Tu+B'Shvat

How we celebrate Tu B'Shevat in Israel, Hebrew songs for Tu B'Shevat - Hashekadiah Porachat, Atzei Zaitim Omdim ||  || Read The Giving Tree with felt board. Make chart How trees grow. Parent home survey about trees. ||  || Learn about recycling and caring for environment and trees. Bird Watching. Observe special trees outdoors. ||  || Fruit sorting. Sequence cards on planting. ||  || Celery stalk and food coloring experiments to show water moves up the root of a plant to the leaves. Have display tray with things we get from trees, different kinds of wood toys in classroom, different kinds fo paper. Sprout potato and carrot in water. Look at seeds and plant them. Make terrarium and learn how to care for it. Learn about parts of a tree and look at different types of trees. Make our own tree. Make bird feeders and learn what birds like to eat. Bird seed sensory tray filled with bird seed, plastic eggs, pretend worms and feathers. Look at bird nests and observe nest outside our classroom. Experiments with wet and dry feathers - which fall faster? Does a feather float and sink? Make fruit salad together. Save seeds for planting. ||  || Make bird nests with pretend birds. Make bird feeders. ||  ||
 * = Essential Questions ||= Why are trees special? || Content/ Skills ||
 * = Judaic Studies ||= Seven special fruits of Israel
 * = Language Arts ||= Experience chart: How Trees Help us.
 * = Social Studies ||= Dirt Digging Day.
 * = Math ||= Pretend store - label fruit with prices.
 * = Science ||= Chart about how Trees Help us: Fruit, wood, shade, beautiful to look at, home for birds, oxygen.
 * = Social Skills ||= Work together to make trees with all Pre-School ||  ||
 * = Creativity/ Critical Thinking ||= Deciding which tree to make and what to make it out of and designing tree.
 * = Resources ||= Computer pictures ||  ||
 * = Assessment ||= Questions and review. ||  ||