Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Language.2.6. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
Have them describe the objects they feel.
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.4. Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
Ask the students what is important about the sense of touch
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
use them as prompts for writing about trees
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Writing.K.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Writing.1.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Writing.2.8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Discuss the following questions to help students deepen their understanding
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.K.1.A. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.1.1.A. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.1.A. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
record descriptive words, including adjectives and adverbs, in their tree journals
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Language.2.6. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
Lead an open-ended discussion about the objects and the sorting activity
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.1.A. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
Ask the students if they know where paper comes from
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
write a sentence that describes what is happening with the hours of daylight and the tree in each season
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Language.1.1.J. Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
show them how to use the data previously collected in their My Tree Journals to complete it
Common Core. Math.1.MD.C.4. Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
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