Growing a vegetable garden!Getting children back to nature and growing a vegetable garden has many benefits. It allows children to reconnect with the natural world and learn the true source of where their food comes from.
Students will learn valuable gardening concepts and skills that integrate within the Australian curriculum. Children will also learn teamwork, social skills and gain self-confidence throughout play. Students can work together to plan a design and discuss the best type of vegetables to grow according to the climate and season. Lists can be made according to the items they need and even extend to creating a recipe book with the different types of recipes that could be made using our fresh vegetables. It's also a great idea to ask the children. Sit together and initiate conversations with them. "I wonder what type of vegetables we could grow outside?", "I wonder how lettuce grows?" It would be so beneficial to go with the children ideas and watch them develop.
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Connections made to the Australian Curriculum: Foundation Year!
ENGLISH: Language for interaction (ACELA1429)
Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes dislikes.
Expressing and developing ideas (ACELA1786)
Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts.
Examining Literature (ACELT1578)
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text.
Interacting with others (ACELY1784)
Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact.
MATHS: Number and Place Value (ACMNA002)
Connect number names, numerals and quantities, including zero, initially up to 10 and then beyond.
Measurement and Geometry (ACMMG006)
Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier or hold more, and explain reasoning in everyday language.
SCIENCE UNDERSTANDING (ACSSU002)
Biological science - Living things have basic needs, including food and water.
Earth and space sciences - (ACSSU004)
Daily and seasonal changes in our environment including the weather, affect everyday life.
Science Inquiry Skills - (ACSIS011)
Explore and make observations by using the senses.
SUSTAINABILITY
SCIENCE AS A HUMAN ENDEAVOUR
Use and influence of science (ACSHE035)
People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things.
Connections made to the Early Years Learning Framework!
OUTCOME ONE: CHILDREN HAVE A STRONG SENSE OF IDENTITY.
- Openly express their feelings and ideas in their interactions with others. (p21)
- Respond to ideas and suggestions from others. (p21)
- Confidently explore and engage with social and physical environments through relationships and play. (p21)
- Take considered risk in their decision-making and cope with the unexpected. (p22)
- Broaden their understanding of the world in which they live. (p26)
- Use play to investigate, project and explore new ideas. (p29)
- Demonstrate an increasing knowledge of, and respect for natural and constructed environments.(p29)
- Explore, infer, predict and hypothesise in order to develop an increased understanding of the interdependence between land, people, plants and animals. (p29)
- Show growing appreciation and care for natural and constructed environments. (p29)
- Show enthusiasm for participating in physical play and negotiate play spaces to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others. (p32)
- Use their sensory capabilities and dispositions with increasing integration, skill and purpose to explore and respond to their world. (p32)
- Express wonder and interest in their environments. (p34)
- use play to investigate, imagine and explore ideas. (p34)
- participate in a variety of rich and meaningful inquiry-based experiences. (p34)