Counting in Trees

The girls had so much fun with today's Mother Goose Time lesson, counting in trees.  The day bag today contained a My Nature Collection book for each of the girls.  There were 7 items written in the book, which the girls collected on a hike.  Then they glued the items they found in their books and wrote about them. 

We talked about how you can count the rings in a tree to determine its age.  We found some stumps and counted the rings and then guessed how old trees in our yard were based on how wide the trunk was.

Then the girls each drew their own stump with the same amount of rings as their age.  We put them at the bottom of a paper tree and then made up different directions, like count the rings on your tree and do that many jumping jacks.

spinning in circles on their stumps

We talked about how things like leaves, acorns and fruit can fall out of trees.  The girls made paper pine-cones and practiced throwing them into different sized bowls.

With Elli I used an activity from the little goose supplement.  I set out the numbered mystery bags from the nature detective kit.  She picked 5 stuffed animals and fed them the corresponding number of food from their respective bags. 

There was also an adding tree activity in today's lesson bag.  Addie thought this was so fun she asked if she could do it again tomorrow.  She would roll two dice and use acorn pieces to count and find the answer.  While Addie was working on adding, Elli was matching acorn colors to tree stumps from the Sneaky Snacky Squirrel game that we have.

making math fun

 Addie finished up with her more math and reading workbooks and we read Picture a Tree

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