For the love of trees

We're learning about forestry in the month of January. I'm referencing from resources by Master Books, Nature Homeschool and Harbor & Sprout monthly curriculum subscription.

Follow along as we make our way through the month playing and learning together.

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In this first week of 2022, we are learning about trees.

I taught my kids with Master Books - God's design Life for Beginners. Then we did a worksheet that had the kids identifying if each product come from trees or not.

For our notebooking entry, I had the kids draw and label the anatomy of a tree with Nature Anatomy as a guide. I wrote the labels for my youngest (4) and she traced over my words.

As a hands on activity, we used some twigs, wood blocks and leaves from our garden to make a tree. I verbally labelled the parts of the tree for the kids to recap what they had learnt and notebooked about.

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On another day, we did some copywork with sheets that I had prepared.

My four year old had words for tracing while the six year old copied the sentences onto lines. I added a space for drawing; this activity had them drawing something that trees provide.

We also made a new words tree with leaf shaped sticky notepads stuck onto a cardboard tree. We'll be adding new words as we go through each week of school.

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We will be reading books related to the theme throughout the month. I look for ebooks on the National Library Board Singapore or youtube for read alouds if we don't have the books at home.

Here are some of the books that we have read thus far:

My six year old loves The Wild Robot story. He listens to the audio book independently and then I re-read the chapters to him slowly each evening.

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