WEEK 1: OUT
OF THE GARDEN
We had quick discussion about gardens at the
beginning: about who has a garden and what it takes for a garden to grow! We
talked about how every plant needs water, soil, sun and good attention to keep
healthy. We talked about the different things that we can find in a garden like
flowers, tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries and other fruit and vegetables. We
then read our first story:
Too Many Chickens by Paulette Bourgeois and Bill Slavin
After we read “Too Many Chickens” we discussed
about our own class pets. They have taken care of everything from a gerbil to a
bearded dragon in their classes!
We also read Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming
We then played a game to see if everyone knew their
fruit and vegetables, the children all decided that corn is the best vegetable
because you can make popcorn from the kernels!
I then challenged them even further in their
fruit/vegetable knowledge by giving them a riddle and getting them to guess
what I was talking about. Here are the riddles we figured out today in the
program!
I’m round
red and juicy, too
Chop me
up in a salad
Or dump
me in your stew,
What am
I?
Chop me
up and slice me,
But keep
a tissue near.
I
sometimes get a bit juicy
And can
bring on a few tears
What am
I?
Orange is
my colour,
I stand
long and lean.
In the
garden you will see
Just my
leaves of green.
What am
I?
I live in
a pod
With so
many others.
I think I
was born
With one
hundred brothers
What am
I?
I have
eyes for perfection
To give
you my very best.
Baked,
mashed, or French fried,
I’ll pass
any test.
What am
I?
My
friends call me trees,
Now
that’s a funny name,
Though I
am dark, dark, green
With
stalks just the same.
What
am I?
The last story we read was Seven Hungry Babies by
Candace Fleming:
We moved into our activity of our grass headed man!
We used plastic cups, googly-eyes and pipe cleaners for the face and we
decorated our cups with stickers and foam cut outs! We then put soil and grass
seeds in the cup and gave them a light sprinkle of water.
If you are looking for some other great gardening
books to read, here are some suggestions!
Next week
we will be exploring the land of music! Our theme is March to the beat of
your own drum.
Don’t
forget to bring in your reading notebook next time, with all your readings from
the past week so you can enter into the weekly prize. The prize will be drawn
Friday at 4:00!
