Phonemic Awareness in the Garden

The oldest pea ever found, was in Thailand and it was estimated to be over 3,000 years old!

I recently I had a blog post about starting seeds with kids. If you happened to start peas you’re in luck!

If you’re a homesteading, homeschooling mom or dad, and you want to incorporate the garden in your young child’s life this is for you! This can be easily adapted for your needs.

This activity is intended for children around age 5.

If it’s possible, start pea seeds with your child a few days before this to get them interested in what the little seed they just planted will produce.

To introduce your child to your topic, show them this video about about the “Poddington Peas” who live down at the bottom of the garden.

After getting their interesting about peas, introduce the ABC book LMNO Peas by Keith Baker. If you do not have the book I have attached a digital read aloud for you.

Print out the 4 different pea pod cards. G, P, H, F are the letters on the pea pod cards. Each letter should have 3 peas with imagines the correspond with the sound. For example, the pea pod with the letter f, has a pea with an image

After your child pieces the pods together from the set you can move on to my pea counting activity in my next blog post.

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