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Integrate language learning, motor skills, dramatic play, and visual arts. Watch gardeners and greenhouse workers at their jobs. Dig in soil. Plant seeds (see Growing, Growing). Start a compost pile.
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For a change of place, do this activity outdoors on picnic tables.
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Copy this poem on poster board (older children could write it). Read it along with children. I dig, dig, dig and plant some seeds. I rake, rake, rake and pull some weeds. I wait, wait, wait and soon I know My garden sprouts start to grow.
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Listen to the poem’s words. Move in different ways to dig, plant, rake, pull weeds, wait, and sprout.
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Which is your favorite part of a gardener’s work? What colors do you see? What do you smell in a garden? What textures do you feel?
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With Crayola® Construction Paper™ Crayons, draw your impressions of a garden or gardener on white construction paper.