you are able to see each step of the growing process, especially what is happening underground. I would love to add this to our classroom library. I especially like how it goes through each color of the rainbow with labeled flowers.
Love watching flowers grow and how each color is so vibrant Have children try to recognize colors Bring different seeds for them to look at and explore Have bulbs also available for them to also explore
We plant a flower garden every year with many varieties of local flowers all different colors and then when we head out to the play yard we discuss the different colors and varieties. The book planting a rainbow is perfect for this activity I do each year.
We could give our children a color to look at then have them go find something of nature that is the same color!
I plant a lot in the fall but, this year since it will be my first year planting with the kids. I will talk to them about the colors and a few might be able to help me. Even though they might not understand. The colors is where most of my focus will be.
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!