If you have a place. Plant a Tree in the Spring and Once a week let the children go see the progress. You can also let the children draw their own baby tree. Put up a tree in your classroom. Over time change a few leafs a day to orange and brown. See how long it takes for your children to notice. When doing a Unit on Trees have your class go outside and adopt a tree. Then you can take walks to the tree and do activities with the tree. Some activities include:

Measuring how many children (with hands joined) it takes to go around the tree

Talk about what animals could live in the tree

Draw pictures of the trees

Take pictures of the tree (monthly) so the children can see the tree change over time

In conjunction with the book

A Tree Can Be, talk about what a tree can be to your students

Wagon Tree

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Plant a tree with your class in a wagon. This way you can wheel the tree into the classroom to water and out to the playground to get

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