The Official Site of Square Foot Gardening and Mel Bartholomew, Originator and Author

GAME # 1

Write down the list of 8 vegetables in the first column on page 224 of the Square Foot Gardening book in alphabetical order. If you don’t have the book, here they are: lettuce, peas, cauliflower, parsley, spinach, onions, cabbage, and broccoli.

Question #1 - How many of those 8 have a double letter in their spelling?

Question #2 - How many of those 8 have double letters together?

Question #3 - How many have those double letters separated?

Question #4 - Count the number of letters in each vegetable’s name.

   lettuce: peas: cauliflower: parsley:

  spinach: onions: cabbage: broccoli:

Question #5 - Which have the most? ______ Least? ______

Question #6 - Do you know how to get the average?

Question #7 - Can you think of any more games you could play using the                         spelling of these 8 vegetables?

Now you can check with your parents to see how well they could do on these questions

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