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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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I will absolutely create a curriculum kit and share it once my kids return. I know they will enjoy it and we will have lots to share then! Thank you for all of the ideas everyone!
I would have children make flower cards and sing abc flower song
My kit will consist of a few zip lock bags of soil. Flower seed packets. painters tape. clip boards, journal. paper and pencils. a spray bottle with water. the tiny seed and planting seeds books.
I will also include Planting a rainbow. Laminated photo of the parts of plants. Paint and brushes different colored chalk to draw a rainbow of colors. magnifying glasses. I want to include fruits and vegetables that start their growth from flowers and examine why and how this happens.
I think we need to talk about the roll of insect and bees in the garden and why they are good.
Sounds fun!
my kit will have water color paper, water colors for the kids, paint brushes, paper, crayons, zip up baggies in case we collect flowers. I will have a binder with flowers pictures and colors. I will have a poloroid camera and the planting a rainbow and the tiny seed by Erik Carl. I think I will also carry a more informational picture of flowers for the kids to look at. I will also have the songs they learn with me. I think it would also be a great idea for families to have journal for home or pictures that they see.
Awesome!
Sadly, I’m not able to create these wonderful curriculum kits since my center is not open yet. But I am sure getting inspired by all of them and will love to create them using it within my own curriculum. I Love the Take home Kit!! definitely will be discussing this with my co-teacher . I really like the idea of the color walk, and how to add paint strips to it never thought about that. I think it would be a good idea for them to even pick some colors and let them collect the natural items of that color and make a collage with it. I really have enjoyed this section as there are many activities I have not thought about it.
🙂
My kit consists of magnifying glasses, a few cameras we have, notebooks, journals and pencils, small baskets for collections and even some large tweezers for picking up things.
Love it!
My curriculum kit will be base on planting flowers with my little ones: small bag soil, seeds or plants, gardening tools, a watering can, and create the habit of watering the flowers every day and of course a camera to keep track of our project.
Perfect!
I did not add any complementary nature-based children’s books to my kit, but I did you add any of my own extension activities and they are painting style like you need:
– Paper Plate for Hand Prints
– Paints of favorite color
– Hands
– White Paper
– Markers
– Stickers
Great!
I hope to see my teachers scouring the center library for books to add to their kits!
Me too!!! Lot’s of good energy!
I’m looking forward to helping the teachers make their own literature bags. I can’t wait to incorporate any of these books into finding supplies for the bags
Awesome! Fun to see how they come out.
Adding onto my idea from how to make our garden of beauty additional items to add to our curriculum kit would be:
-Various size brushes
-Paints
-Chalk
-Glue
-“Natures Leftovers”
Fun!
Excited to implement nature classroom and already built our nature kits.
I love the ideas on here … am looking forward to put a curriculum kit together
The curriculum this week could consist of a field trip or of painting specific pictures. That could be pictures of plants from the garden or pictures painted by using plants as a the paint brush.
Alexandria and I will be creating a nature kit over the next week. We would like to add some nature based stories to our kit. Reading outdoors is something we would love to add into our day. I think creating our own paintings of a garden and putting those into our kitsch would be interesting. We could have the children compare their drawings to real flowers or plants. This will help us to label flowers on their drawings to further teach them what the names of flowers and plants are.
Great ideas spinning. Keep up the great work.
I will talk with the teachers who work in the preschool classrooms as to what they currently have in their curriculum kits to use for gardens of art and beauty and see what I can add to the mix! I am a support educator and tend to float from classroom to classroom so I would like to know what the teachers in each classroom are currently working with/ have in mind for enriching the outdoor education of their students before I add anything.
How lucky they are to have you!
I would made sure each curriculum kit had the specific materials pertaining to to each book. Regardless if the materials are organic (plants, flowers, seeds and leaves) and non organic (crayons, markers, glue and paint) and most importantly the book that was chosen for the curriculum kit.
Still have everything and more I could ask for.
We could add journals and a camera to document what they see within the garden. Creating the space is the first priority, so planting and taking care of the area.
Brilliant!
I’m excited for spring and working with a younger age group. You’ve given me a lot of ideas and inspiration.
Thrilled to know this! Thanks.
Keeping a picture journal is a good way to keep track. Looking foreword to starting in the spring as well as colleges and nature walks.
