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Flower Garden by Eve Bunting

 

Flower Garden is a stunningly illustrated, poetic story about a little girl's process of building a flower garden box as a birthday gift for her mom. Starting from the store to the bus ride home to her apartment and ending with her mom's arrival home, the reader follows the little girl's journey and excitement in creating this springtime gift. 

This story aligns with many learning objectives and pairs well with class garden projects. Just like the main character, you don't need much room to start a garden!

Check out these visuals and activities: 

 

Story Vocabulary

Review story vocabulary as you read. Display these new words on a word wall or match to the words in the book. 

 Vocabulary from Flower Garden by Eve Bunting - Pictures and Words Story Vocabulary from Flower Garden by Eve Bunting - Themed Picture Cards

 

WH Questions - Where? 

The main character journeys through different parts of town. As you read, ask students where the character is located. Her location is often inferred in descriptions of where the flowers are ("Garden in a shopping cart" - store, "Garden going up the stairs" - apartment building).

 WHERE questions for the story, Flower Garden by Eve Bunting - Question Cards

Sequence the main events and where the garden moved to in the story. 

Sequence story Flower Garden by Eve Bunting - Picture Schedule

 

Phonological Awareness:

Syllables

Use clothespins, bingo chips, or even balls of playdoh to match the number of syllables in each of these words found in the story..

How Many Syllables? - Clothespin Literacy Cards

Rhyming

Eve Bunting uses rhyme to captivate the reader adding to the beautiful melody of her words combined with the stunning illustrations. Have students look for the rymes in the book. 

Check out these activities using rhyming pairs form the book, 

Match the rhyming words - Themed Pairs Match the Rhymes from story, Flower Garden - Find The Match

Check out more rhyming activities

Find the Rhyme - Question Cards "I Have... Who Has" Rhyming - I Have.. Who Has Writing A Rhyming Story - Books and Stories

 

Prepositions

This story is filled with prepositions! "in a shopping cart", "on the checkout stand", "up the stairs". Practice and play with different prespositions. 

Hide flowers around the room. Have students identify where each flower is to a partner. "Behind the clock", "over the door", "under the table"...

Flower Hunt - Picture Cards

Here are more floral preposition activities. 

Where is the Flower? - Word Writing The butterfly is _____ the flower. - Word Writing

 

Flower Science

Learn how to plant your own garden! Check out this story about planting flower seeds. 

Planting Flower Seeds - Books and Stories

Learn plant anatomy

flower - Picture Cards

Talk about the parts of a flower. Use scissors to dissect and sort parts of a flower on sorting mats. 

Dissect Plants Sorting Mats - Sorting Mats Flower Parts Sorting Mats - Sorting Mats

Discuss and create a life cycle of a plant. 

 Plant Life Cycle - Picture Schedule

Or sequence the process of growing flowers. 

Growing Flowers - Picture Schedule How Does a Flower Grow? - Picture Schedule Plant life cycle - Picture Cards

 

Writing and Drawing

Look at different types of flowers: roses, tulips, daffodils, etc. Compare and contrast the different kinds. Do a scientific drawing of 2 different types of flowers. 

Scientific Drawings of Flowers - Sorting Mats

Write the names of different types of flowers. 

Name the Flower - Word Writing

Write about your own flower experience. 

Write about your flower experience - Writing Pages

Make your own coloring book!

Simple Gardening coloring Book - Books and Stories

 

Dramatic Play

Students can set up their own flower shop. Here is a visual with ideas of how to set up a play flower store. 

How to Play Flower Shop - Picture Schedule Garden Center - Themed Mats

 

Art

Pretend to be a flower! 

 Flower Fun! - Coloring Sheet

 

Here are more flower ideas from the sharing center. 

SBRS EER Medial Garden Game - Game Board Gardening Bingo - Bingo Games My Garden - Books and Stories 

Growing Plants 1 Go Fish - Playing Cards Planting a Rainbow Bingo - Bingo Games Spring Garden Vocabulary - Bingo Dauber Pages
 

Have fun learning and growing together!