This week our lessons have been all about trees! We started with a seed and learned about roots, trunks {inside and out}, branches, leaves {and other things that grow on branches}!
I had a little fun here with L-Bug because anytime painting is involved she gets a little excited. So before letting her dig in and grab her art smock I had her observe what she saw in our work box and then tell me what she thought we were going to be doing! She was able to name everything in the box... but she though we were going to eat the seeds :)
She had a lot of fun painting her apple, but I think she had even more fun playing with one of our Mother Goose Time manipulatives seeds! She had fun "decorating" her name with seeds and kept telling me those were her letters for her name.
Then we did some seed exploration and we sorted the seeds and looked at them with the magnifying glass. We put our senses to good use with these food safe items and we used our eyes, ears, noses and months to explore them! How do the seeds look different from each other? How do the seeds smell? What do the seeds sound like when you drop them into the pan? How do they taste?
L-Bug was so excited to pull her Little Journal out of her work box! She now LOVES tracing her name and is eager to get into the pages of her journal to trace and color!
On the day we talked about the tree trunk, bark and the inside rings of a tree we built our own "forest" with our Melissa and Doug blocks! L-Bug LOVES stacking blocks so this was perfect. We used our imaginations and mad up a "hatchet" to chop at our trees with as we read through a story about Honest George chopping down his father's cherry tree.
The Melissa and Doug blocks came in our September Citrus Lane Subscription box along with several other fun toys! See the post about it here. But while we were taking down our "forest" I realized this would be a great way to move into the rings of a tree! As we stacked the nesting blocks together I realized they were in a sense making rings inside of each other the way a tree has rings inside.
So we talked a little about rings on the inside of a tree and counted the rings of the blocks and then moved onto our next activity about the rings inside of a tree!
We had a busy week and we combined our branches and leaves day. One of our discussion questions was "What do branches hold?" I was very surprised at L-Bug's outside the box thinking when she started saying things like, "birdies nests, squirrels, kids", etc! After she told me all of those great things I asked "What GROWS on branches?"! And we talked about leaves and fruit and pine cones lol.
Here is her fingerprint painting <3
There were so many other fun activities we did this week it's so hard to choose which to write about. But I do want to share two of our books from Story Time this week! We haven't gotten to our new Mother Goose Time book for this months theme, but I pulled out an MGT book from past lessons "Timber!" to go along with the story we read about Honest George chopping down the cherry tree! We have read this a few times in the past couple of months and now L-Bug knows when to holler TIMBER!
The other book L-Bug really enjoyed was "Trees and Forests". We didn't read the words and honestly I don't agree with most of the beginning text anyway, but there are amazing illustrations of the cycle of trees in this book! It was fun to unfold flaps and see bugs crawling through the roots! Or to open up the side and see the a seed grow into an oak! And there was even a page with different textures of bark on it to feel and rub :)
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