In short, I am busy: Gardens Grow

Flannelboards, Manipulatives, and Storytelling

• Enormous Carrot
• Fruit slices guessing game
• Grow vs. Made game

Rhymes, songs, and movement

• Five fat peas
• Jumping beans

These and more are available online

Vocabulary and concepts

Crafts and extension activities

Toddler listeners (*Nonfiction)

• Plant the tiny seed by Christie Matheson
• Watermelon seed by Greg Pizzoli
• *Go Go Grapes by April Pulley Sayre
• *Fantastic flowers by Susan Stockdale
• *What will grow by Jennifer Ward
  

Preschool listeners (*Nonfiction)

• *Plants can't sit still by Rebecca Hirsch
• *Up in the garden and down in the dirt by Kate Messner
• Do you know which ones will grow? by Susan Shea

School-age Stories (*Nonfiction)

• On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole
• *Yucky worms by Vivan French
• *Planting the wild garden by Kathryn Galbraith