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How can wind be used as
energy in the garden?

    Recommended children's literature:  "The Wind's Garden" by Bethany Roberts

    Opening milkweed seed pods and blowing the seeds from our palms help illustrate how the wind can plant its own garden.  The wind helps carry new seeds to safe soil so that they can start all over again. 

    We created paper wind socks to tell the story of the wind's role in planting a garden.  When the tissue paper streamers blow outside our windows, we know that somewhere the wind's energy is making a garden of its own.

Steven: "I like the wind.  It blows very hard.  It makes the seeds grow into the dirt."
Johnie: "The wind!  There goes the seeds!  The sun makes the whole thing shine."
Hayden: "The wind is helping the flowers grow and is making a garden.  I'm waving to the wind."
Sarafina: "The wind is blowing everything around.  It's blowing little dandelions in the air."

 

 

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