Curricular Outcomes
Trees
Our Trees Through the Seasons
- Use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of trees. Include: tree, trunk, crown, branch, leaf, needle, bark, root, seed, winter, spring, fall, summer.
- Identify ways in which humans and other animals use trees. Examples: humans eat apples and walnuts; birds
- make their homes in trees; deer eat leaves, bark, and tender twigs...
- Identify and describe basic parts of a tree. Include: trunk, crown, branch, leaf, bark, root, seed.
- Explore, sort, and classify leaves, using their own classification system. Examples: size, colour, pattern, length, shape...
- Name and describe each of the four seasons.
- Recognize that some trees lose their leaves in the fall, while others do not.
Colour
- Use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of colours. Include: red, yellow, blue, orange, brown, black, white, purple, green, gray, pink, mix, light, dark, match, primary colour.
- Compare and contrast colours using appropriate terms. Examples: lighter than, darker than, brighter than...
- Sort and classify objects by colour.
- Order a group of objects based on a given colour criterion. Examples: order objects of the same colour range from lightest to darkest...
- Predict and describe changes in colour that result from the mixing of primary colours and from mixing a primary colour with white or black.
Paper
- Use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of paper. Include: characteristic, thick, thin, hard, soft, smooth, rough, absorbent, pliable.
- Identify kinds of paper that can be found in the classroom. Examples: drawing paper, paper towels, paper plates, books, newspaper, cardboard, tissue paper...
- Recognize that paper is most often made from trees.
- Observe and compare characteristics of different kinds of paper. Examples: compare colour, thickness, stiffness, texture...
- Compare characteristics of different kinds of paper that make them easy or difficult to cut, tear, or fold. Examples: cardboard is thicker than newsprint and harder to fold...