Our Evergreen Lesson

Ryan and spent the last 2 weeks learning about Evergreens. We took walks in the woods to look at the different conifers trees, painted pictures and told stories about the trees.


This is my contribution to our lesson - circle of trees. I attempted to draw the Juniper,Pine,Fir and Hemlock. As you can tell they are very loose interpretations - it came out pretty though.


On our Thursday watercolor painting day , Ryan painted this beautiful picture of an Oak tree from our story of Why the Evergreens keep their leaves all winter.


Below is just to show you how we usually set up our water color painting area. I set in front of us just a few things related to our story for the week and have a candle ready. Our story the painting was inspired by was called Why the Evergreen Trees Keep Their Leaves in Winter
http://www.rickwalton.com/folktale/bryant63.htm

Wed. is block crayon drawing day. Here is Ryan's Evergreen picture. On the back he practiced his letters by writing out the first letter of the trees.

For our 2nd story we chose Silver Fir Cones and did a puppet show of the story.
http://www.spiritoftrees.org/folktales/karas/silver_fir_cones.html

Now outside to look at the trees:

An added bonus animal prints the first set looks like squirrel and the 2nd set is deer.

The Hemlock leaves Are flat and soft. We discovered that the woods behind our house are full of Hemlocks.

The Pine needles look alot like a wisk broom. There are only a few of these behind our house.

The view at the end of the trail behind our house:

Here is our winter nature table with King Winter and an Evergreen tree!