Assembling Components of

Garden Literacy Backpacks

Hey Diana and Blue

Thanks so much for working to assemble these backpacks. Should you have any questions about how to cut, assemble, order, etc., please email me at .

General guidelines:

  1. The best printer at school is the Toshiba one in the office. You can print documents double sided, as you can see in the finished book guide for Desert Animals (provided).
  1. All book guides (except those in the Desert Animals backpack—they’ve already been reformatted. One copy has been printed to be used as a model.) will need the margins reformatted so that they have 1 inch left and right margins. The top and bottom margins are fine as is. Once reformatted, they will fit in the report covers much better without any words hidden in the binding.
  1. Please put one blank page and then the document titled How to use the cards in the front of each report cover. The blank page functions to protect the content pages from tearing….I hope.
  1. Some of the activities that are in black and white should be printed here at Manzo on cardstock (provided in this box—please return when finished). Most of these activities are noted on the lame little paper folder things me and Diana made at the UPS store. Some of them are already printed on floppy paper. If so, please reprint/copy onto card stock.

Guidelines specific to individual backpacks:

Desert Animals, Desert Theme, and Fables, Folktales and Myths

  1. Each of these backpacks has one final version of all the activities assembled for you to use as a model. Desert Animals also has one finished model of the bound book guide in a report folder.
  2. Remember for the Desert Voices animal cards to use anXacto knife to cut out the two frowns that hold the verb cards. Xacto knife is provided—please return when finished!

Harvest

  1. Please laminate the map page and the My Plate page.
  2. There are two pages worth of puppets for Strega Nona. First cut out the characters and watering can around their edges of the characters. Then laminate them. Important to do in this order otherwise the lamination will peel off super easily. Then affix a Popsicle stick to the back of the puppet (with clear tape?). Place each of these puppets in a laminated, labeled envelope.

Math and Language foundations

  1. Laminate map
  2. Each Dice Multiplication game should include 4 dice—2 in one color, 2 in a different color. I’ve got a ton of dice I can provide you with. They’re locked in the closet of my classroom currently. Place instructions and dice in a laminated, labeled envelope.
  3. Word Spinnershould be laminated. I didn’t plan out the arrow thing that should be affixed to the middle, but a brad would work along with either a paper clip or one of the long black arrows that are included in the food web games.

People’s Relationship with Nature

  1. Laminate Yoga Poses card
  2. Cut the Comparative and Superlative Adjective pages into index card size things.

Pollinators

  1. Assembly here is pretty self-explanatory, but don’t hesitate to ask me questions.

School and Community Gardens

  1. Again, pretty self-explanatory…

Science

  1. Again, pretty self-explanatory…
  2. I have one more document to include, but I want to get Michelle to proof its scientific validity first…

Seed Theme

  1. Please trim the Palo Verde Flower Anatomy into a squareish shape and then laminate.
  2. There is a bag of seeds included here. Please empty a variety of 5 or so seed packets, laminate, and include in each set.

Thank you thank you thank you!

-Wes