Tree study ideas for preschool

This week started out with another cool box creation! My neighbors brought me another box, and the cardboard corner pieces begged to become a ball track. We rolled ping pong balls (yes, I rolled some too,) whenever the box was available. I finally retired the bean box midweek, when all the beans were spread all over the floor. Twenty-one ping pong balls are easier to pick up than 3000 beans! One of the things I wanted to include this week was more science. We started learning about trees by…

We have been learning all about trees this week! We started off by reading a book about oak trees. Then the lion cubs made a simple chart showing the life cycle of oak trees. We learned about the parts of a tree and I created a pictorial input chart while teaching the students. Then they drew and labeled the parts of a tree in their science journals. Next, we unscrambled a sentence about an acorn which included "little" which is one of the high frequency words that we learned this week. You…

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I used the die cut machine to make leaves as a measuring tool. Then I measured the children and took pictures. We then made a class book of how many leaves tall they were. One page per child. I placed the book in the math center and they love it. They also got into partners and measured things using different toys. They then had to tell me that the item they were measuring was, for example, 5 bear counters long.

Whether you're just looking for some fun tree activities or you need tree unit study ideas we've got the perfect fit. These tree themed activities are fun and easy enough for preschool.