Nursery World - Up the garden path

Let children discover how their garden grows with green-fingered activities from Carolyn Price Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells,

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells,

And pretty maids all in a row.

All in a row

Visit a garden and share the rhyme with the children.

Planned learning intention

To talk about the meaning of words and enjoy the nonsense in the rhyme Adult:child ratio 1:2 or 3

Resources

A selection of bells and shells, trowel and handfork, pictures of a lawn mower, wheelbarrow, rake, hoe, large garden fork

Step by step

* Visit a garden. Discuss the plants, the gardeners' work and the tools they use.

* At the nursery, let the children handle the tools and describe, from their own experiences, how they are used. Introduce relevant vocabulary, such as digging, planting, watering, mowing and weeding.

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