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Teach your children early about gardening, agriculture
Help your children develop an appetite for the alphabet as well as agriculture through reading.
A number of gardening and fruits and vegetable books available online and at area bookstores can help children develop strong science skills as well as a love of nature and growing their own food.
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert, a paperback published by Scholastic Inc. and available for $7.00 at Amazon.com, offers a rainbow of fruits and vegetables while helping you teach your child his or her alphabet.
Imagine the tastes of broccoli and bananas as well as Xigua and Zucchini. Along with learning the alphabet, children can become familiar with their colors, and a glossary in the book provides the correct pronunciation of each produce item named in the book along with information on where the item grows and where it originated. The book is unique and fun for young children and adults alike.
How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan and illustrated by Loretta Krupinski, a 32-page paperback for children 4-8 published by HarperCollins and available for $5.99 at
Amazon.com, teaches children about the growing stages of a plant from a seed. The
A number of gardening and fruits and vegetable books available online and at area bookstores can help children develop strong science skills as well as a love of nature and growing their own food.
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert, a paperback published by Scholastic Inc. and available for $7.00 at Amazon.com, offers a rainbow of fruits and vegetables while helping you teach your child his or her alphabet.
Imagine the tastes of broccoli and bananas as well as Xigua and Zucchini. Along with learning the alphabet, children can become familiar with their colors, and a glossary in the book provides the correct pronunciation of each produce item named in the book along with information on where the item grows and where it originated. The book is unique and fun for young children and adults alike.
How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan and illustrated by Loretta Krupinski, a 32-page paperback for children 4-8 published by HarperCollins and available for $5.99 at
Amazon.com, teaches children about the growing stages of a plant from a seed. The
author explains simply how the seeds turns into plant and enables young children to grasp the stages, which is helpful to kindergartners and first graders studying science and learning the process for the first time.
How a Seed Grows is a good book to help the young learners along and inspire them to be gardeners.
Gardening Wizardry for Kids by L. Patricia Kite and Yvette Santiago Banek, a spiral-bound book published by Barron’s Educational Series and available for $16.61 at Amazon.com, is good choice for teaching science and gardening to students at school and home.
To begin, the book features folklore and history about fruits and vegetables, including games people in the past played with items such as apple seeds. Children learn how to grow fruits, vegetables and herbs and how to make crafts from plants such as a corncob doll and a seed wreath. Students even learn about earthworms, bugs and snails.
Gardening Wizardry for Kids is a must-have, even adults can learn from this nicely crafted book.
– Bobbie Whitehead
How a Seed Grows is a good book to help the young learners along and inspire them to be gardeners.
Gardening Wizardry for Kids by L. Patricia Kite and Yvette Santiago Banek, a spiral-bound book published by Barron’s Educational Series and available for $16.61 at Amazon.com, is good choice for teaching science and gardening to students at school and home.
To begin, the book features folklore and history about fruits and vegetables, including games people in the past played with items such as apple seeds. Children learn how to grow fruits, vegetables and herbs and how to make crafts from plants such as a corncob doll and a seed wreath. Students even learn about earthworms, bugs and snails.
Gardening Wizardry for Kids is a must-have, even adults can learn from this nicely crafted book.
– Bobbie Whitehead
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