Don’t wait until Spring! There is a lot to explore in Winter.
When I build the curriculum kit I going to add journals and cameras so that the kids can better observe and keep and memories they take from the the garden. I don’t have any books yet added , but soon will look for some. This whole lesson on gardens for beauty has really got me looking forward to the spring.
Yea!!!
I really enjoyed the photography extension. The children retain information more through hands on learning and visuals, and the photography piece helps with both.
I would love to give each child their own observation journal along with their camera in order to record something they may forget later, or a specific reason why they took a picture of something.
You hit the nail on the head!
great ideas!!
Adding books outdoors and connecting with what is outside for the season is important. Some books for the winter are Tracks in the Snow and The Snow Day. Activities will revolve in discovery of animal tracks, what do animals do in the winter time.
YES! So glad you are thinking about the winter and different books and activities.
I love the idea of color matching
Creating dyes from some of the flowers seems like a fun time
Looking forward to seeing one.
Don’t have one yet as I’m not included in curriculum planning.
Rainbow of colors now lets get the kids involved. plant plant plant
One complementary nature based children’s book that I added to my curriculum kit is called, ” Red Leaf Yellow Leaf”, by Lois Ehlert. This is the current book that I have for my curriculum kit at this time of year because it is perfect for fall. One extension activity I added to my curriculum kit was painting trays. I added this to my curriculum kit because while the kids are outside I will allow my students to paint rocks or sticks to make it like an art class outside.
We have not started using the kits yet, still working on ideas for it and how to incorporate it into our curriculum.
Love curriculum on the go kits. We began working on ours after our training with you at BCLC! We have been changing the materials inside the bag to match the changing weather. We currently have different colored, fake leaves in our bag for children to go on a leaf hunt. Whichever color leaf they select out of our bag, they have to go find a leaf that matches that color! Weather is a great conversation starter and our children seem to always be interested in if it’s windy, rainy, cold etc. We added music chimes with colorful ribbons attached for children to explore while outside. Is the wind blowing the ribbons? Can you hear the music over the sounds of nature? – are just some questions that come to mind. Also, we have had fun painting outdoors, having color/counting games with our parachute and just appreciating the colors of fall all around us.
You are on your way!!! Becoming a Natural Teacher! Great job!
going to the rug place for color swatches also to Home Depot for paint colors Looking to add to kit as children’s interests change Painting material Binoculars Sticks Seeds rope
At this time in my area all the flowers and vegetables have died due to early frost so no pictures can be added . I will start again in the spring documenting our different gardens.
I love your kit bag xoxxo
I can’t wait to teach our children what I learned and apply these activities!!❤️
YEA! Keep me posted.
I will add color cards and have the kids who can identify colors find and match. Making our fairy garden next spring. Adding lots of nature type books
love the nature and gardening
By the time the brightest flowers bloom, it is almost the end of school. I need more concrete ideas for getting color out into the drab spring environment. Tying silk scarves or ribbons to trees or fence pickets? dyeing cloth with vegetable dyes? making flower wreaths from discarded supermarket flowers? fabric arts weaving looms with bright yarn? How to protect from the elements?
Just thinkng aloud….H.
Ahhh…really great points. I will bring this challenge up in the Facebook group and will write up a post about it. Love reading your ideas and thinking-out-loud!
I’m loving the photography connection. Our kids LOVE having their pictures taken so we could take their pictures with nature. Then we would move on to them taking their own pictures. I’m thinking of how fun it would be for them each to take a picture of something they like in nature. That night I could print them out and laminate all the photos. The next day the children could take someone else’s photo and see if they could find the spot where the photo was taken. It could be like a fun scavenger hunt! Or I could print out photos I take along a nature walk path and print them out. The children could check them off on a clipboard as they find them or work together in teams to find the location.
Thrilled that you are finding connections with photography. I feel photography opens up so many opportunities for literacy outdoors. Make sure you take pictures of the kids taking pictures. Brilliant job!
Oooo, Jamie, I LOVE your ideas! Do you have a classroom camera? We should talk!!
Color swatches to cary and identify with.
Natural paint brushes (pine boughs, grasses, leaves)
Some of the books I listed in 4-3
nice…