How do trees grow preschool lesson
Future Ticia here jumping into the way back time machine to 2009, when I was homeschooling preschool and had much simpler science lessons.
The kids are all really into questions right now, here’s how our drive down to the Children’s Museum went:
What makes the road Mommy?
What makes the trees?
What makes the houses?
What makes the clouds?
What do clouds do?
As you can see it was a nonstop supply of questions, and some of them were repeated after being answered another couple of times. They really latched onto my answer for trees though.
I explained that God made the trees, but trees need water, dirt, and sun to grow. Then I said we’d learn more about it when we got home (as I frantically thought, now what will I do, I don’t have a how do trees grow preschool lesson sitting at home, I’ve got some elementary science lessons from my teaching days).
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Supplies used for this preschool science lesson
glue, scissors, pipsqueak markers, printable in the subscriber section (join my newsletter here)
How do trees grow preschool lesson
Luckily the answer came in the e-mail. I’ve been chosen to be a tester for Teacher Bookbags, and their new August book bag was available for preview. I opened it up and the first theme was trees! SCORE! So, I printed off the sheet that perfectly fit what I needed.
Sadness, since then, as near as I can tell, the company has gone out of business, and is no longer selling their product, so here are a few similar items (not all for preschool, most are great for elementary):
[Deleted reference to a now-defunct product and how it has a great cutting practice section]
Now, back to that whole how do trees grow thing. There was a paper for that too! (Since that product is now defunct I have created a new cut-and-paste page, that is now in my Subscriber’s Library under preschool science)
According to Princess rain goes up. She was quite insistent that her rain cloud went on the ground and pointed up. Fine, that works, you’re wrong my stubborn daughter, but I’m not going to fight you right this second because you’ll quickly learn you’re wrong.
My addition to the project was to have them glue dirt on the bottom of the page. I was very impressed with the boys very carefully putting glue only on the line that had been drawn on the page to represent dirt. I think their skills have improved a lot recently. It used to be these were just big blobs of glue.
As a side note, I’ll be doing more with trees in a month or so because our theme in a few weeks is “leaf.” I just happened to do this activity now and thought it was really cool.
Some more “naturey” ideas after you’ve learned how a tree grows
Originally published July 27, 2009 and now republished
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