Lesson Plan

The Secret Garden Lesson Plan: Littles Edition

Meet Mary and the robin, sprout a bean, and plant your own bit of earth.

This is the Littles Edition of The Secret Garden: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades K-3. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: How does a tiny seed grow into a flower, and what does it need?

The Week

• Mon: The Garden Behind the Wall (Reading) • Tue: My Bit of Earth (Writing & Words) • Wed: Parts of a Plant (Science & Math) • Thu: Bulb or Seed? (Hands-on Project) • Fri: From Seed to Seed (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of The Secret Garden has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade K-3 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Littles (grades K-3), about 30 to 45 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Bean in a Bag
• Sequence cards (How a Bean Grows) and a cut-and-sort page (Bulb or Seed?)
• Writing page: My Bit of Earth
• Hands-on project: A Bit of Earth Cup Garden
• Word search, maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 5 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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