What a great time of year to get your hands dirty! In our community there are loads of opportunities for people to join Community Gardens. People can rent a plot for as little as $10 a year. Or people can volunteer to tend to the local Victory Gardens that grow food for local soup kitchens and food banks. Whatever you choose, there is certainly a lot to dig into to gain valuable language skills!
Perhaps you can rent a plot for your own class to collaboratively sew the seeds of learning. Perhaps you could go on a field trip to observe and describe what is growing in your own community.
Possible language activities are as follows:
1. Go through a simplified seed catalogue that has the picture of the vegetable or herb. Decide as a class what seed you'd like to grow.
2. After choosing the seeds, you could calculate the sum of all the seed packs you'd need and role-play purchasing the seeds from a cashier. Count out the change.
3. Create an LEA (Language Experience Approach) story about how to plant seeds.
4. Measure the growth of the seeds weekly and create a chart. Learners could draw pictures of the growth each week.
5. Get out your culinary hats! Use the veggies and herbs to make your own salads or appetizers to share with the class. Take photos during the process and make a picture story.
Outcomes: Express own preferences, complete simple addition and subtraction, describe own experiences, measure using a ruler, draw basic shapes, listen to and follow instructions, sequence photos, begin to write sentences to describe a photo.
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