In this activity, students (Kindergarten through second grade) received a picture of a bare tree and its branches divided into four squares. We labeled each square by one of the four seasons. With crayons and watercolors, we discussed what the sky looks like during each season and colored or painted ideally.
The first "part" of the tree we worked on was Fall. We glued small bits of red, yellow, orange, and brown construction paper down to resemble fall leaves. For summer, we colored bold green leaves over the branches with marker and dotted red apples on with paint on Q-tips. Spring's square included scrunched up balls of pink and red construction paper to resemble apples on the apple tree. Finally for winter, we outlined the branches in glitter and placed cotton balls at the bottom to resemble snow.
This is a great lesson for Johnny Appleseed in social studies, an overview of the seasons in science, or a descriptive lesson for language arts. An extension of this activity would be doing the same thing, but labeling the snow, apples, grass, etc. in Spanish, French, German or any other foreign language (example: the sun: el sol). A similar diagram could be created with the body systems (digestive, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular) with modifications.
The first "part" of the tree we worked on was Fall. We glued small bits of red, yellow, orange, and brown construction paper down to resemble fall leaves. For summer, we colored bold green leaves over the branches with marker and dotted red apples on with paint on Q-tips. Spring's square included scrunched up balls of pink and red construction paper to resemble apples on the apple tree. Finally for winter, we outlined the branches in glitter and placed cotton balls at the bottom to resemble snow.
This is a great lesson for Johnny Appleseed in social studies, an overview of the seasons in science, or a descriptive lesson for language arts. An extension of this activity would be doing the same thing, but labeling the snow, apples, grass, etc. in Spanish, French, German or any other foreign language (example: the sun: el sol). A similar diagram could be created with the body systems (digestive, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular) with modifications.
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