Esta semana as crianças tornam-se cientistas enquanto investigam o maravilhoso mundo das árvores.
Observar trees using all five senses while learning new vocabulary and asking thoughtful questions.
O que faz uma árvore ser uma árvore?
Tree
Leaf
Branch
Roots
Trunk
Bark
Folhas
Sticks
Pinhas
Lupas
Clipboards
Giz de Cera
Introdução: the Tree Study
Convide as crianças to explore baskets filled with leaves, bark, sticks, pinecones, acorns, and tree cookies. Incentive-as to touch, compare, sort, and describe what they notice.
Bom dia, explorers! Today we begin an exciting journey learning all about trees.
Have you ever climbed a tree or played beneath one?
A Tree Is Niceby Janice May Udry
As crianças comparam leaves by size, color, shape, texture, and smell while using magnifying glasses to observe details.
Construir a forest using wooden blocks and natural materials.
Criar leaf rubbings with crayons and different kinds of leaves.
Explorar books about trees, forests, and woodland animals.
Observar bark, branches, leaves, and seeds with magnifying glasses.
Transform the center into a Forest Ranger Station.
Draw your favorite tree and tell a story about it.
Take a nature walk around the playground or school grounds. Observar different trees and compare their trunks, branches, bark, and leaves.
Pretend to become a growing tree.
Invite families to take a walk together and find one tree near their home. Encourage children to notice the trunk, bark, branches, leaves, and anything living nearby. Ask them to share their discoveries tomorrow.
Observando de Perto at Trees
Convide as crianças to compare several different leaves using magnifying glasses. Incentive-as to notice veins, edges, colors, and shapes.
Do all trees have the same leaves?
Leaf Manby Lois Ehlert
Discuss how leaves come in many different colors, sizes, and shapes, and encourage children to identify similarities and differences.
As crianças classificam leaves by color, size, shape, texture, or edge. Convide-as to explain why they placed each leaf into its group.
Comparar freshly picked leaves with dry leaves. Convide as crianças to bend, twist, smell, and closely observe each one.
Medir leaves using linking cubes, paper clips, or rulers. Comparar the longest, shortest, widest, and narrowest leaves.
Criar leaf collages using leaves collected during outdoor exploration.
Construir a forest filled with trees, animals, and walking paths.
Observar leaf veins with magnifying glasses.
Explorar nonfiction books about forests and trees.
Draw and label different kinds of leaves.
Pretend to work at a nature center helping visitors identify leaves.
Return to yesterday's tree and compare today's observations.
Pretend to be colorful autumn leaves blowing through the wind.
Invite families to collect three different leaves during an evening walk and bring them to school for tomorrow's investigation.
Discovering the Parts of a Tree
Convide as crianças to sort bark, branches, leaves, pinecones, acorns, and seeds according to the part of the tree they came from.
What are the different parts of a tree?
Tell Me, Treeby Gail Gibbons
Explorar the different parts of a tree and discuss why each part is important for helping the tree survive.
As crianças montam a paper tree using pre-cut roots, trunk, branches, and leaves while discussing the purpose of each part.
Convide as crianças to examine several pieces of bark using magnifying glasses. Incentive-as to compare colors, patterns, textures, and thickness.
Contar leaves collected from different trees and compare which groups have more, fewer, or the same number.
Construir a large tree using wooden blocks and natural materials.
Tinta using leaves, branches, and pinecones instead of brushes.
Read books showing different kinds of trees around the world.
Comparar bark, leaves, branches, and seeds with magnifying glasses.
Draw and label the parts of a tree.
Pretend to be park rangers teaching visitors about trees.
Escolha uma árvore e identifiquem cada parte juntos.
Encene o ciclo de vida de uma árvore em crescimento.
Invite families to identify the roots, trunk, bark, branches, and leaves on a neighborhood tree together.
How Trees Help Living Things
Set out toy woodland animals, birds, insects, pinecones, sticks, and leaves. Convide as crianças to build habitats and discuss why animals need trees.
Quem vive nas árvores?
The Busy Treeby Jennifer Ward
Discuss the many animals that depend on trees for food, shelter, and safety.
As crianças usam recycled materials to create homes for birds, squirrels, insects, or woodland animals.
Observar pictures of birds, squirrels, insects, raccoons, and owls. Discuss how each animal depends on trees for food, shelter, protection, or raising their young.
Construir a woodland habitat using blocks and natural materials.
Criar birds and nests using paper, feathers, and twigs.
Read books about forest animals.
Comparar feathers, bark, leaves, and pinecones.
Pretend to be forest rangers helping wildlife.
Contar birds, nests, acorns, and pinecones.
Pesquisar for signs of wildlife living in or around trees including nests, feathers, holes, insects, and squirrel activity.
Mover like woodland animals.
Invite families to watch for birds, squirrels, butterflies, or insects using trees during an evening walk.
Celebrando Nossas Descobertas sobre Árvores
Convide as crianças to revisit all of the natural materials collected throughout the week and create a classroom nature museum.
What was your favorite thing you learned about trees?
Show children leaves, bark, branches, seeds, and pinecones. Convide-as to identify each object and explain how it is connected to a tree.
Criar one large classroom tree together. Each child adds a leaf with their name or a picture showing something they learned.
I learned that trees...
Record each child's response and read them together during closing circle.
Visit your favorite tree one last time this week. Comparar what children noticed on Segunda-feira with what they notice today.
Celebre a semana encenando a vida completa de uma árvore, da semente à árvore gigante da floresta.
Record children's observations, vocabulary, interests, and questions to guide Semana Dois.
Encourage families to visit a favorite tree over the weekend and continue observing how it changes throughout the seasons.
Throughout this week children became scientists, artists, readers, mathematicians, and explorers while investigating the amazing world of trees. Through play, observation, conversation, and discovery, children built foundational knowledge that will continue throughout the remainder of this study.
During Semana Dois children investigate how trees grow, what trees need to survive, and how weather and seasons affect them.
