Tree Homes

Amber Gilardi & Sarah Richardson

We will be doing an activity in the classroom where the students will be learning all about how trees live and how they look, feel, sound, and smell. The children will make a cardboard tree of their own and compare it to the shapes and size of a living tree. The children will also be learning about the animals that would reside in the trees.

The children will first observe a living tree on the school’s campus. They will observe the tree’s branches, leaves, trunk and holes. The children will then be able to begin building their cardboard tree with the thought of the real tree in their minds. Finally, the children will compare their cardboard tree to the living tree they observed.