A Green Kid's Guide to Watering Plants

by Richard Lay

Overview

A Green Kid's Guide to Watering Plants will teach students how to plant seeds in a raised bed and keep it watered properly with an adult's help! The process of selecting seeds, plant, and conserve water is explained in detail. A seedling project will give students a hands on activity to get them interested in gardening. Common Core and State Standards for life cycles, soil, weather, measuring, observing, and reporting can all be connected to A Green Kid's Guide to Watering Plants. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades PreK-4.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614805861
Publisher:	ABDO Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	Green Kid's Guide to Gardening! Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
Lexile:	570L (what's this?)
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	4 - 9 Years

Table of Contents

Are You Ready to Plant? 4

Study, Study, Study 7

Where to Plant? 8

It's Time to Plant! 11

Are They Thirsty? 12

Plants Hate Showers 15

When to Give Your Plants a Drink 16

Stop Losing Water 19

Harvest the Rain 20

Grow Seedlings 22

Glossary 23

Web Sites 23

Index 24

Editorial Reviews

Gr 1–3—This set contains clear and concise instructions and information that encourage kids to enjoy all aspects of gardening while taking responsibility for the Earth. Young readers will appreciate the frank language-worm poop gets a lot of play-and accessible analogies (a raised bed is compared to a bed for people). The tips and advice are quite good: in Garden Pest, students learn that ants hate mint, and in Composting it's explained that you shouldn't put meat, oil, or dairy into a compost "because animals will get into your compost pile." The cheerful illustrations are particularly charming; they depict kids of all sizes and hues working together, using tools, and caring for their plants. Like the text, these drawings are clear and helpful. Each book is rounded off with an activity, some of which, like "Grow Seedlings" (in Watering Plants) can even be undertaken in colder months. Great nonfiction for early readers.

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