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Gardening: Activities for 3-5 Year Olds contains enjoyable activities to help foundation stage children develop essential skills. Gardening gives children a wealth of knowledge, skills and experiences. It offers opportunities to grow and care for seeds and plants, to observe and record how they grow and to discover, perhaps, why they didn't grow! An outdoor area is not a prerequisite - many of the activities can be carried out inside. The practical activities include: Growing gardens in jars, Creating miniature gardens, Investigating how much different types of soil weigh, Making leaf prints and Pressing flowers. All the books in the Activities for 3-5 Year Olds Series contain tried-and-tested activities, linked to the six key areas of learning. They are an invaluable resource of fun, easy-to-use ideas for all early years settings, from preschools and nurseries to reception classes and day nurseries.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	14 novembre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780857475428
Langue	English

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GARDENING
Activities for 3-5 year olds
Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce

Publisher Information
Originally published by Brilliant Publications, Unit 10, Sparrow Hall Farm, Edlesborough, Bedfordshire, LU6 2ES
website: www.brilliantpublications.co.uk
Written by Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce
Illustrated by Frank Endersby
© Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce
The Publisher accepts no responsibility for accidents arising from the activities described in this book.
The right of Caroline Quin and Sue Pearce to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published 1998. Reprinted 2009.
Digital version converted and published in 2011 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior consent of the copyright owner. Applications for the copyright owners’ written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher.
We hope you enjoy using this book. If you would like further information on other titles published by Brilliant Publications, please write to the address given above.
Note: to avoid the clumsy ‘he/she’, the child is referred to throughout as ‘she’.

Introduction
Gardening gives children a wealth of knowledge, skills and experiences. It offers opportunities to grow and care for seeds and plants, and to observe and record how they grow and discover, perhaps, why they didn’t grow!
The activities are organized to work within the framework of QCA’s Desirable Learning Outcomes and take into account the child’s developing intellectual, social and physical skills, focusing upon ideas that will encourage the growth of a positive self-image and a positive attitude to those around her.
Try to adopt a ‘play’ approach as much as possible, and be flexible. Whatever the focus of any activity, the child will be learning all kinds of things from it and much will depend on your starting point. Always start from what the children already know, and their interests. You should be able to adapt all the activities in this book to work with either individual children or a small group, without too much problem.
When using this book you will need to plan ahead. It may be useful to write notes on a calendar, so that you are prepared and can give the children the best opportunities to see the results of their work. It is particularly necessary to be mindful of the sowing, growing and harvesting times of any plants grown.
Use buckets, tubs, window boxes, or similar strong containers - they are more versatile than planting straight into the garden soil, but do allow the children to dig, hoe, rake and sieve any outside plot of garden area. You can purchase proper child-sized gardening tools now at some garden centres. For schools or groups without a suitable outside area, many of the activities can be easily carried out inside.
Where possible, when your food crops are ready, plan to include in cookery the foods that the children have grown.
It is extremely important when gardening and using soil from outside to observe stringent hygiene practices. Where possible use clean soil - if necessary purchase the appropriate type from a garden centre. You also need to be fully aware of what plants, shrubs, berries, etc are poisonous or likely to cause allergic reactions when touched or ingested. Discuss your plans with a garden centre if you are uncertain.

A Close Look
What children should learn
Language and literacy - to look closely at what they observe and to talk about it.
What you need
Bug boxes (small enclosed boxes with magnifying lids); magnifying glasses; leaves; stones; flowers; mosses; ferns; woodlice; earwigs, etc; plain paper to use as a background.
Activity
Work with groups of about three children. Carefully place the woodlice, earwigs, etc in the enclosed bug boxes. Put them on a table together with the inanimate items and the magnifying glasses.
Look at the creatures yourself so that you can discuss them with the children. Suggest that they put the leaves, flowers and stones on the plain paper so they are not distracted by the grain of the table. Let the children look at the creatures and the leaves, flowers and stones. Encourage them to talk about what they see.
Extension
Let the children draw what they have observed. Suggest that they look at their fingers and study their fingerprints. Let the children help you to release the creatures carefully outside after the activity is finished.
Talk about
Discuss how much more detail can be seen under a magnifying glass. Can they see how many legs the creatures have? Do they have feelers or wings? Can they see the veins on the leaves? That is where the sap goes through. Can they see the striations on a stone?

Leaf Shadows
What children should learn
Language and literacy - to recognize the differing shapes of leaves (as a precursor to recognizing letter shapes).
What you need
A large variety of the same and different leaves; spray paint; face masks (can be bought from any large decorating store); sugar paper or other paper of a reasonable weight; Blu-tack.
Activity
Carry out this activity one to one, in the open on a still day or in a separate room. Explain to the child that she is going to attach some leaves to the paper and why she must wear a mask. Do not tell her what the end result will be. Let the child select a number of leaves and fix them to the sugar paper with tiny bits of Blu-tack. Talk about the different shapes of the leaves. Has she chosen any leaves that are the same shape? Can she find any leaves similar to the ones she has chosen in the pile of leaves on the table? Both wearing masks, let the child spray all over the paper and the leaves.