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CoursesMaster ClassesLet’s Grow Math Outdoors Master Class
  • Welcome 5

    • Lecture1.1
      0-1: Welcome Note from Victoria 30 min
    • Lecture1.2
      0-2: Good Things to Know 30 min
    • Lecture1.3
      0-3: Why Math Outdoors? 30 min
    • Lecture1.4
      0-4: Ideas to Kick Start Your Math Garden 30 min
    • Lecture1.5
      0-5: Supply List for Your Mini Math Outdoors Kit 30 min
  • Module 1: Math Gardens that Feed 7

    • Lecture2.1
      1-0: Welcome to Gardens that Feed 30 min
    • Lecture2.2
      1-1: Time 30 min
    • Lecture2.3
      1-2: Patterns, Shapes, & Symmetry 30 min
    • Lecture2.4
      1-3: Numbers 30 min
    • Lecture2.5
      1-4 : Measurement 30 min
    • Lecture2.6
      1-5: Data Collection 30 min
    • Lecture2.7
      1-6: A Growing Math Garden that Feeds
  • Module 2: Math Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations 8

    • Lecture3.1
      2-0: Welcome to Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations 30 min
    • Lecture3.2
      2-1: Time: Sun Dial 30 min
    • Lecture3.3
      2-2: Patterns, Shapes, & Symmetry: Music Gardens 30 min
    • Lecture3.4
      2-3: Numbers: Miniature Gardens 30 min
    • Lecture3.5
      2-4: Measurement: Mud Kitchens 30 min
    • Lecture3.6
      2-5: Data Collection: Water Wall 30 min
    • Lecture3.7
      2-6: A Growing Garden of Outdoor Learning Stations
    • Lecture3.8
      LIVE WORKSHOP #1
  • Module 3: Math Gardens that Attract Wildlife 6

    • Lecture4.1
      3:0: Welcome to Gardens that Attract Wildlife 30 min
    • Lecture4.2
      3-1: Time and Food for Wildlife 30 min
    • Lecture4.3
      3-2: Patterns, Shapes and Symmetry & Cover for Wildlife 30 min
    • Lecture4.4
      3-3: Numbers and Water for Wildlife 30 min
    • Lecture4.5
      3-4: Measurement and Places to Raise Young Wildlife 30 min
    • Lecture4.6
      3-5: Data Collection and Sustainable Practices for Wildlife 30 min
  • Module 4: Math Gardens for Art and Beauty 7

    • Lecture5.1
      4-0: Welcome to Gardens for Art and Beauty 30 min
    • Lecture5.2
      4-1: Time & Labyrinths 30 min
    • Lecture5.3
      4-2: Patterns, Shapes, and Symmetry & The Flower Garden 30 min
    • Lecture5.4
      4-3: Numbers & Art in the Garden 30 min
    • Lecture5.5
      4-4: Measurement & Sculpture 30 min
    • Lecture5.6
      4-5: Data Collection & Performance Stages 30 min
    • Lecture5.7
      LIVE WORKSHOP #2
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      40 Comments

    1. Yu Kwan Mok
      June 27, 2020
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      Making number poster cards with popsicle stick attached to the back is definitely a great idea. I also enjoy making number spinning wheels.

    2. Gina Ferreira
      June 24, 2020
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      My kids are really young and they love the rhyming style of books like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 1 2 3. I’m going to make some of the number signs and have the kids help me find places to ‘plant’ them!!

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 26, 2020
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        LOVE THIS! SO SIMPLE!

    3. ToniLynne Russell
      June 11, 2020
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      The number book is great because it connects literacy with a picture and helps with fine fb motor skills. The obvious activity for me would be the food garden, where the children can pick their own good. If we have little cherry tomatoes on the vine, each child gets to pick that number for their age and count them out at the same time.

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 11, 2020
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        πŸ™‚

    4. leena wright
      June 2, 2020
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      I do not have a favorite counting garden book YET but we do have a collection of sticks rocks and shells we collected on walks that we use for making shapes and counting this has been a fun activity for my son.

