Monday, March 15, 2021

Nothing is more exciting than having a GARDENING UNIT included in your home school or classroom activities this spring season! These extension activities are engaging and fun and are perfectly curated to go along with your real gardening experience.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

Gardening Tools 3 Part Cards both in PRINT & CURSIVE (Montessori Method). Please see attached HOW TO for Montessori 3 Part Cards method.
Beginning letter Sound of each pets both in PRINT & CURSIVE
Gardening Dough Picture Mats (using playdough)
1-10 Gardening Counting Clipcards
A to Z Beginning Letter Sound
Number Representation
Snail Color (Dabbing or Cover)
Flower Color Sorting Activity
Garden Tracing Strips
Carrots Counting/Planting Activity
Worm Collecting Activity
Gardening POSTERS
Alphabet Tracing Strips (Gardening Themed)
Number Tracing Strips (Gardening Themed)
Ten Frames Scenes
Measuring Gnomes using 2cm Snapcubes
Cutting Strips
Flower Garden Patterning
Garden Vegetable Sorting Activity
Kids Activity Sorting (Gardenin or non-Gardening activity)

PREVIEW

GARDEN TOOLS VOCABULARY

The 3 part cards and posters are meant to introduce different tools used in gardening, and the use of real items (or miniature) will help the kids expand their vocabulary.

COLOR SORTING

Color recognition activity for kids. Sort the flowers according to colors. This comes in printable form, or you can opt to use some sorting cups like in my set-up below. The thing is, you can always use the activity no matter how you like it and be creative enough to make it engaging to the kids. I'm sharing below an idea of making this simple color sorting activity engaging to little ones.

This is a play-pretend activity of flowers planted in the garden, and we will be sorting them according to the colors.

I printed, laminated and cut the flower pieces (included in the pack). Vito stick them on the popsicle sticks and placed them on a silicone tray. I used colored sorting cups from here.

PLANTING CARROTS

Identify the tally count in the cards and plant the same number of carrots in the mats. My son suggested adding play dough on the mats so the carrots will stick.

WORM COLLECTING

Your garden wouldn't be that healthy without worms! So here's another play pretend idea of collecting worms from a pile of soil. Use chocolate cookies or Oreo (what we used) as your soil, and place gummy worms.

This is a worm counting activity. Print the buckets from our pack, and collect the number of worms from the soil indicated in each bucket.

GARDEN VEGETABLE SHAPE SORTING

A simple shape sorting activity of vegetables.

MEASURING GARDEN GNOMES

I remember growing seeing lots of gnomes in gardens. So I decided to include gnomes in our pack for measuring activity. Print, laminate and cut the cards. Use 2CM snap cubes to measure the length of the gnomes.

Then you and the kids can, later on, discuss the difference in sizing, identify the smallest, the biggest or order the sizes of gnomes.

GARDEN TOMATO LETTERS

Form the letters using playdough or any manipulatives available. I use our vegetable counter in this activity.

GARDENING VS NON-GARDENING ACTIVITIES

This is a FEED ME activity. Identify the pictures, whether it is about gardening or not, and sort them out. You can use empty boxes for this activity (for the mouth), but in our case, I used magnetic tiles, form it into a box and stick the mouth shrubs.