Garden Day Classroom Transformation

This Garden Day spring classroom transformation includes a variety of themed activities to support an amazingly fun day – or even multiple days – of learning! We’ve done the heavy lifting and included everything you need for this winter theme day – from a parent note template to a student completion certificate, and all the fun activities in between!

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Need a fun springtime activity?

Theme days are a fun change from the routine. With this snow globe classroom transformation pack, it will be quick and easy to implement with simple prep!

Want motivating skill review activities?

All of the activities are tied to standards and designed with second grade skill review in mind! Students won’t even know they are learning and reviewing because it’s fun!

Looking for an affordable celebration?

Between this pack and a trip to the dollar store, you’ll have an exciting celebration that isn’t rough on your wallet.

GARDEN DAY TRANSFORMATION

Morning Work

•Garden I Spy & graphing page

Reading Lesson

•Read Alouds: The Curious Garden and/or Up the Garden, Down in the Dirt

•Comprehension questions

•Worksheet & activities: Ripple effect, main idea & details, character traits, planting word seeds, who lives in the garden?, searching in the dirt word search, catching garden bugs word spinner, garden movement, and would you rather writing prompt

Small Groups

•Growing shades of meaning

•Phonics partner game – growing rows (long o)

Literacy Centers

•Syllable gardens – open & closed syllables

•Picture a garden – fact, opinion & more

•Berry baskets – multiple meanings

Brain Break

•Nature walk scavenger hunt

Math Lesson

•Garden arrays

•Garden of fractions & fraction review slides

•Growing a garden of problems – 3-digit addition

•Numbers with gnomes – 2-digit addition

•Place value garden craft

Math Centers

•Purchasing plants – counting coins

•Measurement garden – inches, feet, yards

Science

•My book about plants booklet

•Seed growing project & observation pages

Social Studies

•Famous gardens around the world activity

•History of garden tools mini booklet

Writing

•Growing a garden

•How to plant a garden

•Would you rather?

Art

•If I were a garden gnome art

•Garden craft ideas

Extras & Management

•Spring bingo activity

•Certificate, parent note, brag tag & snack tag

•Posters, banner and checklist

•Garden day behavior system

Classroom teachers are loving our classroom transformations!

“This resource is AMAZING!!! I just love transforming my classroom for my students and this resource was a huge help! My students loved the activities that went along with it! I would recommend this resource to anyone that does classroom transformation or anyone that is wondering about it! This will save you many many hours of prep! It’s an awesome resource!” – Heidi T.

“This is a great resource to use when doing a room transformation. It has things broken down in easy to print and use without much fuss. My students absolutely loved using these resources while have so much fun learning.” – Jennifer A.

I can’t wait to hear how this room transformation goes with your students! Send me a message after you download and let me know about your special day. Happy teaching!