Prep Gardens

We read the text Uno's Garden last week and responded to it by creating our own gardens. Each child drew what would be in their gardens (animals, plants and shelter) and added labels. We created a word wall where children found their desired word and copied it onto their sheet. Children were also encouraged to have a go at using the alphabet strips to assist in identifying the key sounds in the word.

They worked on these during Learning Agreement time.



A little bit about the book Uno's Garden by Graeme Base

Uno's Garden is a picture book written and illustrated by Australian children's author Graeme Base. The story features themes of environmental degradation, conservation of nature and habitat, and extinction. It also features arithmetic, and at the back of the book there are instructions for several number games relating to the book. It also contains a game in the book where you have to find an amount of plants, animals, buildings and sometimes one snortelpig. All of the animals and plants featured in the book were invented by the author. Some of the animals included are the snortlepig, moopaloop, lumpybum, and frinklepod. The human voice of the story is that of the aptly named Uno, the first man to move into the forest. The story continues as other people follow Uno in moving into the forest, and as the number of people and buildings increase, the number of plants and animals decrease.