Garden Adventures: Exploring Plants with Young Children

The garden is an engaging, stimulating, and -- most importantly, fun learning environment for preschool children. Written for early childhood educators to use in their classrooms, this book features 16 thoughtful, hands-on activities centered around four key questions to encourage kids' healthy growth: What is a plant? Where do plants come from? How do we take care of plants? Why are plants important?Each chapter includes horticultural teacher background information, interdisciplinary extension ideas, and a reproducible "family newsletter" describing an activity to complete at home. Equally suited for educators who are new to gardening and those who are experienced green thumbs, these inspired lessons can be incorporated into your instruction so that you and your young students can embark on a wonderful garden learning adventure. 96 pages. PreK.