The+Curious+Garden

= __The Curious Garden__ = Page created by Elyce Josephson

Brown, P. (2009). //The curious garden.// New York: Little Brown and Company.

Image Retrieved July 25, 2011 from [|http://www.flr.follett.com].

__**Summary:**__ One dreary day, a curious boy named Liam went exploring. He happened to come across the few lone plants in the city, growing on old railroad tracks. He began to care for these plants, and soon they were flourishing and curiously exploring as well.

__**Online Links:**__ >>   Children will create their own cityscape garden as viewed in the photograph. The paper would be held down by using painter's masking tape. The children would paint the skyline blue and ground green for grass. After they would paint the outline of the buildings black. Tissue paper would be torn and scrunched representing flowers. >> Retrieved on July 25, 2011, from [] >> >>
 * **Author's Webstite**
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 * **Interview with Author**
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 * **Online Lesson Plans**
 * [[file:Curious Garden Lesson.pdf]]
 * ** Follow-up Craft Activity **
 * **Kids Garden: Helping Young Minds Grow**
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__**Discussion Questions:**__
 * 1) What exciting things have you found while exploring your own neighborhood?
 * 2) In the beginning, no one had any plants, but once Liam began there were many others. Why do you think no one helped Liam take care of the flowers at first?
 * 3) Why do you think planting a garden or trimming trees help communities?

__**Classroom Activity:**__ For an outdoor activity, I would invite parent volunteers to come help with a yard clean-up. We could do any yard, but the school would be a great central location, and if so I would first clear it with the grounds crew. We would do simple things such as water the plants, pick out the trash, or pull weeds. Adults could help them plant flowers in pots which could either go outside the outside entrance doors. or the classroom doors. We would then discus how these little things help our community and our school.