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How My Garden Grows
Stories we shared: Flower Garden: by Eve Bunting Planting a rainbow: by Lois Ehlert The Surprise Garden: by Zoe Hall Growing Colors: by Bruce McMillan
Other books you may enjoy sharing: Miss Emma’s Wild Garden: by Anna Hines A Handful of Sunshine: by Melaine Eclare Vegetables Go to Bed: by Christopher King Growing Vegetable soup: by Lois Ehlert Sunflower: by Sally Noll The Gumdrop Tree: by Elizabeth Spurr The Gardener: by Sarah Stewart The Missing Sunflowers: by Maggie Stern The day the dasies danced: by Dee Lillegard Parable of the Sunflower: by Liz Higgs How my garden grew: by Anne Rockwell Titch: by Pat Hutchins In a spring garden: by Richard Lewis The carrot seed: by Ruth Kraus The Tiny Seed: by Eric Carle Waiting for Wings: by Lois Ehlert In my Mother’s Garden: by Melissa Madenski Magic School bus plants seeds: by Joanna Cole This year's garden: by Cynthia Rylant Eating the Alphabet: by Lois Ehlert Oliver’s Vegetables: by Vivian French The Giant Vegetable Garden: by Nadine Westcott Moose in the Garden: by Nancy Carlstrom Mr. Carey’s Garden: by Jane Cutler
Songs and rhymes to share: Watch it Bloom I Dig, Dig, Dig Here is a green leaf (hold out one palm) I dig, dig, dig (pretend to dig) And here is a green leaf (hold out other palm) And I plant some seeds (stoop down to plant) That, you see, makes two. I rake, rake, rake (pretend to rake) Here is a bud (cup hands together) And I pull some weeds (pull up weeds) That makes a flower I wait and watch (hands on hips looking down) Watch it bloom for you! (slowly open hands) My garden sprouts (hands low) And starts to grow! (raise hands) Five Pretty Sunflowers (hold up 5 fingers) Five pretty sunflowers standing in the sun Now their heads are nodding (bend fingers) Five Little Peas And bowing one by one Five little peas in a peapod pressed (make fist) Down, down, down, down One grew, two grew and so did all the rest Comes the gentle rain (raise fingers one at a time) (raise hands, then lower, wiggling fingers) They grew and grew and did not stop And the five pretty sunflowers (stretch fingers wide) Lift up their heads again (raise up 5 fingers) Until one day the pod went POP! (clap hands)
Five Little Sunflowers Planting Time (to the tune of “Row Row Your Boat”) Five little sunflowers, growing in the ground Dig, dig, dig the earth (pretend to dig) (crouch down) Then you plant your seeds (pretend to plant) Five little sunflowers yellow and brown A gentle rain (fingers flutter down) The sun began to shine - The rain began to fall The bright sunshine (arms circle overhead) (arms over head - fingers flutter down) And flowers you will see (open arms wide) And the five little sunflowers grew up tall (pretend to grow - stretch arms up) Round the Garden Round and round the garden (draw circle on tummy) Dig a Little Hole Goes the teddy bear Dig a little hole (pretend to dig) One step, two steps (walk fingers up chest) Plant a little seed (pretend to plant) Tickle under there! (tickle neck) Pour a little water (pretend to water) Round and round the garden (draw circle on tummy) Pull a little weed (pretend to weed) Goes the little mouse Chase a little bug (shoo with hands) One step, two steps (walk fingers up chest) There he goes! (wiggle fingers away) Into his little house (tickle under arm) Give a little sunshine (arms circle overhead) Grow a little rose (pretend to hold flower to smell) Mr. Sun by Raffi “Singable Songs”
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