Our School Garden

Pre-K – 2nd Grade 

Learning + Food Objectives:
Students will learn how food and the environment are interconnected while reading Our School Garden by Rick Swann and identifying point of view, noticing how the narrator connects to the garden and his peers, and what he learns about how to grow food in a garden.

Common Core Standards:
Common Core English Language Arts

Point of view in stories
Key details in a text

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6
Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Lesson written in partnership with Readers to Eaters.