Webinar–Read & Grow with Master Gardeners in Collaboration with Books Are GEMS

This Week’s Books and Activity

On June 5th, for our Read & Grow with Master Gardeners series, El Paso Master Gardener M. J. Tangney will read two books to her audience. The first book is The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller. While the reason for a flower is to manufacture seeds, Ruth Heller shares a lot more about the parts of plants and their functions in her rhyming text and beautifully illustrated style. Heller is the writer, researcher, and illustrator of The Reason for a Flower.

The second book to be read Saturday morning is Eva the Beekeeper by Jane Manners. In this story we learn all about Eva’s beekeeping journey. She shows what to wear to keep safe, all the steps to get honey, and why the bees make honey.  So, please join us to learn about our friends in our gardens, flowers, and bees!

Free Activity Resources and Book Raffle

Following the stories, Master Gardener Alison Wells will instruct children on how to be a detective or a gumshoe in their own garden. They’ll be shown how to use the Master Gardeners’ Read & Grow Dossier, keep track of their garden findings, and will get the opportunity to share their own garden-finding stories. To download a copy of the Master Gardeners’ Read & Grow Dossier for home printing, visit https://txmg.org/elpaso/master-gardeners-read-grow-dossier/ .

Visit the Books Are GEMS website to download other activity sheets related to this Saturday’s books.

Stay to the end to be eligible for the book raffle. We will raffle off The Reason for a Flower to one lucky kid attending on Saturday.

Read & Grow with Master Gardeners is presented in collaboration with our local Books Are GEMS’ Story Time Saturdays. Find more information at http://www.booksaregems.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/booksaregems.

Read & Grow with Master Gardeners
will be on Zoom & Facebook Live
Every first Saturday of the Month at 10:30 a.m. through 2021*
*excluding holiday weekends
June 5
August 7
October 2
November 6
December 4

 At Story Time, Click to Join on Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/7088769805
Passcode: Books
Meeting ID: 708 876 9805

For audio only, check here for the local phone number: https://zoom.us/u/abdvWNIsV
You can always watch previous Story Time Saturdays by visiting the
Books Are Gems Facebook Page.
https://www.facebook.com/booksaregems

El Paso County Master Gardener Presenters

M. J. Tangney relocated here to El Paso three years ago after having lived many years in Houston and Victoria, TX. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Education (BS), Nursing (RN), and Social Work (LMSW). She worked many years in all three areas such as MHMR, hospice, etc., as an educator, RN, and Director of Quality. Ms. Tangney is now an El Paso County Master Gardener and is the chairperson of the Master Gardeners’ Rose Committee for the El Paso Municipal Rose Garden.

Master Gardener Alison Wells is a fourth-generation El Pasoan.  She recently moved back to town to be closer to family after living in Oklahoma, Europe, and California for the last 26 years. Currently serving as a farmer for her family’s pomegranate orchard, Alison is learning the virtues of time, patience, and the love for growing plants and living things. In her professional career, Alison is an artist, event coordinator, youth development coach, and community builder. Alison loves to learn and learns best by doing things.

Image sources: Courtesy of M. J. Tangney and Alison Wells.