The Seasons of an Apple Tree

We have jumped right into the new year in first grade. December was filled with Christmas Around the world, Candlelight, and fun Christmas activities, but we are ready to get back to the routine and keep learning. In science we have started a new unit, Seasons and Day and Night. The children will explore what causes the seasons to change and day/night cycle. To begin our new unit we discussed things we do during the daytime,at night, and during the different seasons. We took a closer look at an apple tree and how it looks like during the four seasons. I put the children into groups and instructed them to become the tree they were assigned - an apple tree in winter, spring, summer, or fall. At first they thought I wanted them to become trees while standing and looked at me very puzzled. Once I explained they were going to lay down to show the season it was clearer to them. They had fun pretending to be trees! To wrap up our discuss and review our learning the children used their science journals to draw pictures of apple trees during the four seasons. It was a fun way to get back into our science lessons!

Mrs. Gordon