Hollyhocks and Honeybees: Garden Projects for Young Children ebook
by Marla Olthof,Karen Midden,Sara Starbuck
Sara Starbuck: Sara Starbuck, EdD, is an associate professor in the .
Marla Olthof: Marla Olthof has nearly a decade of experience teaching toddlers and preschoolers and has trained a variety of teachers in a multitude of settings, including undergraduate practicum experiences and student teaching, at Southern Illinois University and the Purdue University Calumet Head Start Resource Center
Gardening with Young Children (Hollyhocks and Honeybees). As an early childhood educator, I was excited to read this book. I was looking forward to new, imaginative ideas for my students' garden projects, which the three southern Illinois authors promised in their introduction.
Gardening with Young Children (Hollyhocks and Honeybees). Instead--I was startled by the utter lack of imagination I found in this book. Plans for a dinosaur garden, sensory garden, and bird/butterfly garden are old news and have been around for decades in early childhood education.
Hollyhocks and Honeybees : Garden Projects for Young Children
Hollyhocks and Honeybees : Garden Projects for Young Children. by Karen Midden, Sara Starbuck, Marla Olthof.
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Gardening with Young Children. This book encourages early childhood professionals to garden with children and provides information on why and how to incorporate gardening projects in any learning environment. It also explains the expansive learning opportunities that come with gardening.
From Hollyhocks and Honeybees:Garden Projects for Young Children by Sara Starbuck, Marla Olthof, and Karen .
Reprinted with permission of Redleaf Press, St. Paul, MN; ww. edleafpress. Topics: Outdoor Classroom, Gardening with Children. Marla Olthof is an early childhood consultant with nine years of classroom experience, including five years as a master teacher at the Child Development Laboratories at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Karen Midden is an associate professor of plant soil and general agriculture at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Chapter 1 of the book, "Why Garden?" details the benefits of gardening for young children, describes the project approach used, discusses the role of the teacher, and presents procedures for developing a "gardening" topic web. Chapter 2, "Engaging Children in Gardening," describes ho. . Chapter 2, "Engaging Children in Gardening," describes how to foster personal investment and common knowledge, engage children in the process of discussing what they know about gardens and what they want to learn, plan fieldwork, choose garden themes, and document children learning throughout the project.
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Starbuck, Sara; Olthof, Marla; Midden, Karen. Children are drawn to nature and the outdoors. This guide details the inclusion of gardening in the preschool curriculum at a university child development program in Illinois
Starbuck, Sara; Olthof, Marla; Midden, Karen. This guide details the inclusion of gardening in the preschool curriculum at a university child development program in Illinois. Chapter 1 of the book, "Why Garden?" details the benefits of gardening for young children, describes the project approach used, discusses the role of the teacher, and presents procedures for developing a "gardening" topic web.
Starbuck, Sara, Marla Olthof, and Karen Midden. Hollyhocks and Honeybees: Garden Projects for Young Children. St. Paul: Redleaf, 2002. Personal Information. At a time when more children spend their days trapped indoors than ever before and the country finds itself in the middle of an obesity epidemic spiraling out. of control, Kelly Johnson's book is exactly what we need at this very critical moment to reconnect children to the wonder of nature and the magic of the garden.