Video transcript – Connecting with practice: Enjoying the vegetable garden 

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This video features a family day care educator and three children in the educator’s vegetable garden. It shows the value of small groups and promoting cooperation to support learning opportunities.

00:00 – 00:05
Audio: [Music]
Visual description: The ECRH logo followed by the video title appear on a white background: ECRH, Early Childhood Resource Hub. Connection with practice: Enjoying the vegetable garden.

00:06 – 00:53
Audio: [Ambient sounds of children playing in an outdoor area of a children’s education and care service.]
Educator 1: Maya, you and Crystal can pick a carrot, if you like, but make sure it’s a really big one. Just a second. I think there’s a big one up here, is there? 
Maya: This is big.
Educator 1: Oh, look at this one, Crystal.
Crystal: Whoa!
Educator 1: Look at that. OK, just move back so we can see how big it is. Do you think that one would be a big carrot yet?
Maya: Yeah.
Educator 1: Alright. Well, can you hold it together?
Maya: Yeah. 
Educator 1: Crystal, do you want...
Crystal: I want one too. 
Educator 1: Alright, well, you pull that one out and Maya can pull this one.
Maya: That one's not big enough.
Educator 1: It’s not big enough? What about this one Crystal’s got?
Maya: Oh, let’s see, let’s see, let’s see.
Child [from off-screen]: It’s hard.
Educator 1 [from off-screen]: Hard. Can you do it? 
Visual description: In the outdoor area of a children’s education and care service, Maya and Crystal, are playing while an educator holds a child on her hip. Other children in the area play independently. The two girls run toward a vegetable garden, passing a scarecrow in a flowered hat. They check the carrot plants while the educator holding the child follows them over to the garden bed. The educator helps Maya and Crystal find a carrot to pick.

00:54 – 01:04
Audio: [Ambient sounds of children playing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Educator 1: Ooh!
Maya: Don’t pull it, don’t pull it.
Educator 1: Here you go. Just pull hard. Is it going to come out? I’ll give it a bit of a move. You go. Pull. 
Visual description: Maya wiggles the carrot plant and Crystal pulls at the carrot leaves. The educator pulls out the carrot, but leaves it in the garden so Crystal can pick it up.

01:05 – 01:33
Audio: [Ambient sounds of children playing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Educator 1: Oh! What’s that?
Maya: That’s tiny!
Educator 1: That’s a tiny one, isn’t it? That’s a round one. Look at that one. That almost... Look at that.
Crystal: That is a big carrot. 
Educator 1: It’s a big carrot. Do you want to take that home tonight?
Crystal: Yeah. 
Educator 1: Look at that. Do you think you can cook it for dinner? Want to take it home for Mum?
Maya: But first you need to wash it.
Educator 1: We do need to wash it first. Of course we do. Are there any snow peas? No snow peas.
Maya: No snow peas?
Visual description: Crystal holds the carrot plant with its three carrots up to the camera. Maya dusts the dirt from her hands as the educator stands beside them holding the child on her hip.

01:34 – 02:03
Audio: [Ambient sounds of bird chirping and cooing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Educator 1: Alright, now could you girls water the garden for me?
Maya: Yes.
Maya: Your hat fell off, Mum.
Educator 1: I know. It keeps blowing off in the wind, darling. Crystal, do you want... Can you water some of the...
Maya: Can I?
Educator 1: Yep. Can you water some of the carrots, please? Because they need a lot of water because it was very hot yesterday. OK, I’ll hold your carrots. We’ll put those over here. 
Visual description: The educator moves to the other side of the garden area to get a large green bucket sitting on top of a barbeque grill. She carries the bucket to the garden bed and fills two small watering cans for Crystal and Maya by plunging them into the bucket. The educator takes the carrots from Crystal and moves out of frame while the two girls water the garden.  

02:04 – 02:38
Audio: [Ambient sounds of wind chimes, birds cooing and children playing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Crystal: Maya! You water this one.
Educator 2 [from off-screen]: Aren't they beautiful?
Educator 1 [from off-screen]: Hey, look! Hey, darling, you can play with the balls. Do you want to do this? Alright. Want to play with that one? 
Child [from off-screen]: Here!
Educator 1 [from off-screen]: Yeah. We going to throw the ball? Here you go. Look. Can you do that?
Visual description: Crystal and Maya water the vegetable garden with small colourful watering cans. They refill the watering cans from the green bucket.

