How it works
This is a pretend garden story.
In the pretend garden, a coin seed grows if we water it and wait.
A seed needs water, sun and a little time.
Worked examples
Plant it
- Pip digs a little hole.
- Pip puts the coin in, plop, and covers it with soil.
- Now the coin is a money seed.
Water and wait
- Pip waters the seed, splash, splash.
- The sun shines down, warm and bright.
- Pip waits, and hums a happy song.
It grows
- One morning something green pokes up.
- A tiny sprout opens two little leaves.
- More coins hang on it, but only in the pretend garden.
A taste of the worksheets
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more and an answer key.
- What came up after Pip waited? š³ A tall tree / š A shoe / š± A tiny sprout
- True or false? Did one coin grow into more coins in Pip's pretend garden?
- True or false? Do coins grow on plants in a real garden?
- True or false? Is waiting part of growing?
- Which one helps a seed grow? š„ a drum / ā½ a ball / š§ water
Words to know
- seed
- A tiny thing that can grow into a plant.
- sprout
- A tiny green shoot.
- soil
- The earth a seed sleeps in.
- pretend
- Not real, but fun to imagine.
Watch out for
- This is a pretend garden. Coins do not grow on plants in a real garden.
- A seed does not grow right away. It takes waiting.
- A ball, a snail or a toy car does not help a seed grow.
Try it
Is the coin garden real or pretend?
pretend. Pip's coin seed grows only in the story.
What does a seed need?
water, sun and time. Pip also put it in soil.
Does a seed grow right away?
no. Pip had to wait.
What came up from the soil?
a sprout. A tiny green sprout.
For grown-ups
With a grown-up, plant a real seed in a pot, water it every day and watch it grow.
Plant a real seed in a pot together, and say that the coin seed was only a pretend story, because real coins do not grow in the ground.