Planting a garden in room 6 From seeds to salad

Caroline Arnold

Book - 2022

"Follow a classroom of diverse kindergartners as they plant seeds in their garden, tend the growing plants, and harvest the vegetables. Clear, bright photographs show the plant life cycle"--

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Informational works
Illustrated works
Published
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Caroline Arnold (author)
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm
Audience
Ages 3-7
Grades K-1
ISBN
9781623542405
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Review by Booklist Review

The kindergartners from Room 6 are outdoors, planting and watering rows of vegetable seeds in raised beds. In the classroom, over the coming weeks, they observe beans sprouting roots and green shoots in clear plastic cups with wet paper-towel liners. Meanwhile, they can envision that the seeds they planted outdoors are undergoing similar stages of growth beneath the soil. The kids weed out some of the seedlings and feed them to the school chickens. These birds (now grown) were featured in Arnold's Hatching Chicks in Room 6 (2017), the first book in the Room 6 series. At one point, aphids are eating the plants, but ladybugs start eating the aphids. When the vegetables are ready, the children harvest them and make a salad. The book's relatively short sentences are varied in structure and easily understood. Tracing the process of this long-term classroom project, the text tells what the students did, while the clear, appealing color photos show what they observed. An intriguing book for children unfamiliar with gardening, and a wonderful resource for teachers undertaking similar projects.

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