All About Trees!

Hello students and parents! I apologize again for a delay in posting. Some of you know I was very sick this week and I am finally feeling like I have some energy! Hopefully today marks the start of being "back in a routine" with a weekly post made by Friday each week.

For the past 3 weeks we have been studying trees! The students have had so much fun during this thematic unit.

This unit included:
- Several books on trees
- "Adopting" a class tree (right outside our window!)
- Bean in a cup experiment (To learn about roots.)
- Building a tree by assembling the parts in our tree journals
- Celery experiment to see how sap moves through the trunk to branches and leaves
- A search for items that come from trees
- Leaf rubbings
- Bark rubbings
- Tree observations
- Finger painting the seasons of a tree
- Fall watercolor leaf art

Take a look at some pictures of our work and us observing our tree!

I hope you have already heard a lot about our tree unit! Ask your students to share more! You can go on nature walks at home to see the beautiful fall leaves, look at different kinds of trees, collect leaves and so much more.

Next week it's off to the pumpkin patch! I look forward to sharing pictures from our trip with you next Friday. We will also begin a 3-week unit on being healthy. Be on the look out for ways you can help support your child as we learn how to eat right, exercise and prevent the spread of germs! (We don't all need this cold I have!) Have a wonderful weekend!