Seasons

Fall and Winter were the two seasons that we focused on today for our Second Grade lesson. To start, we got to pick whatever color we wanted as a back ground, whether black, blue, etc. Then, we made the tree trunks with brown construction paper. To make the truck, we put our forearm and hand on the paper and we could make either a tall or short tree. To add texture to the tree, we safely crumpled it up before we glued it to the background. Next, we used tissue paper to make the trees. If you chose a fall setting, the colors that you focused on were warm, such as yellow, red, and orange. If you chose to do a winter setting, which I did, you focused on cool colors, such as blue, purple, and green. To make the trees with tissue paper, we twisted it around the eraser of a pencil and dipped it into glue. Another way that you could have made your tree for the winter setting was to use cotton balls, which would also have reflected the snow. Once we were done with our tree, we added to our background.


As an extension activity, you could do a science activity and talk about the type of animals that live in trees during the two different seasons. There may be animals that migrate somewhere before winter and there may be animals that live in them all year round.