    5. Donna Rose
      June 1, 2020
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      Today before even seeing this part of the outdoor math number I was playing around with the ideas of how to incorporate numbers into my garden. I’ve decided to attach or paint them on the wooden fence that runs behind the gardening plants, much like a number road. I like the unexpected and whimsical of putting the tire in the garden to grow the beans. I’ve been looking for a solution for the pole beans, I may have found it.

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 1, 2020
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        YIPPPEEEE!!! Great job.

    6. Donna Rose
      June 1, 2020
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      A book I like to read with the children is We Are the Gardeners. By Joanna Gaines and Secrets of a Vegetable Garden by Carron Brown.
      We Are the Gardeners tells a story of challenges and successes of a family trying to garden.
      Secrets of a Vegetable Garden is about everything in the garden including the animals and insects.

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 1, 2020
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        Love these resources! Thanks for sharing.

    7. Jamie Laurenza
      May 26, 2020
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      my favorite activity is creating a math book. I love connecting language and literacy in all areas.

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 1, 2020
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        Awesome!

    8. Tara Savoie
      May 18, 2020
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      I really like the idea of the Garden counting book. I plan to create one while I am at home for use when I finally get to see the children again. Nature photos are so beautiful and inspiring!
      I plan to share the book with the children and maybe they can help to create more pages by representing the nature item that is in the book or creating their own representation of a number (such as drawing six apples or writing the number 6). We could use the book to find similar nature items at school to make some connections.

      • Victoria Hackett
        June 1, 2020
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        Great ideas!

    9. Kristen Heyl
      May 14, 2020
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      My favorite children’s books about numbers in a garden is called “Ten Seeds” by Ruth brown because it shows the different “helpers” that get the seeds into the soil such as ants, pigeons, etc. since it isn’t always people planting the seeds. I like the idea of using those house numbers to put into different sections of the garden and I think I could even adapt it more for my children and put the colored orange circle stickers you can buy underneath each of the numbers so we could work on counting the dots to figure out what number it is.

      • Victoria Hackett
        May 15, 2020
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        Love it! Thanks for sharing!

    10. Michelle Beauregard
      May 13, 2020
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      Once again I love the idea of connecting literacy! I can’t wait to check out the books and share them with my class.

      • Victoria Hackett
        May 13, 2020
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        Awesome…is there a way to share the books with the kids now?

        • Michelle Beauregard
          May 18, 2020
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          I’ve been recording read alouds and finding audio books and other read alouds for families. We are not allowed to let families borrow books right now because of contamination.

          • Victoria Hackett
            June 1, 2020
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            Awesome!!

    11. Jan Carlson
      May 13, 2020
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      In My Garden by Ward Schumaker is a lovely counting book. Progressing upwards, the last page shows 233 peas all numbered. I have one counting whiz that this is perfect for. Love the idea of “planting” numbers throughout the garden.

      • Victoria Hackett
        May 13, 2020
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        So many fun ideas!!!

    12. Heidi Clark
      May 12, 2020
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      I really like the idea of making a garden book. As I mentioned earlier, my class loves to draw. Also, painting the numbers on natural elements is a good idea…I try to incorporate as much natural material as I can in my classroom.
      The Very Hungry Caterpillar is great for this section as well.

      • Victoria Hackett
        May 13, 2020
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        Try to think of ways that you can share these ideas and lessons with your kids now virtually.

    13. Ida Matuskova
      May 12, 2020
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      What fun activities! I like the idea of adding numbers into the garden beds or containers and counting different veggies and plants in the garden.
      I wanted to share my favorite garden book that includes counting. It’s Counting in the garden by Kim Parker. I love the illustrations and I use this book every year in my class!
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXuW4K2odU

      • Victoria Hackett
        May 13, 2020
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        I always believe we are each others best resource. Thanks for sharing the book recommendation!

