Pre-K/Kindergarten Fall Digital Book

These autumn activities serve as an introduction to growing your food while exposing children to planting and harvesting crops, depending on the appropriate season. Lessons also incorporate a healthy dose of age-appropriate nutrition while planting the seed about the importance of taking care of our planet.

Topics Covered Include:

• Seasonal Planting (Warm versus Cool Seasons)
• Cucumbers (Nutrition and History)
• Apples (Varieties and Tasting)
• Pumpkins (Circumference Activity)
• Pumpkins (Using our senses and descriptive adjectives)
• Leaves Changing Color (Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis)
• Worms (Anatomy and Decomposition)
• Soil (Healthy Composition)
• Potatoes (History, How to Grow, Introduction to "Tubers")
• Fall Harvest (When and How)

This tested elementary school curriculum makes it easy to have or add garden-based learning to any classroom or home. Kids will not feel like they are doing any "work" while engaging with their environment. Learning about where our food comes from encourages community, collaboration, environmental awareness, and life-long healthy habits.

Having a garden plot is helpful but not needed for these lessons to be impactful!