Thank you for exploring the outdoors with your young ones!

This is the second of seven weekly emails packed with nature-based activities for your PreK-5th grader! They come from Project Learning Tree and other environmental education resources. This week, we are exploring the different types of trees found in our neighborhood.

We recommend spending an hour or more every day with your children

in your backyard or in your local town or state park.

Did you miss last week's email? Visit the Tree School Archive for the previous Tree School activities. Please, share this with any parents or teachers that you know!

Please continue to use social distancing.

Have fun and stay safe outdoors!

Visit the links below for more information in English and Spanish.

1.      Create a shape necklace for an outdoor

shape hunt ( La forma de las cosas ). 

2.      Start a leaf collection . Sort your collection.

( Observacion de hojas).

3.      M ake leaf faces ( Caras de la hoja) .

4.      Collect tree parts and make Mystery Boxes

(C aja misteriosa ).

5 . Children can use their bodies to imitate

these leaf shapes. Try turning it into a

guessing game! (Imita las formas de las

hojas con tu cuerpo).

Check out this week's materials list.

Use a tree field guide or app such as iNaturalist or LeafSnap to identify at least three trees. Look at branches, bark and leaves.

Younger children can make t.p. tube binoculars to observe the differences in color, shape and size of trees. 

Did you visit your adopted tree this week?

Send Us Pictures!

Families who send photos of themselves participating in at least 5 Tree School activities before May 11 will receive

a CFPA HIKE bandana or other prize!

Send photos to [email protected] .

Photos may be used for marketing purposes.



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