If you have visited our classroom, then you have probably noticed the amazing trees that surround us. Division 8 has adopted one of these trees as "Our Class Tree". It is the big, beautiful maple which stands between our modular and the playground. Each month, we will go outside as a class and observe the changes that our class tree is going through. As scientists, this will help us understand the changes of the seasons and their effects on plants. We will study the bark, the branches, the sap and, of course, the leaves.
This week we studied our class tree for the first time. We got up close and admired the stripey bark, the big hole in the trunk and the patches of moss. We found roots that are peaking up from the soil which we could even stand on, as if they were branches. We had to stand really far back in order to see the top of the tree. We noticed that some of the branches were shaped like the letter Y. The green, yellow, orange and brown leaves dripped water on our heads and in our eyes!We went back into the classroom and immediately started drawing a realistic picture of our tree. Here are a few examples:
Hi Martha - it was great to meet you at this afternoon's meeting and learn that you too are writing a blog about your class.
ReplyDeleteBrooklyn StrongStart has been visiting forests a lot this year. Not just the one behind our school but to Cumberland and the latest, Lerwick Woods in Courtenay.
Here is a post about our latest adventure
http://strongstart.blogspot.ca/2012/10/welcome-to-fairy-lane.html
Hope to keep in touch.
Maureen