Garden Growing Sensory Table

Garden Growing Sensory Table

The Garden Growing Sensory Table is a rich educational resource designed to enhance the skills of preschool and kindergarten-aged students in subjects like writing, math, and reading. This resource is a 24-page printable PDF file that merges hands-on learning activities and curriculum content in an exceptional way.

Sensory Play Integration

Teachers can integrate playful sensory experiences into their thematic units of plants, spring or farm with the Garden Growing Sensory Table. Students get to engage physically by planting and caring for flowers using gardening tools which adds excitement to their learning process. For the most optimal sensory interaction that stimulates discussions about colors and sorting activities, it is recommended to use dry beans mix as filler material but other alternatives such as kinetic sand, seeds or brown rice may also be used.

Whose Seed Mini-Book

A unique component of this package is a mini-book named ‘Whose Seed?’. It challenges students on what plant they think each seed will become - fostering critical thinking while building upon existing knowledge about specific seeds turning into specific plants.

Literacy Development Tools

• Garden word reference cards: These cards provided can be displayed near your sensory table creating conducive environment for peer-to-peer interactions hence promoting descriptive language use when referring to their own created gardens.
• Drawing activity page: This page encourages young learners' creativity while enhancing their spatial awareness by allowing them to interpret their own vision of gardens.

Numerical Activities

In addition, there are Mathematical activities included that helps children understand quantities conceptually .

Potential Uses Our product provides flexibility for teachers ranging from everyday classroom exploration during whole group instruction periods, to focused instruction periods involving smaller groups, to even extending further as engaging homework assignments. Engage students in dynamic STEM-based concepts surrounding life sciences while also focusing on foundation literacy math skills with this interactive tactile-based learning resource.