    14. Shelley Grove
      March 22, 2020
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      We took The Very Hungry Caterpillar story and decided to make a class book, but change it to The Very Healthy Caterpillar. Each child chose a veggie or fruit to print with and were assigned a number for the amount of prints to make. When dry, they each wrote the number and word to accompany their printing. I wrote the rest of the words to make the story flow like in the book. We bound it and put it on the book shelf in our classroom.

      • Victoria Hackett
        March 22, 2020
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        I love this. I especially love that you created a bound book. πŸ™‚ Kuddos to you!

    15. gchmura
      January 10, 2019
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      During the fall months my class dissected pumpkins they studied the symmetry and counted the seeds. It was amazing to see their faces when a small pumpkin was sliced in half, especially the slightly rotten one. Once it was sliced in half we cut it into quarters and discussed how the pieces were the same but now their were more of them and how that number could keep going. Just the counting out load was such a fun activity.

      • Victoria Hackett
        January 10, 2019
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        So many activities that can happen from a pumpkin! Thrilled the kids loved it!

    16. sarahg17.work
      November 6, 2018
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      Our preschool playground is still growing a hearty brussels sprout plant. There are small sprouts on the plant that we harvested. The children had an opportunity to taste them and then report if they liked them. We made a chart with that information.

      I am eager to look into From the Garden and purchase some store bought veggies to graph which ones the kids enjoy/didn’t enjoy. I hope to be able to plant them in the spring, or even grow some in the classroom during the winter.

      • Victoria Hackett
        November 6, 2018
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        Wonderful!! How much fun it is to have a hearty brussel sprout plant! So much fun. Looking forward to hearing about the graphing project.

    17. katymsb
      November 3, 2018
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      We are going to plant kale seeds in our winter box in the greenhouse the kids are fascinated at how small the seeds are and then when I show them a picture of what its going to look like!!! They just love to dig in the dirt! I remember how much I did too when I was little! I ordered the book from the library to share with the children. Also the children enjoyed making apple sauce the other day cutting the apples into halves then quarters. Then at the ended we put the apples through the ricer cranking the handle to finally get to taste our yummy applesauce!!

      • Victoria Hackett
        November 3, 2018
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        So many wonderful math lessons here! What stands out most for me is the hands-on experiences that are offered. I can just imagine the conversations with the children. Exploring tiny seeds that grow into something large to eat. Making something juicy and saucy out of something hard. Love what you are doing with the seeds of inspiration.

    18. Heather Bishop
      October 29, 2018
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      I love the idea of incorporating literacy into our garden/math lessons. I hope to use “From the Garden” as a way to start introducing counting throughout our units. With our pumpkin unit, my students are counting the seeds in the pumpkin. I am also planning to number the stations around the room where the pumpkins are so that the students can later compare the number of seeds in each pumpkin. (Example- “I noticed that pumpkin #1 had 130 seeds, but pumpkin #2 only had 100.)

      • Victoria Hackett
        October 30, 2018
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        You’ve got it! The way you are setting up the room invites children to use Math vocabulary. Brilliant. I can’t wait to see how you use “From the Garden.” Keep me posted. If you have any pictures…please post. It sounds fantastic.

    19. Kerlin
      October 26, 2018
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      I really enjoyed looking at the two books you recommended – thank you Victoria ! While looking at From the Garden, I spotted a book that I loved when my kids were little. It’s called Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. I think it has lots of potential for teaching math concepts. And,it definitely inspires kids (and grown-ups) to plant a garden !

      • Victoria Hackett
        October 26, 2018
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        Thanks for sharing Kerlin! Thrilled you enjoyed the books. Love how children’s books can inspire learning and teaching in the garden. πŸ™‚

    20. calamityjayne85
      October 24, 2018
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      Love the book Apple Farmer Annie, we read it and use it a lot in the fall to discuss harvest time and math.

      • Victoria Hackett
        October 24, 2018
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        Yea! Another fan! Do you have any favorite children’s books about Numbers in the Veggie garden? So much fun! πŸ™‚

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