Table 1.

Monthly garden and classroom activities for each target crop for the Watch Me Grow intervention

Crop	Activity	Description	Garden	Classroom
Lettuce	Reading	The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach by Feerick & Hillenbrand		•
	Garden	Spinach spies: chart planting, nurturing, growth and harvest	•
	Classroom	Seed sorting: identifying lettuce and spinach seeds		•
	Taste Testing	Spinach stackers taste test		•
Strawberries	Reading	Monsters Don’t Eat Broccoli by Hicks		•
	Garden	What part do we eat? Discover edible parts of many crops	•
	Classroom	Broccoli friends: creating broccoli friend from various shapes		•
	Taste Testing	Broccoli mops and stalk sticks with healthy dipping sauces		•
Spinach	Reading	Do Lions Like Lettuce? by Butterfield		•
	Garden	Lettuce sprouts: graphing lettuces by color and size	•
	Classroom	Cut and color a paper salad		•
	Taste Testing	“Lettuce do a taste testing” of various types of lettuce		•
Broccoli	Reading	First Strawberries by Bruchac		•
	Garden	Where’s my strawberry? Discover stages of strawberry growth	•
	Classroom	“I’m a Strawberry” song to learn about plants and harvest		•
	Taste Testing	Fun with strawberry smoothies		•