We started a new Unit of Study this week…Trees and Weather. We started out by each drawing a picture of a tree. We took a museum walk where we look at each other's work and admire it.
We have been talking lots lately about what a scientist is and what do scientists do. One thing scientists do is observe. Observe means to look closely. We realized we don't have any real trees inside the school, so after we drew our pictures, we went outside…like REAL scientists…and observed some real trees.
We quickly realized that when a scientist observes something, they may use more than just the sense of sight. We used our sense of touch and smell to observe these different trees around Northview Elementary. I was so impressed at what these scientists noticed…They described the trees as rough, bumpy, smooth, spiky, pine trees, tall and short trees. Such great describing words! They noticed that the trees had bark and roots. Some even had berries on them! And there were some that had lost all of their leaves, while others still had some leaves.
When we returned from our observation, we talked about what we had seen. then we labeled the parts of a red oak and a white pine tree. We noticed that even though the trees were very different, they both had the same parts…roots, a trunk, branches and leaves!
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