I then use the empty garden to begin a lesson on growing plants. As a class, we talk about what plants need to grow and then decide what vegetables we'll have in our garden.
Students then get to work drawing their own vegetables to plant in our kindergarden.
When the cards are done, I write students' names along the bottoms and a date of the month in the top corner. Then I clip them to our large calendar board. During our daily morning meetings, the student who created that day's card gets to lead the class in saying the date. They begin by writing a prediction on a slip of paper and pasting it on half of a white paper plate. Next, they create a sun by cutting out triangles along the edge of a yellow paper plate.