Trees in Our Schoolyard

We are exploring the trees in our schoolyard through walks in the woods. We have gathered seeds and nuts from trees, as well as leaves. The photos show children sorting leaves they collected. They used many descriptive words as they worked in pairs, referring to pointed leaves, soft leaves, smelly leaves, long leaves etc. We designed this unit to integrate science and math activities and plan to revisit the trees in different stages during the year. At the same time we are sorting, describing and matching similarities and differences in our math unit, as we look at buttons and attribute blocks.

I will try to add the photos at a later date. There's a glitch in the download of the photos.

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