The garden classroom: hands-on activities in math, science, literacy, and art, paperback/cathy james

Creative ways to use the garden to inspire learning, for kids ages 4-8 Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas--however big or small your garden.

Every garden offers children a rich, sensory playground, full of interesting things to discover and learn about.

Theres a whole lot of science happening right before their eyes.

The garden can also be a place to develop math and literacy skills, as the outdoors offers up plenty of invitations to weave learning into everyday gardening.

The garden classroom is a place where plants grow, and where children grow too.