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Gardening begins, inch by inch

By PeggyA | Published: March 15, 2010
Teacher of two-year-olds Sue Hewitt reports that she has already planted with one group—“lettuce last week and will do radish planting this week. I like to do something that can mature and be harvested and eaten by the kids. We usually have a salad bar one day—pick and wash and spin lettuce and have kids each [...]
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Gardening catalogs arriving daily? Help is on the way!

By PeggyA | Published: January 17, 2010
Is the arrival of gardening catalogs inspiring you to dream about planting with your students, and plan a garden of any size? You know that people of all ages benefit from spending time outdoors and that your children were interested in seeds, perhaps in October if you carved a pumpkin, opened a milkweed pod, or [...]
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Plants and their partners

By Mary Bigelow | Published: February 16, 2009
I recently received the first seed catalog in the mail. For those of us in the northern states, seeing the pictures of flowering plants is a harbinger of spring! In the same delivery was this issue of S&C, themed around plants. A coincidence? Growing bean seeds is a standard activity in elementary science and a [...]
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