02:39 – 02:53
Audio: [Ambient sounds of wind chimes, birds cooing and children playing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Educator 1: Oh, look! The flowers look beautiful.
Crystal: Look.
Educator 1: They’re growing.
Crystal: Look here.
Educator 1: Abi. It’s gone white. What’s that?
Educator 1: It’s white.
Educator 1: What is it, darling, Abi?
Educator 1: It’s gone white. 

Visual description: The educator returns to the vegetable garden holding the same child on her hip. The educator lowers the child gently to the ground and sits on the garden bed wall. Another girl, Abi, has joined Maya, Crystal, the other child and the educator at the garden bed. Maya stands near the flowers growing near the scarecrow. Crystal examines a carrot as she stands near the other child and the educator seated on the wall. 

02:54 – 03:24
Audio: [Ambient sounds of the wind and birds cooing in the outdoor area of the service.]
[Maya excitedly calls to the educator.]
Educator 1: OK.
Maya: Look at this one. It’s grown bigger. 
Educator 1: Is it? OK, let’s have a look. Look how big. That's bigger. And look at this one. I think we could probably cut that one today.
Crystal: And that.
Educator 1: How many can we see? How many broccoli are there?
Maya: One, two, three.
Educator 1 [from off-screen]: Three broccoli. That’s fantastic.
Crystal: What’s that one?
Educator 1: That’s the marigold. Remember what the marigold does?
Maya: It keeps all the bugs away from the garden!
Educator 1: That's right. Now, we’ve got some eggshells for our garden too. What does the eggshell do? 
Visual description: Maya walks to the large broccoli plants on the far side of the garden. Crystal and the educator join her. 

03:25 – 03:55
Audio: [Ambient sounds of the wind and birds cooing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Educator 1: Oh! Look at this. Maya, Abi.
Crystal: What’s it doing?
Educator 1: Look what I found on our garden. You’ve got to be very quiet. Abigail, come here. Look. Look what this is. Can you see that?
Maya: What is it?
Educator 1: It's a cricket. 
Maya: [Gasps] A cricket?
Educator 1: It’s a cricket on our spinach. Can you see this, Abi? 
Abi: A cricket?
Educator 1: There’s a cricket on our spinach. It must like spinach, do you think? He could be like Popeye.
Maya: He’s going like this.
Educator 1: Yeah, I know. Do you think he's going to eat it?
Maya: Yeah. 
Visual description: Maya, Crystal and the educator move along the garden bed, stopping at the spinach plants. The educator crouches and pulls back a spinach leaf, revealing a large brown cricket to Crystal. The educator sits on the wall and motions to Maya and Abi to join them. The four children and the educator look at the cricket. Abi and the other child walk away to another part of the outdoor area as the educator, Maya and Crystal continue to study the cricket.

03:56 – 04:26
Audio: [Ambient sounds of the wind and birds cooing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Educator 1: Oh, look. 
Child: A cricket? 
[The girls laugh.]
Educator 1: [Chuckles] Look at him. He doesn’t want to get off. Look.
Maya: Oh! Yucky, yucky, yucky.
Educator 1: What’s that?
Maya: Yucky! 
Educator 1: Oh, he’s beautiful. Look at his long legs. And can you see his eyes?
Maya: Cutie!
Educator 1: He is cute, isn't he?
Maya: Cutie, cutie.
Educator 1: But what we might do… we might put him somewhere else so he doesn’t eat our vegetables. Would that be OK?
Maya: Yes.
Educator 1: Let’s go find another spot in the garden. 
Visual description: The educator carefully removes the cricket from the spinach and shows it to Crystal and Maya. She gently cradles the cricket in her hand and brings it closer to the children to study.

04:27 – 04:37
Audio: [Music]
Visual description: The ECRH logo followed by the video production credits and copyright appear on a white background: ECRH, Early Childhood Resource Hub. www.ecrh.edu.au. Copyright 2015 Commonwealth of Australia. Source: National Quality Standard Professional Learning Program – Early Childhood Australia.

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