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Gardens 2

This document outlines activities for a gardening curriculum for children, including tending an indoor or outdoor garden together, learning about plant lifecycles and types of gardens through books and hands-on activities, and incorporating gardening into other areas of learning like math, music, art, and healthy eating. Children will observe how plants grow, care for a class or community garden, and take a field trip to a local farmers market.

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Gardens 2

This document outlines activities for a gardening curriculum for children, including tending an indoor or outdoor garden together, learning about plant lifecycles and types of gardens through books and hands-on activities, and incorporating gardening into other areas of learning like math, music, art, and healthy eating. Children will observe how plants grow, care for a class or community garden, and take a field trip to a local farmers market.

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Children can have their own

feelings that they add to the


garden throughout the day

Lifecycle of plants

Research types of
gardens/plants

Have children
work in partnerships to
tend to garden

Soil & seeds in the


sensory bin

Seed counting
math games

Work together to
make "stone" soup

Create a feeling garden--give


different emotions to different
parts of the garden

Measure plants using


a variety of mediums

Work together to
create a class garden

Social/Emotional

Sing plant and


garden songs

Cognitive

Plant & observe the


growing of plants

Music/Movement

Gardens

Photosynthesis

Sing plant &


garden songs

Plant inspired yoga:


Child pose - seed
Lion pose - seedling
Chair pose - growing
Tree pose - grown
Sun Salutation - sun shining

Language
Physical

Read:
The Carrot Seed
Planting a Rainbow
Stone Soup
The Seed is Sleepy
Introduce garden
vocabulary

What do we use a
garden for?

Circle discussion about


what it takes to start &
tend a garden

Creative
Make a photo book or gallery from the
trip to the farmers market

Take trip to the local farmers market or


rooftop garden--HP farmers market,
Brooklyn Grange, BBG, etc.

Plant a school
garden/community
garden

Discuss healthy
eating: plants we eat

Children can prepare


healthy snacks to share

Build a "garden" out of


recycled materials

Children can take, print,


mount and display photos

Inspired by Planting a
Rainbow, have the children
plant a rainbow garden

Design & decorate signs and plant


labels for their new garden

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