Materials
- Bulletin board
- Large piece of paper (large enough to cover the classroom bulletin board)
- Brown crayon or marker
- Construction paper-green, yellow, brown, and orange
- Scissors
- Glue
What to do
1. Cover the entire bulletin board with a large piece of paper.
2. Using a brown marker, draw four trees on the paper, each representing a season.
3. On each trunk, write one of the seasons.
4. Ask the children to cut or tear green, yellow, brown, and orange paper into small pieces and glue them to the appropriate tree.
5. Next to each tree, place the children's nametags whose birthdays falls within that season.
6. This activity helps the children learn when their birthdays are and about seasons.
-Ingelore Mix, Gainesville, VA
Instructions
1. Purchase a small chalkboard for each child.
2. Encourage the children to decorate the borders of their chalkboards using
tempera paints, pompoms, rickrack, and so on.
3. Write each child's name on his board with a permanent marker.
4. Tie a piece of string around a piece of chalk and attach it to the chalkboard.
The children can hang their boards on their cubbies and use them to write
reminders or messages.
