The Challenge#2: Take your 10-15 minute outdoor time to study your tree.
If you are just starting out with a tree study, pick a tree from your yard that you can watch through all four seasons. Have your children make as many observations as possible, perhaps comparing the appearance to how it was during autumn. Another way to record your tree changes is to take photographs in every season. This makes for a very easy nature journal entry once you get back indoors. If your weather is too cold or snowy to go outdoors, you can pick a tree to observe from your window or you can bring in a twig or cone to study from your tree instead.
We don't have any trees in our yard but our back yard neighbor has this one.
This is from our school room window.
It's dark and snowy even though it's the middle of the afternoon.
Our tree has some cool twists of the branches.
Here's a close up of the twig we looked at under a magnifying glass.
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Did you figure out what kind of tree it is? It will be a big change between now and your spring observations I'm sure!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your tree.