Kindergarten scientists are hard at work making observations about the evergreen tree branches and cones! We used our sense of sight, smell, and touch to make and discuss our observations of evergreens. After examining our subjects, we came together to create a chart of our observations. Although I am badly allergic to these trees, I think it's so important for kids to experience REAL science. Next year I'll start taking my allergy medicine a week in advance...haha! Later in the week we read books about evergreens and discussed facts we learned about them. Before writing and drawing about evergreen trees, we went on a little trip around our school grounds to search for trees. We found several trees and used our vocabulary cards as a checklist to determine if the trees were evergreen or not. Sure enough, we found one! Thanks to one of our awesome volunteers, Mrs. Marlene, the kiddos made these sweet little trees to decorate our "Masterpieces" board. The kiddos also had an opportunity to cut out a paper evergreen tree and use the needles from an evergreen branch as a paint brush with another fabulous volunteer, Mrs. Laurie! I wish I would have gotten pictures of this.
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AuthorHi! I'm Katie Flanary. I've been teaching for seven years and absolutely love it! I'm excited to start my eighth year making this my fourth year in kindergarten. Categories
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