The Garden Classroom

Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art

Cathy James

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Roost Books
15 April 2015

Child care & upbringing; Gardening: plants

Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas-however big or small your garden.

Every

garden offers children a rich, sensory playground, full of interesting

things to discover and learn about. There's a whole lot of science

happening right before their eyes. The garden can also be a place to

develop math and literacy skills, as the outdoors offers up plenty of

invitations to weave learning into everyday gardening. The garden

classroom is a place where plants grow, and where children grow too.

By: Cathy James
Imprint: Roost Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781611801644
ISBN 10: 1611801648
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 15 April 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of activities: 1. Let's Grow! Garden Basics Planting Seeds / Egg Heads and Tin Can Hair Salon / Quirky Eco Planters / Painted Plant Pots / Grow Your Own Meadow / Snipping Garden / Plant Labels / DIY Watering Can / Garden Power Potion / Harvesting Your Own Seeds 2. Play and Imagination How to Build a Fort / Pretend Play Potting Shed / Mud Pie Tea Party / Fairy Garden / Make a Dinosaur World / Miniature Garden / Garden Sensory Tubs / Sensory Treasure Hunt / Play Dough in the Garden / Snail Races 3. Reading and Writing Write a Garden Journal / Chalk Observation Station / Sensory Word Hunting / Nature Treasure Bag / Jack and the Beanstalk / Story Stones / Fairy or Gnome Mailbox 4. Science and Math Math Pebbles / Investigation Table / Growing Seeds Experiment: Part One / Growing Seeds Experiment: Part Two / Mini Beast Bingo / Bird Cafe / Creatures Close Up / Bug Hotel / Ladybug Number Line / One Yard Leaf Race / Host a Plant Olympics / Sunflower Height Chart / Symmetry Butterflies / Tree Trunk Geoboard 5. Arts and Crafts Handprint Sunflower / Cement Tile Art / Garden Bunting / Finger-Knit a Flower / Leaf Collage / Daffodil Bunting / Daffodil Pinwheel / Large-Scale Landscape Art / Spring Flower Bouquet / Sticky Pictures / Caterpillars / Clothespin Butterfly / Clay Leaf Impressions / Clay Faces and Creatures / Land Art Wreath / Land Art Mandala / Make a Scarecrow 6. Garden Recipes Customized Soup / Basil Pesto / Zucchini Relish

CATHY JAMES is passionate about kids, play, and gardens. She's spent half of her working career coaching and training adults and switched over to working with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers after she had her two daughters. She used to run a home daycare and a School Gardening Club project. She now writes and publishes the successful kids' activities blog, NurtureStore; she also writes for BabyCentre and KidsActivitiesBlog.com. She lives in the UK on the edge of a city and has a tiny walled garden.

Reviews for The Garden Classroom: Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art

"""My life with kids has been devoted to their art and creativity, and I'm so pleased to find The Garden Classroom is absolutely sprouting with richly creative ways to use the garden. I'm particularly inspired to play and imagine (chapter 2) in the garden and construct a fairy garden or see if my dinosaur world will attract a tiny dinosaur! Cathy James has been delighting me for years with her blog, and this book puts her inspiring garden ideas right at my fingertips and green thumb.""—MaryAnn F. Kohl, author of Discovering Great Artists, Preschool Art, and 20 other art books for kids"