Gardens with insects, seeds, and some birds,
Are connected with vines and position words!
Up, down, and all around,
Come read and see what else can be found!

A poem in Up, Down, and Around winds through a garden full of fun and activity. Some plants grow up. Some grown down. Some twine around and around. Perfect for PreK-1, Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres is a bright introduction to prepositions and foods that grow on vines, above the ground, and below the ground!

Predictable text enables children to join in your reading aloud. You can even sing the text to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

Internet Extensions:

Author Katherine Ayers
Fingerplays and Songs
Munchable Math
Word Patterns
Prepositions in the Story
How Do Vegetables Grow?
Interactive Read Aloud Script

Seeds, Flowers, Plants, Gardens, and More
Big Sunflower Song
I Had a Little Nut Tree
Kids Valley Garden
CyberBee: How Does Your Gardener Grow
Flower and Garden Songs and Poems
Plants Activities on the Internet
Decomposers

Literature Connections:

Busy in the Garden by George Shannon with Kids Wings Unit in Stepstone Stories

Pick, Pull, Snap Where Once a Flower Bloomed
by Lola M. Schaefer with Kids Wings Unit in Book Bridges

The Beeman by Laurie Krebs with Kids Wings Unit available in Reading Seeds

One Child, One Seed by Kathryn Cave
with a Kids Wings Unit available in Book Bridges

Seeds, Seeds, Seeds by Nancy Wallace with a Kids Wings Unit available in Book Buddies

Bread Comes to Life by George Levenson with Kids Wings Unit available in Springboards

A 4-page Unit for Up, Down, and Around is part of a collection of 50 units in Stepstone Stories
The Unit Contains:
Where Does it Grow?
Around and Down
First, Second, or Third
First Letters